July 2006
Issue No. 391
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If you go down to the woods today...
The carbon offset industry can’t see the wood for the trees, argues Adam Ma’anit.
10 things you should know about tree 'offsets'
Forest and climate change campaigner Jutta Kill explains why planting trees is no substitute for reducing pollution.
Forest fever
It's 2010. Brazilian activists Marcelo Calazans and Renata Valentim imagine what the future might look like if the carbon market continues to grow.
Blinded by the light
Trusha Reddy discovers why a climate project in South Africa isn’t really switched on.
Uprooted
Restoring the rainforest or destroying people’s lives? Timothy Byakola and Chris Lang find organizations have much to answer for in Uganda.
Please do not sponsor this tree
Raised voices on climate change.
Action
Don't be ‘neutral’ on climate change, be positive!
News, views, and & voices
Currents
Iran. Hear us - not our government!
The language of the arms trade
New nation falters
News of soldiers in revolt in Timor-Leste
Cholera grips Angola
News of the terrifying cholera
epidemic in Angola
Worldbeaters
Bully-boy monopolist turned mega-philanthropist: Bill Gates looks down on the world from Olympian heights of wealth. But the Vista before him is looking ever more troubled.
Mixed Media
Music
Ama by Yungchen Lhamo
Music
Rise Up by Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks
Unlimited.
Film
Wal-Mart: the high cost of low price directed by Robert Greenwald.
Film
Heading South written and directed by Laurent Cantet
Book
Body Count by Peter Gill
Book
A Life Elsewhere by Segun Afolabi
Book
Following them home by David Corlett
Southern Exposure
Housing themselves. Urban action in São Paulo caught by Carlos Cazalis.
View from Western Sahara
Saharawis abandoned warfare and eschewed terrorism, placing their trust in international law and the United Nations. Now look how they’ve been rewarded. Kamal Fadel feels betrayed.
Essay: The happiness conspiracy
Our entire socio-economic system is designed to spew out citizens eternally in search of satisfaction, argues John F Schumaker.
Big Bad World
An unlikely Second Coming in a gospel according to Polyp.
Making Waves
Annie Kajir – the lawyer who won’t be scared off by the robber barons of Papua New Guinea’s timber industry.
Letter from Mauritius
Lindsey Collen introduces two campaigning widows whose husbands died in police custody.
Country Profile: Gabon
Gabon is a good example of why judging how well a country is doing by per-capita income is just useless. It is oil-rich and yet half the population lives below the poverty line. World Bank/IMF strictures are doing their part to help keep it that way.
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Voices from the margins:
Multimedia: video, podcasts, and more.

- Poetry Slam in Zimbabwe
- The House of Hunger poetry slam held in Zimbabwe in 2006, and organised by the Pamberi Trust, showcased young artists performing inspirational work on issues from corporate power to child soldiers. The video features four of the poets.
Published by Pambazuka News.

- Iranian women speak out
- 3 March 2007, London. Women's rights activists marched through the English capital last week to celebrate International Women's Day with a protest against the misogyny of the Islamic regime in Iran and the threat of invasion by the US. Hear the voices of Iranian feminists Azar and Leila Parnian and the sounds of the demonstration as it passed through the heart of the city. Click here to learn more about the campaign.
Produced by Heidi Bachram.
- Raised Voices audio:
- Benny from West Papua on Corporate Power
- Vinayan from India on agriculture
