Foxy Lady is a must-read for anyone curious to peer into the quirky littoral activities of some of the shady visitors to their little port. This is a tale that reinforces the popular belief that Darwin is probably less Australia’s front door and more its Asian cat flap.
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Roughly two million Cambodians perished in the 1975-79 Cambodian genocide. Thousands of foreigners died too. Among these were a Canadian, a New Zealander and an Englishmen, two Australians and four Americans — all of them captured while sailing yachts through the Gulf of Thailand. The intellectual authors of the Cambodian genocide now face justice at an international tribunal in Phnom Penh. For the family and friends of the genocide’s forgotten victims, it’s been a long time coming.
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Here are sounds from a voyage undertaken with Marshall Islander Ben Chutaro and his friend Doug, way back in August 2007. The idea had been to go to Mili — I had been pressing Ben to take me there for ages, to see the marine/nature conservancy he was setting up — but weather ended up [...]
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When a group of “tech” divers from around the world travels to Bikini Atoll for a week’s adventure in paradise, preparing to feast their eyes on the world’s most famous collection of sunken nuclear warships, inconvenience is the last thing on their mind. Dave Kattenburg watches as their holiday unfolds.
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While Canada has announced it will withdraw combat troops from Afghanistan by 2011, the U.S. is engaged for the long haul. Almost a hundred thousand U.S. troops now serve in Afghanistan, but the insurgency continues and expands. GPM contributor Reese Erlich visited with a group of anti-war activists, including an American marine who had fought there.
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In the 1940s and 50s, journalist Tom Patterson became convinced that Shakespeare could help revitalize his hometown of Stratford, Ontario. Today, Suchitoto, El Salvador hopes to begin a culturally-driven economic revitalization that will build on Tom Patterson’s legacy through a novel partnership with Stratford.
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If everyone on Earth earned what their labour was actually worth, global poverty would be a lot less rampant. Paying people what their labour is worth is what the so-called Fair Trade movement is all about. Victoria Fenner sends us philosophical musings on the subject from Guatemala about the personal ramifications of free trading.
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Of all the conflicts in Latin America, none was more brutal or costly in human lives than the forty-year civil war in Guatemala. Two hundred thousand people died, most of them impoverished peasants of Mayan ancestry. Today, former rebels are presenting their perspective of the struggle–to tourists.
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GPM producer Victoria Fenner has recently returned from a trip to Central America. In Honduras, she spent a few days on the side of a big mountain, gazing down on clouds soaked with rain. On the bottom of Panacam’s slopes farming communities depend on her fresh waters and are trying to keep them clean. Here’s Victoria’s story.
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Stuart Franklin is turning air miles into trees. Franklin — the founder of a grassroots carbon offsetting project in Ecuador — calculates how many seedlings he has to put in the ground in order to generate a carbon bank big enough to capture the carbon dioxide emitted by tourists jetting to the popular Galapagos Islands each year.
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An Interview with 1989 Right Livelihood Award winner Melaku Worede.
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