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Mustafa Barghouti

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Mustafa Barghouti is a Palestinian politician and democracy activist. He and I sat down for an interview in August 2012 in his office on the outskirts of Ramallah.

30 Sep
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The Cage

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The largest of Israel’s hundred or so checkpoints, Qualandia — between northern Jerusalem and the road to Ramallah — is a masterpiece in population engineering. Israeli Machsom Watch activists keep an eye on what happens there.

23 Sep
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Asia Children Conflict Conflict & Environment Environmental health Health International Criminal Law Peace & Conflict Podcasts Pollution Toxics

The Legacy of Agent Orange

Thirty years have come and gone since the end of the American War – as the Vietnamese call it – and its toxic aftermath lingers on.

15 Jun
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Agriculture Consumerism Economic development Health Labour Latin America Podcasts Pollution Toxics Women & Girls

Flowers for Sweethearts

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The next time you buy roses for your honey, consider this: The cut flowers in your Valentine’s bouquet were fumigated for insects and mildew, then drenched with preservatives for the long flight north.

16 May
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Mining and Democracy in Peru

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When powerful corporations seek concessions in poor countries, communities rally around democratic institutions to defend their land and water.

13 May
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Cafe Femenino

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For more than three decades, the Central Coffee Organization of Northwestern Peru has addressed gender inequity on the farm. Putting a dollar value on women’s work is what has made a difference.

28 Apr
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Sovereign Seeds

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Small farmers in the hills of Honduras are improving their lives through seed saving and on-farm experimentation. Jen Moore reports.

21 Apr
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The Mangroves of Southern Cambodia

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They’re scrubby, fierce with mosquitoes and impossible to walk through, but salt water mangroves are the guardians of Earth’s tropical coastlines and nurseries for her fish. They’re also threatened.

15 Apr
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City of Peace & Traffic Jams

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Dar es Salaam … City of Peace on Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast. Driving a car into, out of or around the city, or commuting in one of the Tanzanian capital’s jam-packed dala-dalas, is anything but a peaceful enterprise.

6 Apr
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Dharavi

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Mumbai is the world’s third most populous city. This little neck of land dangling in the Arabian Sea is a Mecca for India’s corporate giants. But almost half of Mumbai’s eighteen million residents are poor and real estate moguls are squeezing them out.

25 Mar
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Environmental health Garbage Human habitat Human settlements Marine ecology Oceans Pacific Podcasts Tourism & Travel Waste Management

Garbage in Paradise

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It’s easy to forget – living in the middle of a continent – that there are limits to the amount of dross we can toss. But when you’re living on an island, in the middle of the ocean, trash can get in your face

21 Mar
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Inuit Hunters Go Hi-Tech

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A dozen Cambridge Bay muskox hunters go hi-tech, courtesy of Nunavut’s Wildlife Management Board. It’s all part of monitoring study aimed at conserving tundra species for future generations.

18 Mar
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Activism & Solidarity Human habitat Philosophy Podcasts Voices Warm Wet Planet

Twentieth Transmission

For all the damage they’ve inflicted on their one and only home, many human beings reflect on where they’ve gone wrong, and the major changes they’ll have to embrace in order to survive. Here are a few voices we’ve managed to capture.

8 Jan
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Health Toxics Voices Warm Wet Planet Waste Management

Eighteenth Transmission

Judging from this latest voice transmission, it seems that human beings are poisoning themselves and their planet — transforming the very chemistry of their blue-green home.

11 Dec
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Activism & Solidarity Conflict Geopolitics Human & Civil Rights International Criminal Law Middle East Voices Warm Wet Planet

Seventeenth Transmission

A former senior justice official of Earth’s most powerful nation vents his rage at the war machine his country has become.

5 Dec
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Activism & Solidarity Conflict Human & Civil Rights Human settlements Middle East Palestine & Israel Palestinians & Israelis Peace & Conflict

Hebron Settlers

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Jewish settlers in the Palestinian city of Hebron wear skull caps and carry Glock pistols. They have forcibly expanded their settlements, closed Palestinian shops, and expelled residents.

27 Nov
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Activism & Solidarity First Nations Human & Civil Rights Podcasts Voices Warm Wet Planet

Sixteenth Transmission

If there’s any hope for the human species, it draws sustenance from the collective wisdom of Planet Earth’s indigenous people. In their struggle, Earth’s future lies.

26 Nov
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Africa Conflict Geopolitics Middle East

African Lion Down

Some thoughts on Colonel Muammar Gadaffi. Under Gaddafi’s autocratic rule Libya improved greatly, especially for the poor and women, with a distribution of wealth hitherto unknown in any country on the continent. But he was a dictator.