Word: localism
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...area around the town of Redencao is a particularly bloody battlefield. It is the home to powerful cattle barons who are in constant conflict with reform activists. In 2005, an American nun, Dorothy Stang, who supported land reform, was murdered. Last Thursday, as a local court postponed the third trial of a man accused of killing her, unknown gunmen shot dead Pedro Alcantara de Souza, another activist for land reform in Redencao. Police believe Souza was targeted because he works for the Federation of Family Farmers, a group that defends the rights of small producers and landowners in southern Para...
Although a rocket-scientist-turned-local-politician may not be the typical American dream, it’s safe to say Leland Cheung is doing quite well for himself. In fact, the 32-year-old graduate student has quite the resume...
...running local politics is quite different from studying outer space—a career shift that Cheung said was driven by his sense that the privatization of space travel was occurring too slowly. He began to get more involved with the community, volunteering at local church and neighbourhood organizations...
...focused on the big picture that I was missing all these other opportunities to change the world at a more local level,” he recalled. “It’s important to realize what you do in your backyard has a really immediate impact...
Among a sea of burger joints and pizza parlors, Clover, a restaurant focused on local, vegetarian and mainly organic food, will soon be opening at 7 Holyoke Street...