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...CAMPS. I'm going to have a rigorous reform agenda in which we will introduce the structural change our country has lacked for so long. The renewal of Liberia means a new political order, a new social order, a new economic order. It involves far-reaching reforms--constitutional reform, land reform, judicial reform, civil service reform and decentralization of power...
...media have kept busy reporting on numerous environmental protests, several of which have spiraled out of control, resulting in beatings, arrests, even deaths. In wealthy Zhejiang Province, for example, thousands of people mobilized throughout the spring and summer to protest chemical, pharmaceutical and battery factories that were polluting their land and water. In one case in April, up to 30,000 people living in and around the village of Huaxi reportedly set roadblocks, smashed windows, overturned scores of police cars and sent at least 30 police to the hospital...
...White Brother was here, and as he had promised during his last visit on earth, he would save them," Tan writes of the Karen perspective. "He could manifest weapons. He could make the tribe invisible. They would then ? walk openly without being shot, until they reached a patch of land, the promised land." The tribe is so hospitable that the Americans do not realize they have been kidnapped, thinking they're stranded merely because a bridge is out. They settle into a primitive but largely idyllic existence, despite a few cross-cultural miscues. (The delicious crunchy things turn...
...produce much at home. In the western Mali district of Kayes - where Waly's village of Ambadedi is located and where most migrants hail from - the region has done so well that farmers use remittances as a crutch. Studies have shown that they spend less time on their land than farmers in other parts of Mali: there is more money to be made by migrating to Europe. "You see poverty other places, but here, you see money," says Abdel Kader Coulibaly, a bank manager in Kayes. He says migrants' families spend all they get, rather than investing it to generate...
...accounts. Fresh off the plane, I attended a dreadful panel on “Indigenous Women and European Men.” It started with a red-haired Englishwoman who struck a grave face and tone and peering over her grandmotherly spectacles began, “Colonizers saw the land as a passive, indigenous woman open to the penetration of European men.” Colonial historians have an enduring fondness for imagery of rape, and to satiate it, there followed half a dozen such turns of phrase. And, as is academics’ wont, the concluding note...