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When our hearts are in the Earth

Kendall Cook December 3, 2015 0 Comments

By Kendall Cook After traveling thirty hours, from visiting family in Mexico to landing in France, I convene with environmental activists whose homes are dispersed throughout the globe. Homes that are keeping the remaining parts of their hearts safe for them, as they separate momentarily from the soil that raised them, to protect that same mother that birthed them. Here, I will spend two weeks...

Selling Indigenous at the People’s Summit

Lara Shirley June 17, 2012 0 Comments

by Lara Shirley I went to the People’s Summit yesterday. It was its first day, and was inaugurated by an impressively large gathering of indigenous people. It was very powerful: they were dressed in their traditional clothes and dancing. I stopped by a few hours later as well and noticed that, while there were still some events going on, many of the indigenous people had set up around the tents...