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EXCEPTIONAL CRAFT MADE ARTICLES FOR THE HOME Cotton duvet covers Lampshades Handloom weaves: Rugs & fabrics Throws & much more online To see the products of these people, please visit us online Hand embroidered cushion covers Ikat weaving IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CRAFTMAKERS’ COOPERATIVES, SINCE 1979  01608 811811 Hand made baskets, placemats ONEVILLAGE.COM transformative and small-group learning Complexity and Collaboration 15 - 19 July - With Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly Transform and empower your workplace with 10 principles of complexity theory. Radical Ecopsychology 22 July - 2 August - With Andy Fisher and Joel Kovel Explore a new psychology for our ecological age. The Economics of Happiness 22 - 26 July - With Helena Norberg Hodge Explore the benefits of localisation and how to make it happen from policy to grass-roots. EDITED BY MINKY WORDEN WITH A FOREWORD BY CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR Ecosocialism 3 - 7 August - With Joel Kovel A chance to envision and bring about a world based on nature, spirit and society. Plus John and Nancy Todd, Colin Tudge, Vandana Shiva, Mark Boyle, Fergus Drennan Polly Higgins and Charles Eisentein. “Essential reading” Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News Tel: +44 (0)1803 865934 www.schumachercollege.org.uk Available now for only £11.99 (RRP £14.99) from www.policypress.co.uk Responsible financial advice for a world of difference For 20 years we have been helping our clients to invest ethically, yet wisely. You may be concerned about the environment, human rights, better employment practices, or promoting third world development and co-operatives. Our financial planning service helps you invest for your future or current income needs, while taking account of your values. Collectively, we have the power to influence companies through our investment decisions. We and our clients aim to make a positive difference to the world in which we all live. 0161 233 4550 – gaeia.com – @gaeia Investment management for individuals, businesses and charities Ethically screened funds • Pensions • ISAs • Trusts Employee benefits • Life cover Gaeia is a trading name of Castlefield Gaeia Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England and Wales No. 04605261. Registered office 3 Brook Office Park, Folly Brook Road, Emersons Green, Bristol BS16 7FL. SEMSMADRP/310113
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NEW INTERNATIONALIST The New Internationalist workers’ co-operative exists to report on the issues of world poverty and inequality; to focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and powerless worldwide; to debate and campaign for the radical changes necessary to meet the basic needs of all; and to bring to life the people, the ideas and the action in the f ight for global justice. The New Internationalist magazine was founded by Peter and Lesley Adamson in 1970. Together with a range of other publications it is published by New Internationalist Publications Ltd which is wholly owned by the New Internationalist Trust and co-operatively managed: Accounts: Frank Syratt. Advertising: Michael York. Administration: Anna Weston. Design: Andrew Kokotka, Ian Nixon, Juha Sorsa. Editorial (Magazine): Vanessa Baird, Dinyar Godrej, Jo Lateu, Amy Hall, Hazel Healy, Jamie Kelsey-Fry. Editorial (Publications): Chris Brazier. Mail Order: Bev Dawes, James Rowland. 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Tel: +44 (0)1865 811400 Fax: +44 (0)1865 793152 Email: ni@newint.org Advertising (magazine & web): Michael York 01865 811420 michaely@newint.org Contract enquiries: ni_cg@newint.org Web queries: tech@newint.org Permissions & general enquiries: Anna Weston 01865 811401 annaw@newint.org News trade distributor: COMAG Specialist Division, Tavistock Works, Tavistock Road, West Drayton, Middlesex UB7 7QX, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1895 433800. Fax: +44 (0)1895 433801. The New Internationalist is published monthly except that the Jan/Feb and July/Aug issues are combined. facebook.com/newint @newint It helps us occasionally to allow carefully screened organizations to mail our subscribers. If you do not wish to receive their material please write to your subscription office. © New Internationalist Publications Ltd. 2013 ISN 0305-9529 ISO accreditation 9001-2008 Editor’s letter newint.org Are there lessons to be learned from Argentina? It’s a journalist’s nightmare. You’ve just spent weeks taking notes, recording interviews, shooting photos, gathering material for a series of articles. And then you lose it. As two muggers were trying to tear my bag – with most of the contents of this month’s main theme – from my back, that nightmare seemed to be coming true. It happened a few hours after I’d arrived in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo, across the R iver Plate from Buenos Aires. My attackers’ technique was rough, but as poor as my bag was tough. My body less so – as several fractures and a punctured lung were to testify. But the content of this month’s special report on neighbouring Argentina remained resolutely intact and on my back. Argentina has been in the news a fair bit recently – for its battle with financial speculators, politely described as ‘holdouts’, more graphically as ‘vulture funds’. And for its loud pot- and pan-banging protests, of which there have been many recently. Often the country is presented in the international media as a source of trouble. But, as this issue of the magazine shows, it should be seen as a source of solutions. Which can hardly be said for Indonesia when it comes to responding to the world’s demand for cheap vegetable oil. It’s not just the orang-utans that have issues with the creation of massive palm oil plantations – as Ollie Milman’s feature on the subject explains. It’s a question of human rights too. On a more positive note, Veronique Mistiaen meets the Iraqi environmentalist who is credited with having ‘breathed life into the Garden of Eden’. Curious? Read on. vanessa baird for the New Internationalist Co-operative newint.org This month’s contributors include: Julio Etchart grew up in Uruguay and studied photojournalism in Britain. A long-time collaborator with the NI, he has also covered events worldwide for the international press and worked with UNICEF, OXFAM and Save the Children. Mabvuto Banda is an awardwinning African journalist based in Malawi. He has written for Reuters, Inter Press Service and other international publications. He is also Bureau Chief for Malawi’s leading newspaper group – Nation Publications Limited. After a decade of creative writing for advertising, Shuchi Kapoor rediscovered herself as the ‘Girl in the Galli’. Her photojournalistic forays have mainly focused on documenting the human condition and the human psyche. girlinthegalli.com Pablo Rabasco teaches at the University of Córdoba, with a focus on self-organized citizen groups, the Commons, and the relationship between art and politics. He’s the Spanish correspondent for Uruguayan title Semanario Brecha and Indymedia Estrecho. Coming next month At the service of debt Human society is unimaginable without debt – the give and take that allowed our forebears access to a wider range of skills and goods than they could have provided individually. But it wasn’t all happy reciprocity then, either. Debt slavery was pretty literal in ancient Rome. Today we are much more sophisticated. After decades of debt traps being sprung on some of the poorest people in the Majority World through no fault of their own, debt now riddles and corrodes the entire world’s financial system. To what purpose other than concentrating the wealth of a small élite and striking at the heart of social cohesion? Why are our politicians so keen to force-feed us austerity while paying lip service to the overarching problem of inequality? And if we’re all waiting for growth to rescue us, who will give a damn about sustainability? l Susan George analyses the pestilential grip of debt in Europe and the ‘remedies’ that poison. l Nick Dearden explores how debt is the continual siphon – sucking wealth from the world’s poor for the benefit of the rich – and argues that the time is ripe for global solidarity. N e w I n t e r n at i o n a l i s t ● J U N E 2 013 ● 3

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EXCEPTIONAL CRAFT MADE ARTICLES FOR THE HOME

Cotton duvet covers

Lampshades

Handloom weaves: Rugs & fabrics

Throws & much more online

To see the products of these people, please visit us online

Hand embroidered cushion covers

Ikat weaving

IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CRAFTMAKERS’ COOPERATIVES, SINCE 1979  01608 811811

Hand made baskets, placemats

ONEVILLAGE.COM

transformative and small-group learning

Complexity and Collaboration 15 - 19 July - With Prof. Eve Mitleton-Kelly Transform and empower your workplace with 10 principles of complexity theory.

Radical Ecopsychology 22 July - 2 August - With Andy Fisher and Joel Kovel Explore a new psychology for our ecological age.

The Economics of Happiness 22 - 26 July - With Helena Norberg Hodge Explore the benefits of localisation and how to make it happen from policy to grass-roots.

EDITED BY MINKY WORDEN WITH A FOREWORD BY CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR

Ecosocialism 3 - 7 August - With Joel Kovel A chance to envision and bring about a world based on nature, spirit and society.

Plus John and Nancy Todd, Colin Tudge,

Vandana Shiva, Mark Boyle, Fergus Drennan Polly Higgins and Charles Eisentein.

“Essential reading”

Lindsey Hilsum, International Editor, Channel 4 News

Tel: +44 (0)1803 865934 www.schumachercollege.org.uk

Available now for only £11.99 (RRP £14.99) from www.policypress.co.uk

Responsible financial advice for a world of difference For 20 years we have been helping our clients to invest ethically, yet wisely. You may be concerned about the environment, human rights, better employment practices, or promoting third world development and co-operatives. Our financial planning service helps you invest for your future or current income needs, while taking account of your values. Collectively, we have the power to influence companies through our investment decisions. We and our clients aim to make a positive difference to the world in which we all live.

0161 233 4550 – gaeia.com – @gaeia

Investment management for individuals, businesses and charities Ethically screened funds • Pensions • ISAs • Trusts Employee benefits • Life cover

Gaeia is a trading name of Castlefield Gaeia Limited, which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Services Authority. Registered in England and Wales No. 04605261. Registered office 3 Brook Office Park, Folly Brook Road, Emersons Green, Bristol BS16 7FL.

SEMSMADRP/310113

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