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In "Birthing Justice: Women Creating Economic and Social Alternatives," 12 women from movements around the world invite us into their lives, sharing their vision of what the world can and must become, and showing us what they and their community are doing to build that world. From Idla Martines de Souza organizing with the Landless Workers Movement in Brazil, to Emem Okon building peace in middle of a resource war in Nigeria, to Juana Ferrer and Via Campesina turning towards food sovereignty to end gender violence, each of these women have important wisdom and vision to share with us all.
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Rony Charles, a rice grower and member of the Agricultural Producer Cooperative of Verrettes, said, “Instead of foreigners sending us food, they should give us the chance to do our own agriculture so it can survive.”
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It feels like every day we learn about another bio-fuel that will wean us off of our dependence on fossil fuels and solve the problem of global warming once and for all. It is an appealing solution, one that is sold as natural, and that wouldn't require people in developed nations to give up any of the comforts that we are accustomed to. But the reality of bio-fuels is much less "green" than the picture presented in the media, and the people who most often pay the price of large scale bio-fuel production are indigenous people and campesinos-communities who have contributed the least to the problem of global climate change in the first place.
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Doudou Pierre is on the coordinating committee of the National Haitian Network for Food Sovereignty and Food Security (RENHASSA). He is also a member of the International Coordinating Committee for Food Sovereignty, organized by Vía Campesina, the worldwide coalition of small farmer organizations. In addition, he is a member of the National Peasant Movement of the Papay Congress and the Peasant Movement for Acul du Nord. This week he will be heading North to the U.S. Social Forum in Detroit.
In Boston, the grassroots group City Life/Vida Urbana has begun a new project with Boston Community Capital, a non-profit economic development financial institution, which is allowing families to buy back their homes after they have been foreclosed by their bank. This new project addresses one of the cruelest ironies of the housing crisis: although lenders have been unwilling to negotiate to lower the capital owed by borrowers who owe more than their houses are worth, after foreclosure the banks are left with properties that they can't sell and often don't maintain.