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summer, 03 NEW PAGES • Of Assasinations, and Hugs Gila Svirsky, Jerusalem • Daily Life Under Occupation by Emma Rose • Interview with Isabel Allende by Laura Flanders, Working Assets Radio • This place is fragile Four poems by Marie Lavendier Profile of a medicine warrior: Camila Martinez AWe Interview with Stephanie Hiller FOCUS ON CANCUN Genetic engineering, water, will be key issues at the WTO Why you should come to Cancun! by Starhawk Cancun Update 8/27/03 by Starhawk Ecoprotest against transgenic corn by Maria de la luz Gonzalez, Focus on the Global South Killing the Ganga by Vandana Shiva Cancun and the Battle for Developing Counties' Markets: Another Form of Warfare by Aileen Kaw, Focus on the Global South  ALERT: Flood threatens starvation in Easterm India, help needed from Global Women's Strike • Girl Blog from Iraq Very important record from inside Iraq • Iraq: Democracy American Style by Medea Benjamin   • How a small group of dedicated people might actually do something? by Granny D.     inspiration • Two poems by Lisa Espenmiller • Have we entered the twilight zone? A prophecy, from Aluna • Here She Comes Two women bring Grandmother's council to United Nations by Steve McFadden, Chiron e-newsletter • Poems by Janine Canan • Wise Words by Justine Willis Toms • Two Poems by Jan Steckel headlines: Reproductive Rights Fight Moves to Environment By Cynthia L. Cooper and Margie Kelly healing • Fearlessness by Susan Griffin • The Power of Intuition by Judith Orloff MD • Shamanism and the Dream Time by Mary Novak • Essiac -- still promising, still not approved by Claire Cummings • Disillusioned? Depressed? Ask your mama by Donna Henes   features Point of View: feminist An interview with filmmaker Karil Daniels by Stephanie Hiller • Witness and Accompany April Hurley talks about her experience with the Iraq Peace Team by Stephanie Hiller • Bad news from the war zone: Reports of torture by American boys by Zehira Houfani • Protest the WTO at Cancun! Organizational info from Starhawk   commentary and analysis PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION Women's groups back Moseley Braun Commentary from Women's e-news RECALL Recall Governor Davis? No, says Assemblywoman Pat Wiggins PEACE • Making peace on the Korean peninsula Talk by Cora Weiss, Hague Appeal for Peace FEMINISM: • Reclaiming the paradigm Feminism is as important today as ever! by Lucinda Marshall • Random Thoughts of a Feminist by Nanette Patton GLOBAL ECONOMY • The Terrorism of Debt by Wanda Fish NEW ECONOMICS: • Why we need the Gift Economy by Genevieve Vaughan   The sexual revolution: Did we get what we were after? • What was the sexual revolution for women? Column by Leslene della Madre • Is this what we wanted for our daughters? An excerpt from Reviving Ophelia by Mary Pipher • The struggle over sex, consciousness and our future from Sacred Pleasure by Riane Eisler AWe profile What we have in common. . . Angela Cuevas brings women together by Stephanie Hiller   Women for a Better World Who we are! INDIA • Repression in the Narmada Valley by Angana Chatterji USA • Cynthia McKinney speaks in Harlem • Plea from Big Mountain by swaneagle harijan • Orwellian Fantasy: The Patriots Act by Angana Chatterji KENYA • Kenyan women to sue British army for alleged rapes by Jennifer Friedlin, Women's e-news ISRAEL • Update from Jerusalem by Gila Svirsky AFGHANISTAN • Afghan women's conference coming up! • A Fist in the Mouth Anne Brodsky's new book, With All our Strength, tells the RAWA story reviewed by Diane Rae Schulz • Author finds little progress in Afghanistan Interview with Anne Brodsky by Stephanie Hiller IRAQ • Rape (and the silence about it) haunts Bagdad by Neela Bannerjee • Climate of Fear Keeps Women Indoors from Human Rights Watch • What's happening to Iraqi women? They're fighting for their rights!   WOMEN'S CONFERENCES • Feminist Perspectives on Globalization • Gather the Women Congress   Women's history Incredible: A Woman's Declaration of Rights -- dated 1791   turning of the wheel • Celebrating lammas Thoughtful ways to enjoy First Harvest by Waverly Fitzgerald • Goddess of Grain The author journeys to the land of Demeter by Taylore Daniels women's spirituality • Burn, Sister, Burn "As a constellation of stars burning together, for the first time in history we can show the world what the divine feminine looks and sounds like." by Rabbi Malka Drucker