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Hassan Jumaa, leader of the Iraqi Federation of Oil Unions is facing a potential jail sentence when he faces a Basra court on Sunday 14th of April for 'OverSee it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleTanzania to evict Maasai people in favor of fee-paying trophy hunters
“The government has just announced that it plans to kick thousands of our families off our lands so that wealthy tourists can use them to shoot lions and leopards,” the Maasai responded.See it on...
View ArticleA Radical Anthropologist Finds Himself in Academic 'Exile' - Faculty - The...
David Graeber, a scholar of the radical left, can't find a job. Maybe American anthropology departments aren't as liberal as you think.See it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
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That was the message in the streets of Accra on April 12th. As the French TV coverage of the event put it, "people in many African countries, including Ghana, do not approve of the French action...
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As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleWho owns the land? Cameroon's large-scale land-grabs
As part of a trend that is accelerating across Africa, thousands of Cameroonians have been displaced from their homelands to make way for large-scale agribusiness projects.See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleDoes The Richness Of The Few Benefit Us All? By Zygmunt Bauman
A most recent study by the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations University reports that the richest 1% of adult humans alone owned 40% of global assets in the...
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View ArticleCommunity voices making a difference in Cameroon
Community opposition to the 73,000 hectare Herakles Farms palm oil project in Cameroon's Southwest region remains strong. Last week an open letter to Herakles Farms CEO, Bruce Wrobel, appear...See it...
View ArticleAN OPEN LETTER TO HERAKLES FARMS CONCERNING PALM OIL LAND GRAB IN CAMEROON
Dear Mr.Wrobel,It is so disheartening and insulting to any right-thinking Cameroonian, in particular, and African, more generally to learn that your company, Herakles Farms, is using rice and fish in...
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