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Vandana Shiva: Resisting Hegemony
This is an excerpt of Vandana Shiva speaking about ‘food and seed sovereignty’ at the International Meeting on Resisting Hegemony held 2-5 August 2010 in Penang, Malaysia.
Dispatch From Woody Guthrie’s Hometown
Source: Mother Jones
It’s hard to imagine a quiet town like Okemah spawning a rabble-rousing, labor-loving, leftist. But then, once you walk around for a bit, it’s also really hard to imagine Woodrow Wilson Guthrie coming from anywhere else.
The legendary folk singer’s childhood home in Okfuskee County sits halfway up a hill (“the hill,” if you ask for directions in town), one block south of the public library, roughly equidistant from Oklahoma City, Tulsa, and the surface of the sun (about an hour each way, I think).* If you drove 14,000 miles to see the home of a folk hero, it’d be more than a little dispiriting to discover it’d been turned into a McMansion with a swimming pool for the poodle and quarters for the servants. But don’t worry; Woody Guthrie’s childhood home is totally the mess you’d hope it’d be.
Blurring the Lines Between Civilian and Military Life in Colombia and Afghanistan
Colombia and Afghanistan both suffer from civil wars fueled by drug trafficking and heavy U.S. involvement.
Zapatista Communities: We Are Here, We Resist
Native peoples of the New World, even as they fell to disease and cultural onslaught, have fiercely resisted the colonial invader since 1492.
Female Refugees in Vermont Lead as Breadwinners
Source: Women’s E-News
Female refugees take many paths to a Vermont resettlement program. But a drive to support their families–sometimes with the first paid employment of their lives–buoys many along, often more successfully than male counterparts.
COLCHESTER, Vt. (WOMENSENEWS)–These days Hsar Ra Bin Ji chats breezily about the difficult times she’s survived. The 22-year-old refugee from Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, fled her homeland in 2001 and spent her teen years in a western Thailand refugee camp.