NYMHM: Buy me a river; young immigrants; Hezbollah talkin' war & peace

Wed Aug 8 15:11:15 PDT 2007

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 NEWS YOU MIGHT HAVE MISSED * August 8, 2007 * Vol. 6, No. 32

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QUOTED: 

   "More than anything, this was a kidnapping. With it, the 
   government is sending a political message: 'Don't protest.'"

   -- Julio Cesar Portillo, husband of Marta Lorena Araujo, who
   was arrested for terrorism after blockading a water-privatization
   conference in El Salvador (see "Water Politics," below). 

CONTENTS:

   *Top Stories*
     Young immigrants take a hard road north
     Cargo security plan comes under fire
     Green mandate sparks E.U. lawsuit

   *Pollution & Health* 
     Back to the beach, with feces

   *Water Politics* 
     Buy me a river: Water privatization pushes forward

   *Middle East* 
     Hezbollah: Talkin' war and peace in Lebanon

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 TOP STORIES
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 > Young Immigrants Take a Hard Road North

   A growing number of youth and children throughout Central 
   America are migrating on their own to Mexico and the United 
   States, doing odd jobs and pickup work along the way. 

   The Christian Science Monitor reports the number of migrant 
   children increased from 3,000 in ...

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 > Cargo Security Plan Comes Under Fire

   European shipping experts questioned a new U.S. security bill 
   requiring all incoming shipping containers to be screened for 
   explosives and other dangerous material.

   Detractors point out that the United States already has a 
   screening team in place at ... 

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 > Green Mandate Sparks E.U. Lawsuit

   Latvia, Poland, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary and Estonia
   are suing the European Union after it tightened carbon quotas in
   response to complaints that it was too generous in permitting ...

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 POLLUTION & HEALTH
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 > Back to the Beach, With Feces

   With the heat of summer comes dangerous and often unexplained
   contamination of U.S. beaches by E.coli and fecal coliform.

   In California, a San Mateo County agency recently received a 
   grant to discover what's creating E.coli pollution at ...

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 WATER POLITICS
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 > Buy Me a River: Water Privatization Pushes Forward

   Efforts to privatize water services throughout the world are 
   facing determined grassroots opposition on several fronts, 
   while other countries are preparing to sell their water supply
   to private companies with little resistance.

   Fourteen activists in El Salvador have been arrested on charges 
   of terrorism for demonstrating against a World Bank-backed ...

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 MIDDLE EAST
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 > Hezbollah: Talkin' War and Peace in Lebanon

   Lebanon's conflict-driven internal politics and Hezbollah's 
   relationship with its neighbor, Israel, are having an effect 
   on the entire region.

   Hezbollah leader General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah called for 
   a government of "cooperation and unity" even as he ... 

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Editors: Julia Scott, Will Crain, Josh Wilson
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