Special Currents

NI editorial comment - United Nations of America?

Filed in: UN

In memoriam Archbishop Romero, murdered in El Salvador 25 years ago.

Filed in: El Salvador

The aftermath and implications of the Asian tsunami. Includes: the Burmese migrant workers who were forgotten victims; caste discrimination in India even amid the tsunami trauma; an NI reader on helping to identify bodies in Thailand.

Filed in: Disasters India Indonesia Thailand

Desperate industry’s ludicrous claims exposed

A special on coal – including the ‘clean coal’ con, windpower in China, success in Bangladesh and activism everywhere.

Activists scrub the grubby face of globalization clean

Positive outcome, but at a cost of seven campaigners lives, killed by police during a demonstration against the GCM coalmine in Bangladesh.

Renewables revolution is there for the taking

Jorge’s community is part of the 500,000-strong Wayúu indigenous group, and it is not only their home in the northern foothills of the Sierra de Perijá which is under threat.

The seventh World Social Forum (WSF) took place this January in Nairobi, Kenya.

We arrived at the stadium where the 2007 World Social Forum was taking place.