by Susan Scheid | Mar 25, 2014 | Food & Farm, Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance, Redev
Wang Ping is the founder and director of the Kinship of Rivers project, which builds a sense of kinship among the people who live along the Mississippi and Yangtze Rivers through the exchange of gifts of art, poetry, stories, music, dance, and food. Her publications...
by Kyi May Kaung | Jun 7, 2013 | Uncategorized
This morning a close colleague and Burma Watcher was approached by men we have never heard of before –To all the men and women who sing change change change Mee-ahn mar -we never heard of you before30 years in the Burma Watcher fieldfirst learn the correct name...
by Dan Vera | May 17, 2013 | Uncategorized
We’ll start with the gold of Havana’s women,who hearing you needed money for your revolutionary waroffered their wedding rings and necklaces,to be melted,to finance your white-wigged revolutionthat was so very boldbut so very poor.The skeleton of...
by E. Ethelbert Miller | Mar 21, 2013 | War & Peace
What do torturers do when they return home?Do they make love to their wives and play with their kids?What hobbies do they have?Do they wash the car and take out the trash?Do they change their underwear?What do torturers see when they look in the refrigerator?When...
by Fouad Pervez | Feb 26, 2013 | War & Peace
The latest Academy Awards ceremony, which crowned the well-intentioned but fatally flawed Argo as the year’s best film, merely formalized the nearly universal acclaim that director Ben Affleck has received for his gripping CIA drama set in Iran. It also said a...
