Entries from The WIP Contributors tagged with 'Economy'
Project Sukanya’s Retail Enterprise Produces Dignity and Independence for Indian Women
by Lesley D. Biswas -India- Anjali Das, an elderly woman, sits in her bright yellow Bou cart at a strategic road crossing in Salt Lake City, Kolkata. She is selling hand packed edibles, spices, jute handicrafts, dry fruit, and colorful...
Producing Fresh, Sustainable Foods on Allotments in the U.K.
by Alice Alech -France- The British have discovered an uplifting, social, healthy way to promote sustainability - care for the environment by growing their own fruits and vegetables while at the same time interacting with fellow gardeners. Allotments, or small...
In Search of the American Dream: Interview with Radical Homemaker Shannon Hayes
by Sarah McGowan - USA - If you’re one of the millions of Americans affected by the credit crunch – unemployed, uninsured and unsure of your future, or working yourself to death just to live - Shannon Hayes’ book Radical...
India’s Fastest Growing Crime: Rape and the Fight for Justice
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - Last year’s World Economic Forum study on gender parity gave India a dismal ranking: 114th out of 134 nations. Only 77% of women are literate and just 23% are employed. UNICEF’s 2009 State of...
Kashmir’s Economy Feels the Effects of Climate Change
by Nusrat Ara - Indian-administered Kashmir - After the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) admitted to a major mistake in its 2007 report, which asserted the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, skeptics and opponents alike went on...
Mine: The Pets That Hurricane Katrina Left Behind
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The most emotionally and politically-charged documentary of the year is about a surprisingly original subject: the domestic pets that were lost or left behind in the wake of Hurricane Katrina. Mine artfully portrays the...
A Brave New World: Women as Architects of Peace
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor & Founder, The WIP This past weekend I was invited to keynote the Global Women’s Conference at CSU Fullerton. It was a great opportunity for me to reflect on the journey that we’ve been on...
TEKEL Workers Stage Turkey’s Largest Protest in 30 Years
by Emel Baştürk Akca - Turkey - Once one of Turkey’s biggest public producers of alcoholic beverages and tobacco products, TEKEL has outlets and factories all over the country. But ever since the Turkish giant opted for privatization and terminated...
Violence Breeds Violence: “Afghanistan without bombs and burqas”
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - Today Afghanistan finds itself in a state of collapse and at the center of a powerful network of global terrorism. Kabul is a city filled with anxiety, insecurity, instability, trauma, and uncertainty; lost souls...
Jeopardizing Children’s Health: Indian Markets Overrun with Toxic Toys
by Lesley D. Biswas - India - The annual Bidhannagar Fair at Kolkata’s Central Park is a swarm of enthusiastic children and their parents. Amidst the tangle of toy vendors and the squeaking and jarring sounds of their toys, seven-year-old...
U.S. Stimulus Plan to Boost Geothermal Energy Prospects
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA - In an unmarked meadow by the side of the road at The Geysers, the 30-square-mile steam field about 70 miles north of San Francisco, California, the air smells like sulfur. Clouds of steam...
California’s Prison Spending Grows While the State Budget Shrinks
by Rachel Meyer - USA - As I sit and write this, a young man sits in County Jail awaiting his sentence. Three years ago he was involved in a fight while in juvenile hall for drug related charges. This...
Afghanistan: Vultures in the “Graveyard of Empires”
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan - While reports of systemic corruption and fraud are just beginning to surface in the international press as Western governments are becoming aware of it, this is old news to local Afghans. They know that...
Making Farms Friendlier: Watchdogs Expose Myth Behind “Humane” Food Labeling
by Michelle Chen - USA - A typical suburban supermarket aisle today will feature free-range turkeys and grass-fed steak glistening in shrink wrap—a sign, perhaps, that Americans are growing more conscious of the connection between tonight's dinner and the environment....
Proceed and Be Bold: Director Laura Zinger and Subject Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. on Art, Life, and Independent Filmmaking
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Amos Paul Kennedy Jr. is living the dream. After discovering his love of letterpress, Kennedy left his comfortable corporate job and devoted his life to his art. Today the self-described “humble negro printer” lives...
Another 5 years of Karzai: An Afghan-American Perspective from Kabul
by Wazhmah Osman - Afghanistan/USA - I was born in Kabul, Afghanistan during the good years, in the early seventies. Among my fondest memories is walking to and from school holding the hand of my stylish mother who was then...
Grassroots Climate Justice Groups Work for Results in Copenhagen
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Copenhagen is an odd mix of frustrating inertia and vigilant protest as week two of the COP15 UN climate conference at the city’s Bella Center continues in tandem with Klimaforum09, the people’s summit, and...
20 Years Later, Germany Struggles with “Annexation, not unification”
by Vera von Kreutzbruck – Germany - They were East Germany’s dream couple in the eighties. But shortly after the fall of the Wall, which divided East and West Germany from 1961 until 1989, a scandal would taint the image...
Paint It Black: Women in Iraq Pay for Liberation
by Miaad A. Hassan - USA - For a long time she resisted, but four years ago Amal started to wear the hijab - her bright and shining youth draped in black. She is a 25-year-old Iraqi woman, and she...
There’s Something In The Air: Copenhagen Prepares for COP15
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Copenhagen has been buzzing with activity the last two months. After the Olympics committee met here in October with a slough of American cameos from Oprah and the Obamas, the city quickly switched gears...
India Ramps up Nuclear Power with Help from the United States
by Priyanka Bhardwaj - India - At the insistence of the United States, India has been granted global “nuclear exception” status despite being a non-signatory on nuclear non-proliferation treaties, such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and the Comprehensive Test Ban...
Leadership for a Woman's Nation
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP California’s Women’s Conference, one of our nation’s largest annual forums for women, took place in the port city of Long Beach October 26th and 27th. Hosted by Governor Schwarzenegger and First Lady Maria...
The Story of Stuff’s Annie Leonard Says “It’s so solvable”: 2009 Bioneers Conference Focuses on Solutions
by Kimberly N. Chase - USA – Walking through any one of America’s big cities, the wind may brush a candy bar wrapper across the street and giant bags of trash might choke the sidewalk. Some people think nothing of...
Workplace ”Mobbing”: EU Integration Pushes Macedonian Labor Law to the Surface
by Natasha Dokovska - Macedonia - "I have 15 years seniority over the human resources officer and the highest level of education. Eight years ago, I was the head of the department, but in the last two years I have...
The Missing Context: From Women’s Issues to Societal Needs
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - Recently, I had an insightful conversation with Linda Tarr-Whelan, author of Women Lead the Way: Your Guide to Stepping Up to Leadership and Changing the World. As the founder of...
Parvati’s Burden: Scratching the Surface of Motherhood in India
by Mandy Van Deven - India - Unlike the abundance of exploration into the many dilemmas of motherhood by feminists in the West, in India the subject is so under-examined that it might as well not even exist. In fact,...
Crude: The Real Price of Oil – An Interview with Director Joe Berlinger
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Crude: The Real Price of Oil is outright sickening. Huge crude oil pits dot the landscape, natural waterways are so polluted that drinking the water causes cancer, and Ecuador’s indigenous communities’ entire way of...
Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Burma (also known as Myanmar) is a closed country, literally. Since the 1962 military coup, few outsiders have even entered the Southeast Asian country. News reports are scarce and often unreliable because the news...
Colombia’s War: “He’s giving our country away”
by Moira Birss - Colombia - The sparse media coverage of Colombia tends only to give vague descriptions of a violent country with a thriving drug trade. But I’ve come to understand in my 15 months living and working here...
From Denmark with Love:
An Interview with Filmmaker Janus Metz
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - Migrant communities in Denmark are a subject fraught with debate. As South Asian women increasingly immigrate to Scandinavia, stricter laws have been enacted to discourage the practice of convenience marriages. Rumors about abuse in...
Hit or Miss: Bangladesh’s Migrant Workers Seek Financial Security Abroad
by Stine Eckert - USA - When the Malaysian government expelled Bangladeshi migrant workers from the country in 1998 because it needed jobs for its own people, 32-year old Sheikh Rumana was one of them – after having worked under...
Colin Beavan on Life Post-No Impact Man: "No American is living a sustainable life"
by Jessica Mosby - USA - The title of Colin Beavan’s book, No Impact Man – not to be confused with the documentary or blog – has a mildly self-deprecating tone that sums things up nicely, No Impact Man: The...
The Water Front: Fighting to Keep the Tap On
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Highland Park, Michigan would seem an unlikely candidate for water access problems – the city is located on the Great Lakes, the largest group of freshwater lakes in the world. The Great Lakes are...
Between Denmark and Thailand:
Two Films Explore Romantic Barter
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - For the past two years, the buzz has grown increasingly louder about emerging Danish documentary filmmaker Janus Metz. In his complementary, almost sequential films, Love on Delivery (From Thailand to Thy) and Ticket to...
Brain Undrain: America’s Loss Is India’s Gain
by Shreyasi Singh - India - The weakening global economy is helping reverse India’s much-lamented “brain drain” as hundreds of techies, scientists and corporate managers, primarily from the US, are homeward bound. India’s booming economy has aided this influx. Its...
À votre santé: Socialized Healthcare in France
by Aralena Malone-Leroy News Editor, The WIP - France - In 2006, my husband and I decided to move from San Jose, California to Paris, France. The choice between Silicon Valley and the City of Light may seem like a...
The Human Cost of Unregulated Arms Trade
by Binalakshmi Nepram-Mentschel - India - In July I spoke before the United Nations General Assembly in honor of the tens of thousands of people who have lost their lives to gun violence in my part of the world. The...
Limiting Emissions: India Capitalizes on Natural Strengths and Community
by Lesley D. Biswas - India - Situated in the coastal regions of West Bengal and parts of Bangladesh, Sundarbans is the largest deltaic mangrove forest in the world and home to the endangered Royal Bengal Tiger. According to a...
The Great Divide: Boomers and Millenials Confront the Recession
by Melissa Hahn - USA - “I just thought our life would be different.” My mother Deborah Cruze is reflecting on the devastation this recession has wrought on her generation. In her view, the rules of the game changed when...
The Struggle for Survival in Zimbabwe: The Political Tug of War Continues
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - There have been many obstacles that threaten the already shaky power sharing agreement between the ZANU PF and MDC political parties, stalling much needed progress in Zimbabwe. Convincing the donor community to assist or...
India Says "I Do!"...to Divorce
by Shreyasi Singh - India - Divorce seems to have acquired a new label – Made in India! Data shows the country, known to be tradition-bound, conservative, and family-centric, is in the throes of a divorce spiral, with the number...
The First Shift: Domestic Workers Deserve Basic Rights
by Brittany Shoot - Denmark - In Demark, despite strict immigration laws, it isn’t uncommon to see large groups of young Filipina women congregating on train station platforms or giggling together in public. In Copenhagen, state-sanctioned domestic workers are often...
Brazil’s Homeless: Employed and on the Streets
by Melissa Costa - USA / Brazil - Regina sings to loud Brazilian country music while her skillful hands turn old Santa Claus hats into dresses and pieces of beverage cans into ornaments. Immersed in nostalgia, Regina relives her difficult...
Sustainable Civic Spaces: Finding Community at the Library
by Melissa Hahn - USA - “They start arriving an hour before we open, and by the time we unlock the doors at 9 am there is a crowd of people waiting to get in. Within seconds, all of the...
Investing Ourselves into What Matters
by Sarah-Eva Carlson - USA - The concept of investing in what matters is not new to me. In fact, it’s where my life as an investor began. I was in the 8th grade and had won a cash award....
It’s Not Easy Being Green: A Confession
by Jessica Mosby - USA - For almost two years, I have been reviewing documentary films for The WIP. I have spent countless hours in dark movie theaters so moved by what is on screen that I promise myself that...
Transforming ”Junk” into a Community Asset
by Nancy St. Clair - USA - “Going green is not going to transform our planet unless everyone can embrace the movement on their own terms and scale… If we don’t embrace reducing and reusing, the green movement cannot make...
The Battle to Stay Alive: Surviving in Zimbabwe by the Mercy of God
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - It has been a year since I last wrote for The WIP and it’s really good to be able to share what has been happening in our country. Every weekend for the past eight...
Pushing the Pink Envelope: Redefining Women's Careers in Economic Crisis
by Jozefina Cutura and Hope Lozano-Bielat - USA - Kristina was at Google before the Internet giant became a household name. She worked as a training specialist for six years, taking pride in her job and enjoying Google’s famously easy-going...
E-waste: America's Electronics Feed the Global Digital Dump
by Michelle Chen - USA - The landscape of Guiyu, a remote town in China’s Guangdong province, embodies a collision between past and future. Amid acidic plumes of smoke and vast mountains of trash, migrants scour for valuable scraps using...
More Internet Equals More Jobs: Reviving the Economy with Broadband
by Megan Tady - USA - Connie Toops would be content photographing birds all day long. In fact, she’s made a business of it, working as a professional freelance nature photographer. Her office could be her backyard – she moved...
Kashmir's Private Industry Offers Solutions Where Government Falls Short
by Afsaana Rashid - Indian-administered Kashmir - With soaring unemployment and a private sector still in troubled infancy, for the last few decades, government has provided the bulk of Kashmir’s jobs. Yet today this may be changing; on the heels...
In California, Advocates for Disabled Adults Brace for Cuts
by Maria H. Lewytzkyj - USA - Every day in Sonoma County, Michelle Sanchez gets around in her wheelchair at Grosman Apartments in Santa Rosa, California. As a teenager, she hid her increasing equilibrium problems from her peers. Once she...
Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y., Art, Craft, and Design
by Jessica Mosby - USA - Handmade Nation: The Rise of D.I.Y., Art, Craft, and Design is about one my favorite things (do it yourself) and profiles some of my favorite artists and crafters (Jill Bliss, Nikki McClure, and Debbie...
Reverse the Trend: Respect Teachers and California’s Future
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - As many as a third of California’s teachers may retire over the next decade leaving California with a shortage of approximately 100,000 teachers. While budget cuts limiting opportunities for new...
Closing The Gap: A Prep School Environment for All
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP - USA - It’s clear that school budgets are woefully inadequate and underfunded. But, will simply throwing money at a system that is flawed, broken, and unequal successfully nurture the academic achievement of...
Empowerment through Microfinance: Pro Mujer Gives Women in Peru “the confidence to keep moving forward”
by Jenna Mulhall-Brereton - USA - Elsa Gómez Mamani sits on the ruins of a stone wall on a cold but sunny morning in a field high on the Andean altiplano. We are in southern Peru, on the shores of...
Cultural Stigma and Myth: Disabled Women in Kenya are Vulnerable to Sexual Violence
by Rosemary Okello - Kenya - In the face of escalating of sexual violence in Kenya, women with disabilities are more vulnerable than ever. A recent study by the Federation of Women Lawyers in Kenya (FIDA-K) - a women’s rights...
Dependent on Desalinisation, Bahrain Faces Water Conflicts
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - Adhari was at one time a legendary site that attracted many tourists to the tiny desert island of Bahrain. Named for a beautiful girl whose tears flowed endlessly because she could not marry her...
From Marginalized to Mainstream: A Call for Inclusive Education in India
by Sumukha S. Ravishankar - USA/India - In Indian society, where everyone aspires to be perfect in all matters, learning disabilities are not discussed, even within families. Where it is socially acceptable and even encouraged to blatantly compare and contrast...
Finally, a Glimmer of Light: More Women in Leadership Is Better for Business
by Linda Tarr-Whelan - USA - Here’s a news flash: in one week, two major economic articles in national newspapers raise the same point – we need more women in top leadership. Why? Because we need more balanced risk-taking, more...
Seeking Inclusion and Opportunity, the Disabled Confront Pakistan’s Myriad Challenges
by Zubeida Mustafa - Pakistan - In Pakistan, people with disabilities are generally missing from public places such as shopping malls, restaurants and even universities. But it’s not that the country doesn’t have its share of the disabled; on the...
Foreclosures Hit Home: A Microcosm of America’s Mortgage Crisis
by Melissa Hahn - USA – On January 20th, John Marshall* joined the ranks of US homeowners who have foreclosed on their homes. The thirty-year old African-American is struggling to make sense of his surreal situation....
Paying for the Bailout: How Unnecessary Medical Procedures Are Taxing the System
by Nora W. Coffey - USA - As we tighten our belts at home and abroad, we are all accountable for the burden of national debt we pass along to future generations. Local and international relief efforts for the poor...
India's Garment Industry Steps Up Efforts to Hire People with Disabilities
by Mridu Khullar - India / USA - For five years, Jitender Kumar was unable to find employment. He gave interviews every week, was rejected constantly, and sank into depression as sources of income dwindled and he became increasingly dependent...
My Industry Is Hemorrhaging: Journalism Layoffs Eat Away at the Watchdog of Democracy
by Olivia Loyd - USA - My industry is hemorrhaging, the pink slips keep coming, the center is not holding. Almost 30,000 people in the media industry have been laid off in the past year. Mastheads are shrinking. Newspapers are...
Local Water Renaissance in France Ends Century-long Privatization Monopoly
by Alice Alech - France - Since the French revolution, town councils have been responsible for water management throughout France. Yet, most municipalities have been delegating the job to private water companies. As a result, 72% of French people use...
Online Giving Replaces Bakesales: 'Citizen Philanthropists' Contribute to U.S. Classrooms
by Janelle Weiner - USA - As school districts across the United States brace for midyear budget cuts, nervous teachers are whispering about the layoffs that could follow. In this bleak economic climate, where one state’s proposal calls for eliminating...
Flow: Who Owns the World’s Water?
by Jessica Mosby - USA - After seeing the new documentary Flow, my 2009 New Year’s resolution is to stop buying bottled water. Over $100 billion is spent annually on bottled water, but it would cost only $30 billion to...
Murky Waters: Why Privatization Is Not the Solution to Fixing America’s Aging Water Infrastructure Systems
by Wenonah Hauter - USA - Think of the last time you turned on a tap while washing dishes, brushing your teeth or grabbing a glass of water. If you’re like most people, it probably doesn’t stand out as a...
Alberta’s Government Fills the Province’s Labor Force Shortage with Temporary Foreign Workers
by Jasmin So-Armada - Canada - Walk into a convenience store, coffee shop or supermarket in Calgary and chances are you’ll be waited on by a temporary foreign worker (TFW). Though they come from many countries, they share one story:...
The Financial Crisis Hits India: Death of an American Dream for Many
by Priti Sehgal - India - The United States was once a dreamland for many of us Indians. The US label – whether American-brand apparel, a pleasure trip to the US, a higher education degree from anywhere in America, a...
Apprehension Over the Bailout Looms Large in Silicon Valley
by Genie Z. Laborde - USA - Most people do not see themselves as financial experts. However the strong emotional response we’ve seen lately shows that many people feel the government’s bailout bill reflects the machinations of a Congress that...
Violence Touches “each family living in Kashmir”
by Afsaana Rashid - Indian-administered Kashmir - Kashmir’s ongoing armed conflict over the past two decades has had physical, cognitive, emotional and behavioral consequences for everyone living in the valley. Although no official figures exist, everyone agrees there has been...
Kashmir's Tourism Suffers When Conflict Erupts
by Kulsoom Nizamuddin - Indian-administered Kashmir - - In a continuing cycle of conflict, fresh violence broke out this week in Kashmir, heightening tensions and confining everyone to their homes as a blanket curfew was put into effect in Srinagar....
The Hard Truth Behind Asia's Health Care Worker Exodus
by Imelda V. Abaño - The Philippines - For decades, the Philippines, one of the poorest countries in Asia, has provided skilled medical professionals primarily to wealthy places such as the United States, Europe and the Middle East. But as...
Even Oil Can’t Put Food on the Table
by Suad Hamada - Bahrain - They live in the richest states in the world but cannot afford to buy essential commodities because their countries were busy promoting oil related investments, rather than securing profitable food and agriculture industry. •...
How to Solve the Food Crisis: Cut trade barriers and start a Green Revolution in Africa, says Jeffrey Sachs
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - In Haiti people eat cakes baked with mud for lack of flour. In Bangladesh, Indonesia and across Africa, riots are spreading among the hungry. And in the world’s richest country, the United States, the...
Strategies for the Crippling of a Nation: Mugabe’s Ruthless Cling to Power
by Katharine Daniels & Sarah McGowan - USA - Sunday’s news that opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai had withdrawn from the Zimbabwean runoff race spurred international media coverage and outrage on a crisis that has been raging for years. According to...
Bosnian Businesswomen: Rebuilding a Nation
by Jozefina Cutura - USA - With Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign for the presidency in the United States at its end and women leaders taking charge in countries from Chile to Liberia, women’s advances in politics are making headlines. But...
Zimbabwe Introduces Special Banknotes as Inflation Soars
by Lelety Mabasa - Zimbabwe - Always faithful in shocking the world, Zimbabwe has scored yet another first, and as usual, for all the wrong reasons. • Basket case: A fruit seller in Harare hunts for change. •It seems that...
No Election Results But a Recount Begins: Mugabe Uses Violence to Reverse the People’s Will as MDC Calls for a Work Boycott
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - "The moment the people stop supporting you, that's the moment you should quit politics." These were the seemingly reasonable and even wise words President Robert Mugabe used in the Highfield suburb of Harare, Zimbabwe’s...
A Current between Shores: Leaving Home
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - They leave holding only their children's small hands in their own. A crumpled photo of a relative might find its place among their few possessions. Most often it is nothing more than a prospect—of...
Divided Opposition: Huge Betrayal for Activists Who Have Suffered for Change
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - On March 11th, 2007, 64 year old Sekai Holland woke up unusually early. She was restless and anxious because of the scheduled protests that her party was going to go ahead with against the...
Mugabe's Opposition, the MDC, Refuses to Be Crushed
by Lelety Mabasa - Zimbabwe - There was chaos and pandemonium at Harare’s city center on January 23rd, as thousands of ordinary people came face-to-face with the wrath of the police’s riot squad, who were summoned by Zimbabwe’s aging President,...
A Current between Shores: From Scarcity to Excess
by Rose-Anne Clermont - Germany - As a child, my parents told me almost every day to be grateful for the food on my plate. When I occasionally grimaced at the offerings, my father would say, “No problem, we can...
Free from Mugabe’s Grip, Zanu PF Split Is the Only Chance for a Better Zimbabwe
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - In my last article I wrote that the situation here is so dire that many Zimbabweans, including myself, can now only pray for divine intervention to rid us of this dictator, Robert Mugabe. Based...
According to Harold Bloom, “What we are seeing is…the fall of America”
by Eva Sohlman - Sweden - Harold Bloom, Yale literature professor and cultural critic, is one of America’s most prominent and provocative intellectuals. Unabashedly, he has always spoken up for what he calls “the fight for truth and beauty” making...
Worsening Economic Crisis Forces Jobless Young Zimbabweans to Leave the Country in Droves
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - On October 23rd, I sent my young sister Farai off to the Republic of South Africa (RSA) to seek employment. In 2005 she graduated from the University of Zimbabwe with a BSc Honors in...
A Journalist’s Despair: HIV-Positive Zimbabweans Can't Access ARVs
By Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - I am always left cursing and depressed and angry after covering assignments where I meet with People Living With HIV and AIDS. (We call them PLWAs here.) • Weighing only 90 pounds when she...
Old-fashioned Televised Debates a Thing of The Past: The WIP Participates in Online Presidential Forum
by Katharine Daniels Executive Editor, The WIP USA On Monday afternoon Managing Editor Patricia Vásquez and I changed gears and filmed seven questions The WIP wants answered by the next President of The United States. Reporting to you from behind...
Germany’s Political Debate on the Role of the Family
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Hamburg boasts pint-sized anti-Nazi graffiti. Photograph by Photocapy. •The prominent German talk show host, Eva Herman, has been in the eye of the storm ever since she praised Hitler’s promotion of motherhood in a...
Businesses in Zimbabwe Are Forced to Cut Prices in Half - Mugabe’s “Plan” for Skyrocketing Inflation Backfires
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - Most of us here in Zimbabwe thought he was joking when we first heard President Robert Mugabe tell the public that his government was going to "pounce on greedy businesspeople" because they were increasing...
As the Power Supply in Zimbabwe Becomes Unreliable, Families, Industry and the Economy All Suffer
by Lelety Mabasa Zimbabwe Vongai stumbles into the house and fumbles as she pulls her room key from her bra. After she struggles with the lock for several minutes, the door finally creaks open. She slips into the room, trying...
Mugabe Has Turned the Zimbabwean Army & Police Against Their Own People: It's No Place for Cowards
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - As I write this piece, a soldier is in critical condition at the army hospital after residents from the notorious suburb, Mufakose attacked him and three of his colleagues for "harassing innocent civilians". It’s...
Argentina’s Elections: Another First Lady Has an Excellent Chance of Becoming President on Her Own Merits
by Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany/Argentina • Sept 12 - Austria: Cristina Fernández de Kirchner meets with Austrian chancellor Alfred Gusenbauer. •Unless there is a dramatic and highly improbable last-minute shift in the voter polls, the 28th of October will prove...
From Hamburg to the World: Over 5 Million European Emigrés from The “Port of Dreams" Are Documented by New Museum
Vera von Kreutzbruck Germany • Emigrants preparing to depart from Hamburg. Photograph courtesy of Bildarchiv Denkmalschutzamt Hamburg •Nowadays the city of Hamburg in northern Germany is well-known for its monumental port, where thousands of containers depart every day from its...
Saving the Grain of Culture: Historic Rice Terraces In Danger
by Imelda V. Abaño Philippines • A native farmer atop the Ifugao Rice Terraces. Photograph by Imelda V. Abaño •For centuries, rice has sculpted the culture of Asia. In fact, more than 2,000 years ago in the Philippines, tribal farmers...
Mugabe's Forcible "Clearance" of 2.4 Million of His Own People in Operation Murambatsvina: A Tragic Legacy, Two Years Later
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - • A woman cries amongst her possessions. Photograph by Fidelis Zvomuya. •My conscience has not let me rest since I last visited the small mining town of Bindura, about 90 kilometers outside Harare, Zimbabwe’s...
Open Letter to the Next US President: Get Tougher on Mugabe's Despotic Government, But Send Aid for the Suffering Zimbabweans
by Constance Manika - Zimbabwe - “When elephants fight, it is the grass which suffers.” – African Proverb The Zimbabwean government introduced an ambitious Antiretroviral Drugs (ARVs) program in 2004, but Ropafadzo Kondo, who tested HIV positive in 1999, got...
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