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Wangari Mathaai: A Global Voice Of Fortitude
By Farah Aziz, Countercurrents.org
24 March, 2007

It had been a hectic day for her, her first day in India, but Wangari Maathai, the first African woman to win the Nobel peace prize, will not undermine any of her priorities. Invited to India by Rajiv Gandhi foundation and Indian council for cultural relations to deliver lectures on linkages between environment, governance and peace, Wangari has little more to say. At Navdanya, she opens up a bit more.

Beginning with biodiversity and the coexistence of natural varieties of seeds, she soon progresses into a wider arena of …

Appeal to Exonerate Betty Krawczyk: Who Are the Real Criminals? By Joan Russow, http://PEJ.org
March 20, 2007

One of the reasons given by Madam Justice Brown, for convicting Betty Krawczyk,was that she had failed to follow appropriate channels within the legal system. Perhaps the judge is unaware of the conundrum that opponents of key natural areas of contention face in going through the so-called “appropriate” channels.

INJUNCTIONS AS EQUITABLE REMEDIES
In 1991, A specialist in injunctive law once said that injunctions are equitable remedies not constrained by the strait jacket of the law. And that injunctions move with time and circumstances (a …

Paraguayan Women Fight to Change Agriculture and Patriarchy
By April Howard, http://towardfreedom.com
Tuesday, 13 March 2007

The state of Alto Paraná, Paraguay, sits on the triple frontier with Argentina and Brazil, an area which some Paraguayans know as the soy frontier. In the past 30 years, what was once jungle and small farms has become a vast sea of industrial soy plantations. On February 12, I spoke with three women who are working with ASAGRAPA to fight these corporations and the spread of industrial monoculture in Paraguay.

Companies such as Cargill, Archer Daniels Midland and Bunge have literally invaded eastern Paraguay, buying up …

BBC Radio Four Announcement: Mistreatment of Native American women
www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ March 8, 2007

BBC Radio Four, the UK’s most respected speech based radio network, is making a documentary about the forced sterilization of women in the United States by the Indian Health Service. We would be very grateful to hear from the women who suffered from either being forced or coerced in to having a sterilization operation during the 1970’s onwards.

It is crucial for us is to hear people?s stories in their own words. Very few interviews with women directly affected by these practices have ever been recorded, and through this …

Women Rising XI: International Council of the 13 Indigenous Grandmothers - from www.radioproject.org - March 7, 2007

Women are gaining influence as leaders throughout the world fighting for peace, justice, the environment and civil society.

In this program, we visit with three eloquent members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers. The Council is a global alliance of elder women healers who represent more than 900 years of collective wisdom and traditions. The women come together to speak in one voice, with one very simple, yet urgent message: we must take care of our Mother, the Earth, for the next …

Karen Indigenous Women Directly Targeted in Burmese Regime’s Terror Campaign in Karen State
Press Release, February 12, 2007

State of Terror, a report launched today by the Karen Women’s Organization, provides graphic evidence of the widespread terror tactics being employed by the military regime’s troops against women across Burma’s Karen State.

As the atrocities continue, the KWO appeals for concerted international pressure on the regime to bring about an immediate nationwide ceasefire and withdrawal of Burmese Army Troops from the ethnic states.

“We deeply regret the veto by China and Russia and SouthAfrica’s vote against the UN Security Council Resolution on Burma …

Civil War in Burma, Karen Women in Exile
From: Making Contact
January 24, 2007

Burma is a country run by one of the strictest military juntas in the world. For nearly 60 years, the country has been embroiled in civil war. More than 1 million people have been displaced and hundreds of thousands of ethnic minorities have fled to refugee camps in neighboring Thailand escaping forced labor, rapes, killings and imprisonment. The situation has deteriorated so badly that last September the U.N. Security Counsel added Burma to its formal agenda.

The Karen tribe is the largest ethnic minority in Burma. They continue to …