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27-12-10

The Curse of the Corn People Carmen Cordero Amores

More than half of the population of Guatemala is indigenous, heirs of an ancient culture and trustees of centuries of  Read more…

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27-12-10

Shell’s Arctic Drilling Will Destroy Our Homeland And Culture Rosemany Ahtuangaruak

“Reprinted with implicit permission from Climatestorytellers.org, as per their stated policy for not-for-profit publications.” This week families across the country  Read more…

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27-12-10

A Mask Stan Swamy

Unknown to perhaps many of us in this part of the world, there is a significant population of aboriginal people  Read more…

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27-12-10

Opinion Rana Bose

I have a Question…… Twenty-nine organizations in Canada came together on November 16th, 2010 to issue a joint statement in  Read more…

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27-12-10

Norman Bethune and Montreal Anne Cimon

Norman Bethune was a world-reknowned Canadian surgeon, a passionate humanitarian, and a brilliant medical innovator. Born in Ontario in 1890,  Read more…

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28-09-10

Tunes from a Palestinian Symphony Dr. Samia Costandi

  I am walking the streets of Ras Beirut where I grew up, where my parents’ home still exists in  Read more…

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28-09-10

Israeli Apartheid? Michael Neumann

  Israel is losing the propaganda war.   Mainstream newspapers now provide ample reason to conclude that Israel oppresses the Palestinians  Read more…

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28-09-10

Palestinians: descent into Hell — a personal reflection Jooneed Khan

  Rezeq Faraj and the “Descent into Hell” It was when I read Palestine: le refus de disparaître, the 2005  Read more…

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28-09-10

My summer at camp Rola Harmouche

   Why? Asked many family and friends in Lebanon when I told them that I was volunteering at the Shatila  Read more…

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28-09-10

In Bil’in and in Palestine the Resistance Clearly Shows Mary Ellen Davis

  Bil’in, situated to the west of Ramallah, is a village typical of the eastern Mediterranean from many points of  Read more…

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28-09-10

Palestine and Israel: Reflections on the Genesis of Social Activism Joy Moore

    A colleague of mine suggested that I contribute an article on my interest in the question of Palestinian rights  Read more…

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28-09-10

The Challenges and Benefits of Dialogue Ronit Milo

  Media coverage of the peace talks presently underway in Washington is generally pessimistic about the prospects of success. It  Read more…

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28-09-10

Dialogue is a Precondition to Negotiations Deena Roskies

  One party asks for more than he is willing to settle for. The other party offers less than he  Read more…

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26-06-10

Deciding Which Path To Take – Our Critical Juncture On The River Of Time Avrom Shtern

                 Unpaved paths have been part of human activity for at least 12,000 years, and the histories of roads and  Read more…

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26-06-10

“It’s about ecology, stupid!” David Fletcher

  With apologies to Bill Clinton and Jean Charest              The word is in: we are now deep into the  Read more…

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26-06-10

What it is we are fighting for Malcolm Reid

      When I was a boy, my parents often reminded me of the reality of the working class. Its work,  Read more…

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26-06-10

Green Space, Earth, and Essence Patrick Barnard

  I – Every Piece of Green on Earth “Everything come up out of ground –language, people, emu, kangaroo, grass.  Read more…

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26-06-10

BP – Beyond Perfidy Rana Bose

                    One does not have to be a militant environmentalist. Neither does one have to be a duck, a penguin  Read more…

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26-06-10

Green Energy in California: Power and Politics Subir Das

In 1996, legislation was passed in the state of California that deregulated the production and sale of electric power for  Read more…

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26-06-10

Myth reinvented: the Urban Fox John Fretz

  The British, ever adroit in matters related to furry-four footed creatures (except perhaps for the English beaver that disappeared  Read more…

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26-06-10

Living in Traffic Maria Worton

  I have a relationship to traffic, similar to the kind of relationship a goldfish has to the water in  Read more…

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25-06-10

The rural West Island: Montreal’s lost patrimony George Vassiadis

  Exactly two decades ago I left the West Island to come and live in the United Kingdom.  Like many  Read more…

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31-03-10

Sodi Sambo: The Woman Who Cannot Be Forgotten Priyanka Borpujari

  Why would one state government spend sleepless nights trying to provide maximum security to someone whose mere existence is  Read more…

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31-03-10

George Sand : une femme remarquable / A remarkable woman Irène Johnson

English version below. An extract from the documentary George Sand: The Story of Her Life produced by CNDP 2004, Montreal (Quebec)  Read more…

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31-03-10

Doting daughters. You haven’t come a long way, baby! Mirella Bontempo

  After years of denouncing Mother Country’s contempt for its emigrants stuck in the 1950s, I am airing the dirty  Read more…

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30-03-10

My First Time with Salman Rushdie Sana Saeed

  Amongst the most memorable names  that I heard as a child, growing up in a South Asian Muslim household,  Read more…

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01-12-09

Because it opens your Heart Maya Khankhoje

                    Literature has always been important, is still important and will continue to be important for as long as human  Read more…

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01-12-09

“Learning my ABCs” Durga Chew-Bose

  Often inflated and possibly misleading, the titles I chose for my college Lit essays were always picked last and  Read more…

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01-12-09

Proverbs writ large Anna Fuerstenberg

The novel encourages – a form of storytelling that promotes our sense of being individual, but never forgetting the bond  Read more…

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26-09-09

Homelessness – A Matter Of Choice Bernard Miller

  If homelessness of an individual or family is a tragedy, homelessness of millions of people must multiply that tragedy  Read more…

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