Europe Solidaire Sans Frontières
, by SEYMOUR Richard
Mutual aid is a social movement. As they keep saying, from Los Angeles to Lewisham, it is about solidarity, not charity. The slogan is not, “let me rescue you,” but “we need each other”. Mutual aid groups are not NGOs, but networks of solidarity. The aren’t set up to collect donations in the way (…)
, by Collective for Economic Democratisation in Sri Lanka
The geography of the Uva highlands is the product of the plantation political economy whose basic systems of extraction in relation to nature and labour have remained largely unchanged since the late 1800s. The imagination in Sri Lanka is now conditioned into accepting the ‘estate’ as spatially (…)
, by SRINIVASAN Meera
“They say tea exports bring high revenue to our country. For generations we have been slogging in these tea estates day after day, but our lives have not changed in the last 100 years.”
“This is where the land slipped,” said Kiruba, a school teacher, pointing to a huge area of reddish soil (…)
, by PHILIPS Rajan
This is not the time to say, “We told you so.” But when is it not the time to warn of potential but preventable disasters, such as floods and landslides? We mourn the dead at the Meeriyabedda estate and feel the pain of those who have lost their parents, siblings and spouses. We must also raise (…)
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