Word: ruralization
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...grew up convinced that my parents' partnership grew out of a common, materialistic goal - a shared desperation to leave behind the rural poverty they had grown up with - rather than a desire to spend the rest of their lives with one another. They weren't high-school sweethearts like the parents of the girl who lived across the street. They didn't elope and get married in Las Vegas like the parents of my best friend in high school. They didn't celebrate their anniversaries with fancy dinners, diamonds that last forever or romantic getaways. When friends asked...
...inflaming the situation may be precisely what Mugabe has in mind. Playing to the landless rural poor by encouraging land invasions has been widely interpreted as an election ploy to reverse the declining support of a president who has ruled Zimbabwe through its 20 years of independence. With parliamentary elections likely by May, Mugabe's support in urban areas is down to about 25 percent. But the fact that 70 percent of the country's best farmland is owned by some 4,000 white commercial farmers gives the issue some resonance with the country's impoverished rural majority...
...land reform program, but only after the invasions are ended. Mugabe critics often point out that in many of the instances where the government has bought out white farmers, the land has found its way into the hands of the president's cronies rather than being redistributed among the rural poor. Western donors, on whom Zimbabwe is increasingly dependent, weren't impressed either, with the IMF suspending aid until Mugabe restores the rule of law. But that may not happen until after the ruling party feels confident about the outcome of the election...
...after moving to California, Bellow continued his advocacy on a larger scale. He helped to create and run the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation (CRLAF) from...
...York is surely an irascible city, but similar classes are cropping up in much quieter places, towns like Medway, in southern Massachusetts, and Sumter, in rural South Carolina. In Chicago, Leonard Ingram, a.k.a. Bhagwan Ra Afrika, incorporates "Western, Eastern and African approaches" into anger treatments. And Thomas Nelson Publishers of Nashville puts out an Anger Workbook that reminds enraged Christians that Jesus said we should love our neighbors as ourselves...