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Listening to Grasshoppers - Genocide, Denial and Celebration

Victory Speakers For Climate Crisis

How Teenage Rebellion Has Become a Mental Illness

Can Sex Workers and Transvestites Change the World?

A World Dying, But Can We Unite to Save It?

How a Community Is Saving Itself and the Environment

Why the Future Doesn't Need Us

The Choice Is Yours

In this column Gregor Wolbring raises questions about where we are going with our new technologies. He believes that marginalized people must be included in the discourse if negative consequences are to be avoided. (Reprinted from Innovation Watch.)

Environmental Nanotechnology/ Nano EH&S (Environment, Health and Safety) Bibiliography

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Globalization

Why should progressives support globalization? Read this article for an overview of our philosophy of values oriented pragmatism" and why it suggests the need for a global perspective.

"YOU CAN'T TURN BACK THE DAWN"

Huridocs

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By Layla Anwar --

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Come and see our overflowing morgues and find our little ones for us...

You may find them in this corner or the other, a little hand poking out, pointing out at you...

Come and search for them in the rubbles of your “surgical” air raids, you may find a little leg or a little head...pleading for your attention.

Come and see them amassed in the garbage dumps, scavenging morsels of food...

Well over half of our little ones are under nourished or dying from disease. Cholera, disentery, infections of all sorts....

Under nourished does not mean on a diet like your fat little kids. It means not having food to eat. It means cannot find food to eat. It means starved.

Come and see, come....

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MUST WE CHOOSE BETWEEN VIOLENCE AND IRRELEVANCE?

by Jay Edson

The Arundhati Roy article

In her essay "Listening to Grasshoppers..." (see the current article in "What's New"), Arundhati Roy describes the genocidal attack on the Moslems in Gujarat in 2002, and expresses her concern that the stage may be being set for further genocidal acts against Muslims in India. Is it is reasonable, she asks, to worry whether India, which "is poised on the threshold of 'progress' is also poised on the threshold of genocide?" Over and above this specific worry, she expresses her concern for the ease with which societies resort to genocide to solve real or perceived problems, and the regularity with which they deny to themselves and others that the acts have taken place, or if they have, that they were in fact genocidal. She observes that "hundreds of thousands have broken faith with the institutions of India’s democracy," and have turned to Mao for inspiration for ways to make themselves safer.We are talking here about

Continued -- click here.

The Village Health Worker: Lackey or Liberator?

Breaking The Grip of Globalization On Poverty-Related Ill-Health

Empowerment and Health

Health and Equity: Need for a People's Perspective in the Quest for World Health

Evaluating Cuba's Pilot Project in Community Based Rehabilitation

Communications As If People Mattered

Primary Health Care and the Temptation of Excellence: What We Learned From Maria

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The Radical Edge

Radical means going to the "root" of an issue. We have put these articles here not because we necessarily agree with all that their authors say, but because we believe they challenge us to examine our fundamental assumptions about health, politics and society.