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Food Activists See Portents of New and Deeper Hunger Crisis
Posted by Inter Press Service: Haider Rizvi on August 16th, 2012
Inter Press Service: Food rights activists from around the world will descend on the coastal U.S. state of Florida next week to protest homelessness and hunger facing millions of people in the United States and across the globe.
The Aug. 20-26 protests in Tampa were organised to draw attention to the Republican Party's aggressive stance on tax cuts for the rich and reductions in the social safety net for poor and working families.
The Republicans hold their national convention in Tampa on Aug. 17 to formally anoint...
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Bolivian president denounces water privatisation
Posted by Inter Press Service: Haider Rizvi on July 27th, 2011
Inter Press Service: "Water is life. Water is humanity. How could it be part of the private business?" asked Bolivian President Evo Morales Wednesday, stressing the social and economic consequences of the growing trend of private ownership over water supply and delivery systems in many parts of the world.
Morales, the first-ever indigenous president of Bolivia and an outspoken advocate of the rights of "Mother Earth", also criticised capitalist countries of the North for failing to adopt a rights-based approach towards...