a journey of transformation
This young girl is over here singing about: Loving her natural hair: it’s NOT dry/hard, it’s her crown as a queen Being sick of racism Pride in her Blackness: referring to herself explicitly as Black (preta) rather than one of the endless other terms that refer to color (mulata, moreninha) but try to maintain distance…
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There have been so many articles written about this man in the last few days that it’s making my head spin trying to keep up with them. Then throw the Facebook newsfeed on top of that and all of the debate back and forth about each article that comes up. But in all of that, two…
Read MoreThis has been a resounding cry for the last 3 weeks as I’ve participated in the International People’s Health University (IPHU), the South African National Health Assembly (NHA), and the Third People’s Health Assembly (PHA3), all here in Cape Town. The phrase means: Power to us! And it is shouted as if it were a…
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Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra = The Landless Workers’ Movement
The website’s in Portuguese but you should check out MST online through their website or other sites. This movement is amazing and powerful. I just spent two days with them on their land and in their houses.
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra
A different website in English that talks about the movement:
Photos from our visit:
like black butterflies 