Intro:

Testimony continues today in Vanouver, B.C. in

the NAFTA court hearing Mexico vs. Metaclad. Independent Media's Thatcher Collins:

The Nafta

hearing could determine the outcome of a case by the

California-based Sun Belt Water Corporation. On Monday they

asked for a dismissal of the Metaclad case. It was denied. Sun

Belt is suing the Canadian government under NAFTA for $100-220

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Tapkara massacre:

Human rights observers in India's Jharkand state report Monday that local police opened fire February 2nd on an assembly of several thousand indigenous people opposed to the Koel-Karo dam project in the village of Tapkara. At least 9 people were killed and over 22 injured.

Friends of the Earth-Australia, Friends of the Earth-Columbia, and the Permanent National Assembly of Civil Society of Columbia call upon the international community to condemn the massacre of nine environmentalists in Purace Province's National Park.

The environmental NGO Friends of the Earth in Columbia and Australia has called for the international community to condemn the government of Columbia for failing to protect the lives of nine environmentalists who were massacred in Columbia last week. The bodies were found last weekend in a ravine in the National Park of Purace.

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On Thursday, British and US officials are to meet to discuss the current economic sanctions against Iraq which have been in effect since the gulf war.

Current economic sanctions are a blanket approach, and critics claim that the sanctions are responsible for the deaths of more than one million iraqi civilians.

There is a movement toward implementing so called "smart sanctions," which would focus on arms control and allow civilian goods into the country.

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Today, the third day of testimony begins in Vanouver, B.C. in the NAFTA court hearing of Mexico vs. the Metaclad corporation. Mexico has most of this week to give their case. The current hearings could determine the outcome of a case by the California-based Sun Belt Water Corporation. (How? What is the relationship?)

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NAFTA

Testimony continues today in Vanouver, B.C. in

the NAFTA court hearing Mexico vs. Metaclad. This

hearing could determine the outcome of a case by the

California-based Sun Belt Water Corporation. On Monday they

asked for a dismissal of the Metaclad case. It was denied. Sun

Belt is suing the Canadian government under NAFTA for $100-220

Activists in solidarity with the Caravan for Humanity and Against Neoliberalism plan to disrupt the World Economic Forum in Cancun, Mexico

The Supreme Court yesterday considered the merits Kyollo v. U.S., a case challenging the use of thermal imaging scans by narcotics agents in Oregon.