Word: landless
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...topic. In the 1980s, Brazil's CLAUDIO CARDINAL HUMMES backed strikes and defied his country's dictators by letting leftist labor leader Luis Inacio Lula da Silva (now Brazil's President) make speeches during Mass. He has spoken out in favor of the organization of the landless in Brazil. Asked his priorities by Time, he immediately replied, "Evangelization and solidarity with the poor." Some outside the Third World have been almost as involved. Milan's DIONIGI CARDINAL TETTAMANZI, sometimes tagged as front runner for the papacy, famously blessed antiglobal protesters in Genoa despite political fire from the Italian right...
...their own right). "The ability to buy land was the reason I bought the card," says Rasmus Lisbjerg, a Danish businessman. Land ownership is, however, a sensitive issue. Thaksin is popular with the locals because he has promised to eradicate poverty in six years. But when millions of indebted, landless Thai farmers can't afford a rice paddy of their own, opponents of the scheme will dislike the symbolism of land being sold to foreign millionaires for luxury villas...
...their own right). "The ability to buy land was the reason I bought the card," says Rasmus Lisbjerg, a Danish businessman. Land ownership is, however, a sensitive issue. Thaksin is popular with the locals because he has promised to eradicate poverty in six years. But when millions of indebted, landless Thai farmers can't afford a rice paddy of their own, opponents of the scheme will dislike the symbolism of land being sold to foreign millionaires for luxury villas...
With the blessing of the BIA, these instant reservations are cropping up all over the country. The United Auburn Indian community's new reservation is in an industrial park in Roseville, Calif., just minutes from I-80, one of California's busiest highways. The heretofore landless Match-e-be-nash-she-wish Band--otherwise known as the Gun Lake Band of Potawatomi Indians--now has a reservation of 50 acres along busy U.S. 131 south of Grand Rapids, Mich. Further west, in Washington State, the BIA has set aside 56 acres along I-90 east of Seattle for the Snoqaulmie...
...Next stop: the building of a new bridge over the Fuladi River, at the east end of Bamiyan's ramshackle bazaar. When completed it will help revive Bamiyan's war-shattered economy, and Col. Walker is also using the project to provide employment for some of the dirt-poor landless refugees camped on a mesa north of town. But there is trouble: only a half-dozen men are working, thigh-deep in the cold water, shoveling out foundations for the concrete bridge abutments...