June 2011

Articles

• 1 June 2011, by Salma Moolji

  Panama’s Open-Pit Crisis: The Indigenous Struggle Against Mining

  Dawn cracks with the swift motion of clouds cresting over the peaks of Panama’s rolling cordillera. It is six am; the roosters are already crowing and the children, already crying in the (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Nitasha Moothoo-Padayachie

  Gender Mainstreaming in the South African Public Service

  In 1995, the mainstreaming of gender was identified as a key process for instituting change to the new South African democracy. South Africa ratified the Beijing Platform for Action, an agenda (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Liza Ponomarenko

  Environmental Health in China: Poised in Ambiguity

  A rapidly industrializing nation, the Peoples Republic of China is simultaneously lagging and leading in the field of environmental health, which specifically addresses the physical, chemical, and (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Geneviève Lavoie-Mathieu

  The Controversy of Land Acquisition in the Developing World

  Global food prices soared dramatically between 2006 and 2008 and again in 2010, which signals a new era of uncertainty and rivalry in the field of global arable land. Lack of arable land and (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Davide Mastracci

  Drugs & Justice

  In the last couple of weeks the outcry aimed at the war on drugs in Mexico has been massive, with tens of thousands descending upon the streets of Mexico City in protest. The desire amongst the (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Erin Hudson

  Anti-homosexuality and Africa

  Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill came to life in 2009. Since then, campaigns for the passage of the bill and against homosexuality have occurred throughout Uganda as have protests against the (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Wendy Papakostandini

  Death of Democracy in India, Birth of Censorship

  “What are we, Saudi Arabia?” asks Pushkar Raj, the general secretary of the People’s Union for Civil Liberties in India. He adds, “We don’t expect this from India. This is something very serious.” (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Michelle Craig and Steve Richter

  The Fate of Montreal’s Community Gardens

  The survival of the community garden known as Faubourg Saint-Laurent is at risk and the city of Montreal has a choice to make: preserve the garden or turn the land over to high-rise residential (…)
• 1 June 2011, by John Riddell

  How to Evaluate Progress in Bolivia

  

Six years after Bolivians elected their first Indigenous-led government, their ongoing struggle for national and social liberation remains a subject of debate and disagreement among socialists (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Raïsa Mirza

  Agricultural Livelihoods in Rwanda

  Land is the resource upon which many Rwandans rely for their livelihood. The stakeholders in modern day agriculture are numerous. Farmers, co-operatives, NGOs, corporations and governments all (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Isabelle Reford

  Structural Adjustment at the IMF. Literally.

  The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 187 member countries. The purpose of the fund is to promote the macroeconomic stability of the world economy by lending resources to (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Isabelle Reford, Melissa Wils-Owens

  Alternatives International Project Briefing – June 2011

  Each of the nine member organizations of the Alternatives International federation is constantly at work on a variety of projects to improve social, economic and environmental justice in their (…)
• 1 June 2011, by Kevin Kaczmara

  The Search for a Socialist Smartphone

  It may take several more years before the average citizen of Cuba, a self-proclaimed socialist country, faces consumer decisions as critical as choosing between a BlackBerry and an iPhone. If Cuba (…)
• 10 May 2011, by Noam Chomsky

  My Reaction to Osama bin Laden’s Death

  We might ask ourselves how we would be reacting if Iraqi commandos landed at George W. Bush’s compound, assassinated him, and dumped his body in the Atlantic. It’s increasingly clear that the (…)