GUIDE TO THIS MONTH'S ARTICLES - November / December 2022
Take back the land
From the land under our feet, we can produce food, construct shelter, and build livelihoods. Bu it also shows our culture and our identity. Colonizers, the rich, amd polluters have used the control of land. But they make its protectors – often Indigenous peoples – criminals. They violate them and take away their land. This edition is about struggles to take back the land in Brazil, Bangladesh, Kenya, and North America.
From this issue:
Controlling land is a way of controlling people. For example, in Palestine, Wadi Qana was Abu Nassar's land to farm and enjoy. But the Israeli authorities now control his land. Now the land serves them. Powerful people often take away people’s connections with the land. Read more:
75% of people in Brazil want democracy but leaders like Bolsonaro are authoritarian. 7 per cent prefer a dictatorship. Another survey shows that 7 per cent believe the Earth is flat. Read why education is so important now in Brazil:
Refugees are in the best position to write about refugees. Read about a group of refugee journalists putting refugees’ voices at the heart of the conversation.
In a survey more than 50 per cent of Dalits living outside India said they were afraid of people knowing they are Dalits. Read about the serious problems lower caste Indians have in their lives in India and abroad.
About 75 per cent of suicides are from low and middle-income countries. The World Health Organisation’s solution to this terrible fact is to make it easier for people to get drugs like anti-depressants. But thai just makes people feel that they are to blame fo their problems. How can we better help people with mental health problems?
Brazil’s general elections finished at the end of October 2022. There was a big increase in voter harassment and trying to buy workers’ votes. Read about Brazil’s vote-buying scandals.
Can the state tell women what to wear? In Karnataka in India Muslim women want to wear the hijab and in Iran they choose not to wear it.
Political problems in Peru quickly started state violence as police and the army killed protesters.
