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...Third, because information available on the web has to be prohibited globally in order to be prohibited at all, the private censors are working to bend the long-traditional rules that limit the power of courts to act within their own territorial jurisdictions. Suddenly those of us who study these issues are seeing an explosion of requests to state and federal courts in the U.S. to enjoin linking and distribution throughout the Web. So may a court in Iraq or Cuba tell U.S. citizens in the U.S. what they can and cannot read? Of course not. But a U.S. court...
...group of Western tourists kidnapped in Malaysia may have bumped into the hard reality driving the Leonardo DiCaprio movie "The Beach" - that a pristine Third World paradise turns out to be the stamping ground of elements whose agenda definitely doesn't include showing visitors a good time. Some 10 tourists from various countries are among the 21 hostages who were forced onto two boats on the remote island of Sipadan overnight Sunday by gunmen suspected of being members of a Philippines-based Islamic separatist movement. A spokesman for the Abu Ayyaf organization, a dwindling radical Islamic group with links...
Antiglobalism is big on campus, spawning standing-room-only classes and lectures and getting late risers out of bed at dawn to bone up on the arcana of Third World debt relief. "It all ties back to economic injustice," says Vaughan, who marvels at how the movement has drawn in youthful nonconformists of every stripe. Keith Mann, an adjunct professor of history and sociology at DePaul, agrees that all the antiglobalist roads seem to converge on a single point. "The students feel they are of the same ilk, but they're not sure why," he says...
These are some of the major causes, but the groups overlap, and with more than 600 organizations, endless agendas were touted. The groups supporting venous causes planned their own events on different days. Spiritual groups organized a vigil on April 9 to call for debt forgiveness for the Third World. Unions held a rally outside Congress Wednesday. Smaller groups like Alabama Artisans for Social Justice, the Anti-Boredom Brigade and the Guerrilla Gardeners found their...
...Third World Groups from almost every continent, protesting IMF actions...