Last week i heard a talk about the Maoist revolution sweeping the countryside in Nepal. François Thibault had visited the Himalayan nation last November as one of nine members of an “International Brigade,” spending a little over a week meeting with members of the Communist Part of Nepal (Maoist) and …
Les Femmes du Mont Ararat / The Women of Mount Ararat, a film by Erwann Briand France / 2004 / Betacam SP / 85 min / français, anglais, arabe s.-t.f. Contact: [distributeur] Catherine Le Clef, Doc and Co, 13, rue Portefoin, 75003 Paris, France. T: +33 1 42 77 89 …
And now at last, and with some trepidation, on to my final take on Marilyn Waring’s Counting For Nothing: What Men Value and What Women Are Worth. I have already discussed this Introduction to the Second Edition, and the First Half of this book in other posts. Suffice it to …
Dark Victory The United States, Structural Adjustment and Global Poverty by Walden Bello, with Shea Cunningham and Bill Rau 148 pp. Illustrated. 1994. Oakland: Food First. $12.95. (pb). You’ve probably been taught about systems of debt-peonage that prevailed in more sinister eras or lands. The share cropper or laborer was …
The following interview with bell hookd about Butch Lee and Red Rover’s Night-Vision: Illuminating War and Class on the Neo-Colonial Terrain, first appeared in the Winter 1996 issue of the feminist magazine On The Issues. Tough Talks for Tough Time “The transformation to a neo-colonial world has only begun, but it …