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The Coconut Revolution (2001 - 52min)

Submitted by rains on Sun, 06/01/2008 - 11:34
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Bougainville, with a populations of only 160,000 has managed to close and keep closed one of the biggest mines in the world. They have held their ground for a decade with antique weapons and homemade guns. These people have taken on the biggest mining company in the world and won.


We Need to be Told!

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 18:45
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'The propagandist's purpose," wrote Aldous Huxley, "is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." The British, who invented modern war propaganda and inspired Joseph Goebbels, were specialists in the field. At the height of the slaughter known as the First World War, the prime minister, David Lloyd George, confided to C. P. Scott, editor of the Manchester Guardian: "If people really knew [the truth], the war would be stopped tomorrow. But of course they don't know, and can't know."

What has changed?

UNITED NATIONS INVOLVEMENT WITH THE ACT OF SELF- DETERMINATION IN WEST IRIAN (West Papua)

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 12:06
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(INDONESIAN WEST NEW GUINEA) 1968 TO 1969 - by John Saltford -Introduction.....This paper, based mainly upon previously classified United Nations documents, will seek to re-examine the events surrounding the Act of Free Choice which took place in West New Guinea in July and August 1969. In particular, I wish to look at the role of the United Nations and consider whether or not it fulfilled its responsibilities towards the Papuan people.