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The great Afghan woman martyr, Meena (1956-1987) founded the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA) in 1977. We reproduce here a part of Meena’s poem which she wrote few months before her martyrdom.
One thing that gives me hope is that people are struggling hard under very severe circumstances, much more severe than we can imagine, all over the world to achieve rights and justice. They don’t give up hope, so we certainly can’t.
The seaside town of Maricá, Brazil, was struggling, but it had oil revenue. So the local government started a basic income program based on a local alternative currency.
As Rahul and others in this yatra are walking, passing through villages and towns, listening to ordinary people, it feels like a beginning of change.
The Shaheed Hospital in Dalli Rajhara (Chattisgarh) region is a shining example of an effort to provide rationality based, low cost medical care for workers and peasants and all weaker sections of society.
Review of Meredith Tax’s ‘The Rising of Women: Feminist Solidarity and Class Conflict, 1880-1917’. In telling this story of the struggle for working women’s rights, the author says that differences among those fighting for social justice should not be an excuse not to seek common ground and get on with the struggle.
The overall approach of the national movement towards foreign policy was that the immediate pragmatic interests made sense only when placed in a larger setting – of a vision of a world order based on peace and cooperation. This approach continued after independence.
This month, through a public vote, Chileans overwhelmingly rejected a new constitution that has been described as being one of the world’s most progressive charters. The vote is particularly perplexing because public opinion had adamantly supported replacing the current Chilean constitution.
On Kurdistan, one of the least reported and understood war zones in the world, as also one of the least known and appreciated initiatives for just, sustainable, equitable living.
Palestinians are resisting Israeli repression under the harshest circumstances and by every means available to them. Tellingly, the strongest of such resistance takes place inside prison walls, by gaunt looking, and often dying hunger strikers.
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