Hunger, Food Security, and the African Land Grab
If you were organizing dinner parties for the world, you would need to put out 219,000 more place settings every night than you had the night before.1 That is how fast the Earth’s population is
Published : 16 September 2013
Durban Officials Face Imprisonment for Cato Crest Evictions
SERI represents residents of the Cato Crest informal settlement whose shacks were illegal demolished by eThekwini Municipality and the Land Invasion Unit. On 1 and 2 September 2013 the municipality illegally demolished shacks at the
Published : 12 September 2013
Tokyo 2020
A year ago I wrote a post predicting that Istanbul would get saddled with the 2020 Olympics. That was before I had been to Istanbul. That was before Taksim. That was before the Vinegar Revolt.
Published : 10 September 2013
Romania: Protests Erupt over Canadian Mine
Rosia Montana--"They take our gold, and we get cyanide," they shout. Demonstrators that range from environmentalists to parents with their children, students, poorly clad pensioners, and well-off looking middle class citizens have been protesting in
Published : 04 September 2013
China: Bulldozer Kills Girl in China amid Land Grab Dispute
A bulldozer killed a four-year-old girl in southeastern China after her family resisted a land grab, a major cause of unrest in the country, Chinese media reported on Thursday, sparking online outrage. Hong Xiaorou was killed
Published : 29 August 2013
India: Villagers Facing Mass Land Confiscation
250 acres of villagers land were destroyed and 30 acres of land were confiscated by the Chinese Ngwe Kabar Company as they dug up silicon stone in Pankhar Village. 250 acres of land from Pankhar Village
Published : 26 August 2013
Myanmar: Ks of Farmers Evicted from Dam Site
PAUNGLAUNG VALLEY, Shan State — Since January, approximately 8,000 residents in central Burma have been forcibly displaced from their homes and farmland to make way for the Upper Paunglaung Dam, a massive hydropower project being
Published : 24 August 2013
Canada: Resist the Money Grab by MMF
The Manitoba Metis Federation enjoyed a significant decision of the Supreme Court of Canada a few months ago. By a controversial majority decision, the court provided the MMF with a declaration that "the transfer of
Published : 23 August 2013
Iraq: Kurds Resist U.S. Oil Co. Land Confiscation
[Note: For security reasons, the team is withholding names of the villages and the oil company for the time being. More details will follow in the coming weeks.] A couple weeks ago, our team learned of
Published : 20 August 2013
