Ethiopia: Removing 70,000 People for Land Grab!

Ethiopia: Removing  70,000 People for Land Grab! Ethiopia is forcibly relocating 70,000 people from Gambella to make fertile land available for foreign investment in agriculture – aggravating current hunger while laying the groundwork for future famine in Ethiopia, as people are losing their livelihoods and being moved to areas where they cannot readily feed themselves. [...]

C0P17: People’s Statement on the Durban Climate Talks

Given the directions in climate talks, and the impending economic collapse in the Eurozone, one wonders what the real agenda is or if the real purpose of the talks is the continued reorganization of the world’s natural resources for the benefit of the West and its imperial nations under neocolonnial terms. C0P17: People’s Statement on the [...]

Rwanda Wins Award for Forest Reclamation

Rwanda Wins Award for Forest Reclamation  By Hwaa Irfan   It is not often that government policies lead to sustainable development in these times at least, especially when it pertains to the environment, but this has been the case of Rwanda, an African country that has it fair share of strife. Recognized for this achievement [...]

Nature not 9/11 is the Major National Security Threat to Watch Out For!

Nature not 9/11 is the Major National Security Threat to Watch Out For! By Hwaa Irfan   As we approach the end of 2011, the U.S. has had to face many challenges’ to the world it once knew, on many levels that question the notion of security. The most well known date 9/11 that the [...]

Kids Who Get Out of Class Do Better in Class

Kids Who Get Out of Class Do Better in Class*   SAN FRANCISCO — In the New York City elementary school where Sara Shenkan-Rich used to work a few years ago, students squabbled over petty things, bullied each other, were restless in class and showed high levels of stress. But at the Sherman Elementary School [...]

To Ride with the Wind

To Ride with the Wind   Frequent visits to the plains of Giza was the means of escape from the heat of the city where one could breathe rarefied air, and ride with the wind on the back of a horse across the seemingly wide expanse where the horizon had no end in the desert [...]

Behind the Masks of the Feminine IX: Sulphur

Behind the Masks of the Feminine IX: Sulphur   By Hwaa Irfan   Three Minerals I. Natrum muriaticum, depicts a woman who is very much a product of the Industrial Revolution. Natrum muriaticum has grown up in an environment emotionally distant depriving this type of woman of what she needs to flourish in her life. [...]

Colombia: Manifesto for the Land and Peace

Colombia: Manifesto for the Land and Peace   Dialogue Is The Path – Declaration From National Meeting Of Rural Communities, Afro-Descendant And Indigenous Peoples   Translated from Spanish, Original Below   The thousands of attendees at the national meeting of rural communities,  Afro-descendant and indigenous people for the land and peace of Colombia. Dialogue is [...]