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Your report noted that Calderon wants to work with the U.S. to create jobs for rural Mexicans. As a legal immigrant to the U.S., I am sad that both the U.S. and Mexico exploit laborers who are desperate for jobs. Fix the fences, enforce immigration laws, and start treating people with respect and dignity. Kim Weidenbach, PASADENA, CALIF...
Though often educated and deeply thoughtful, many PWs say they can't partake in theological debates at church lest their opinions be interpreted as their husbands'. There, too, the Internet provides an outlet. Lora Horn, 35, a mother of two from Las Vegas, moved to rural Garrett, Ind., in 2004. "I never fit into the mold," says the former social worker. "I was a tomboy. I'm not domestic. I'm intellectual. I'm an introvert. I'm a person who likes to buck the norm." She began blogging a year ago as RebelliousPastorsWife to "have the conversations I wasn...
...drift of rural families into cities in search of better jobs and improved living conditions is part of a global trend, but in Fiji the country's land-ownership policies have exacerbated the problem. Laws passed in the 1970s obliged non-indigenous farmers to take 30-year leases on the land they worked. As the leases expired, the Government encouraged indigenous Fijian landowners not to renew them, but instead to farm the land themselves. The non-indigenous farmers were given cash payouts to leave, but their workers received nothing...
...Although it's hard to picture the self-styled champion of rural France as a reggae fan, anti-globalisation candidate José Bové has clearly taken to this tribute track, "Si j'osais José Bové Président" It's now played at all his campaign rallies...
...from returning to France for five years," notes Rochefort - who also thinks the sudden roundup was politically motivated. "He's trying to seduce voters from the extreme right with his anti-immigrant message, and this was supposed to show them, ?See, I even root them out in little remote rural towns of Brittany...