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BIRTHING JUSTICE: Without Firing an Arm, We Created a Revolution

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BIRTHING JUSTICE: Without Firing an Arm, We Created a RevolutionBy Beverly Bell April 6, 2012Welcome to Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives. The series features twelve…Continue

Tags: movement, workers', land, reform, grabs

BIRTHING JUSTICE: Women in Peace-Building: Peace amidst War for Resource Control

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BIRTHING JUSTICE: Women in Peace-Building: Peace amidst War for Resource Controlby Beverly Bell, Other WorldsWelcome to Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives. The series…Continue

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Uprooting Racism in the Food System: African Americans Organize

Setting up bee hives at D-Town Farm in Detroit. The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network runs D-Town Farm, teaches gardening skills, and educates about the food system. They also work on policy change and dismantling racism to build food security in Detroit’s Black community. Photo courtesy of Detroit Black Community Food Security Network.By Beverly Bell, Tory Field, and Deepa PanchangA shovel overturned can flip so much more than soil, worms, and weeds. Structural racism - the ways in…See More

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SISTER SIMONE: EULOGY FOR A HAITIAN HEROINE

By Beverly BellMarch 8, 2013On this International Women's Day, we rerun a 2005 piece on one of our greatest heroines, Marie Simone Alexandre. Though she died eight years ago, her life and message remain as powerful and inspirational today as any we know. "It was thanks to God and Sister Simone." I heard this over and over in the mid-1990s as I was interviewing rape survivors in one of Port-au-Prince's shantytowns. The women were battling the devastating effects of rape, employed as a weapon of…See More

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"Haiti is a unique situation and geo-political stress on development experts who have perhaps little experience with Reconsturction. Its like sending a plumber to fix the electricity. Reconstruction experts “my wife Dr. Sarah Jane Meharg…"

Mar 5

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"That article has clearly explained the chaotic and untrustworthy positions of the NGO's in Haiti and I am glad that this book is written by a non-Haitian to exclude any bias analysis. Can't wait to read it and hopefully the suggestions of…"

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Lisa Dittmar commented on Deepa Panchang's blog post Food and Land at the Service of People: An Interview with Peter Rosset

"We definitely need to take a good look at how subsidies are promoting the wrong behavior, whether it be regarding exports or inequality or environment. However, to say that we should or could eradicate industrial agriculture is itself naive and…"

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Food and Land at the Service of People: An Interview with Peter Rosset

A Via Campesina march in Hong Kong, 2005, demanding an end to WTO trade negotiations over agriculture. Photo courtesy of Via Campesina.Part 3 of the Harvesting Justice Series By Tory Field and Beverly BellAgricultural economist Peter Rosset is with the Center for the Study of Rural Change in Mexico and the Land Research Action Network. He is also a member of the technical support team of Via Campesina. Beverly Bell talked with Peter Rosset in Havana in 2009; they updated the interview in…See More

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Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain - Food Sovereignty

The impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement has been devastating to Mexican farmers. In 2008, farmers’ organizations drove their tractors on the route Pancho Villa took during the 1910 revolution, traveling from the U.S. border to Mexico City as part of the “Without corn there is no country” and “The land can’t take…See More

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Please feel free to provide a short bio about yourself or the work of your organization (no more than 3 paragraphs): Other Worlds is a women-driven, multi-media education and movement-building collaborative. Other Worlds inspires hope and knowledge that another world is possible, and helps build it. We compile and bring to light political, economic, social, and environmental alternatives that are flourishing throughout the world, and inspire and help the public throughout the Americas open up new pathways to adapt and replicate them. We support the global movements that are propelling the alternatives. In the U.S., we seek to draw in new participants and strengthen existent efforts for economic justice, environmentally sound systems, and meaningful democracy.

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Uprooting Racism in the Food System: African Americans Organize

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SISTER SIMONE: EULOGY FOR A HAITIAN HEROINE

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By Beverly Bell

March 8, 2013

On this International Women's Day, we rerun a 2005 piece on one of our greatest heroines, Marie Simone Alexandre. Though she died eight years ago, her life and message remain as powerful and inspirational today as any we know.

"It was thanks to God and Sister Simone." I heard this over and over in the mid-1990s as I was interviewing rape survivors in one of Port-au-Prince's…

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A TALE OF TWO NGO’S: IN HAITI, DISASTER AID OR AID DISASTER?

Posted on March 5, 2013 at 11:31am 2 Comments 3 Likes

By Beverly Bell

March 5, 2013

Three years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, what has become of the commitments made on Red Cross billboards, the promises from telethon hosts, the…

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Women's Work: Gender and the Global Food System

Posted on March 4, 2013 at 2:17pm 0 Comments 0 Likes

In the Mexican state of Chihuahua, Rarámuri women choose corn to save for next year’s planting. They just finished participating in a farmer-to-farmer workshop on seed selection. Photo © David Lauer.

By Tory Field and Beverly Bell

“We, women from more than 40 countries, from different indigenous peoples of Africa, the Americas, Europe, Asia and Oceania, have gathered together to…

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