Haiti: Persecution and death threats to camp activist & human rights lawyer
Haiti: Persecution and death threats to camp activist & human rights lawyer, Africa social justice, politics and literature.See it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleThe time of the nation: negotiating global modernity | openDemocracy
Arabica Robusta's insight:James Scott's strategic compliance (Domination and the Arts of Resistance) seems relevant here. At this moment, it may not be possible to do away with borders. However, we can...
View ArticleEnd intimidation around Sierra Leone oil palm project
Groups around the world accuse European business magnates Vincent Bolloré and Hubert Fabri of using intimidation to silence local opposition to an African land grab.See it on Scoop.it, via...
View ArticleEcuador's New Deal: Nothing Succeeds Like Success | Op-Eds & Columns
It's not luck but good financial judgment that has set the president on the path to victory in forthcoming electionsSee it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleBassey: 20 years of ERA’s struggle
Erstwhile Executive Director of the Environmental Rights Action/Friends of the Earth Nigeria (ERA/FoEN), Nnimmo Bassey, has said that the secret of the organisation’s success over the past two decades...
View ArticleCorporates aren't the only solution to conflict gold
OECD's rules governing the export of conflict minerals fail to engage small-scale miners and the problem, as Greg Valerio discovers on a trip to the DRCArabica Robusta's insight:This article brings up...
View ArticleThe Missing Ethics of Mining | Ethics & International Affairs
Shefa Siegel on the ethics of mining.See it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleMbalam Project in Limbo After Hanlong Chair Arrest
... (Business in Cameroon) - There are renewed doubts about the takeover deal of Sundance resources (owner of Mbalam project) by China's HanlongSee it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleUnderstandingSociety: What is "critical" about critical realism?
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View ArticleDisplacement, intimidation and abuse: land loyalties in Ethiopia | openDemocracy
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View ArticleThe new propaganda is liberal. The new slavery is digital
As Leni Riefenstahl said: "Propaganda always wins if you allow it".See it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleCameroonian filmmaker goes missing
Richard DjimeliA Cameroonian filmmaker has gone missing after releasing a movie that bitterly condemns dictatorship as authorities enforce an informal ban onSee it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleAll dissidents now: Russia's protests and the mirror of history | openDemocracy
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View ArticleJordan Flaherty, "World Social Forum Opens in Tunisia"
Chronicling the Crisis of the Working ClassSee it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleThe Assassination of Martin Luther King and the Peace Movement »...
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View ArticleSocial movement builder Simon Willis - "People don’t change because of facts,...
We catch up with Simon Willis from Purpose, an incubator for social movements, on why startups need to make a change...See it on Scoop.it, via Transformative Space
View ArticleHassan Jumaa Awad: Working class hero facing jail for oil union organizing
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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