Building a Post-Extractivist Future for Latin America
The region faces a choice between top-down “green growth” and bottom-up efforts to transform economies.
Blogging the Rio+20 Earth Summit for the Rest of Us: The Great Moving Nowhere Show
The Rio declaration contains 283 paragraphs of blank prose that “reaffirm,” “note,” and “acknowledge” a long shopping list of activities, but “commit” to virtually nothing.
Public Scholar Series: Seed As Her Sword – From the Global South to the Black Belt South
Join us when three DC-based activists from Rural Coalition/Coalición Rural will explain how women, spirituality, and culture have played and continue to play a central role in land movements and the ways international trade agreements target farmer communities. Parts of the film Our Land, Our Lives: The North Carolina Black Farmer’s Experience will be shown.
An Appeal to U2: Who is More Rooted?
Anti-poverty crusaders like Bono call critical attention to what’s wrong with the world. But what if we also showed who’s doing it right?
How Much Less Revolutionary Could the Revolutionary Guard Be?
Iran’s Revolutionary Guard gives Islam a black eye.
Proclaiming One’s Supremacy Doesn’t Become a Supreme Leader
The Supreme Leader is no more supreme than the pope is infallible.
Africa’s Unnatural Disaster
Economic policy is to blame for hunger in Africa.
Africa: Green Revolution or Rainbow Evolution?
Kofi Annan and the Bill Gates want to bring the Green Revolution to Africa. Will this herald a new age for African agriculture or the destruction of the continent’s biodiversity?