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Referring to the recent gay bashing at a Jamaican university, Active Voice republishes a poem by Tanya Shirley as “a timely intervention into the barbarism threatening to drown us.”

Respecting the soil is fundemental to us. It is where we get our food from and how we will provide for our children

Suelia explains [fr] how the agroecology approach (bringing ecological principles to bear in agroecosystems) has helped many in her community grow a sustainable business model by diversifying their products and therefore letting the soil rest. Thee programme is also suported by french NGO CCFD-terre solidaire.

[It is] a racist, sexist colonial throwback which draws on a long history of the sexualisation, commodification and thingification of the brown woman’s body.

Code Red is trying to raise awareness of the dangers of sexist advertising.

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How will Barack Obama's re-election affect U.S. policy toward Latin America?

The realistic answer is that policy will not be affected greatly, and the change that occurs will be related more to domestic constituencies than foreign ones. [...] In short, at this point we don't have any reason to believe there will be any significant policy shifts.

Greg Weeks blogs at Two Weeks Notice.

On Ivory Pomegranate, an expat blogger shares her experience of being pregnant in Kyrgyzstan. She writes that seven months of prenatal care in a good clinic in Bishkek costs about 10 times less than a single check-up in US. But in Kyrgyzstan, one needs to understand that many medications prescribed by doctors are not only unnecessary but also dangerous at times.