Posts from ‘January, 2009’

School’s out for summer
School’s out forever
School’s been blown to pieces


No more pencils
No more books

No more teacher’s dirty looks


Out for summer
Out till fall
We might not go back at all


School’s out forever
School’s out for summer
School’s out with fever
School’s out completely
Welcome to Zimbabwe, where even Alice Cooper becomes a prophet. The schools of Zimbabwe are closed. One more [...]

How is the border story told? Let’s look at Ciudad Juárez as an example. Reporters Without Borders and the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) released a report this week that “points out that the deployment of many federal personnel – civilian and military – to this major drug-trafficking stronghold has not made the [...]

Women In and Beyond the Global, WIBG, a peer-reviewed online journal
Women In and Beyond the Global, WIBG, is an open access feminist project that analyzes and works to change the status and conditions of women in global households, prisons, and cities. WIBG involves activists, academics, information specialists and others. WIBG has established a blog site, [...]

In the continuing sunshine of the inauguration of Barack Hussein Obama, Susan R. Benda, a DC-based lawyer, reflects on the embracing impact on her own son, a pre-teen raised by a single mom: “The doors of his imagination have swung open, and his sense of his place in the world has changed.” Doors of imagination, [...]

On Saturday, Feb 7, 10:30-12:00, Lisa Rabin and Catherine Berrouet of George Mason University

 will speak about
“THE CULMORE LITERACY AND POPULAR EDUCATION PROJECT: MELDING COMMUNITY AND UNIVERSITY KNOWLEDGES IN NORTHERN VIRGINIA” 
at the 5th Conversation of the Transnational Network on Women’s Issues.
To join the conversation in person, please go to George Washington University Phillips Hall, Room 411, 801 22nd St, NW, or [...]

What passes today for good news from the government of Zimbabwe? The 100-trillion dollar note? No. The rate of deaths from cholera exceeding the rate of inflation, having topped 2000? Not even close.  “The twisted arithmetic of crumbling Zimbabwe” that makes burials out of reach of ordinary peoples’ economies? Nope. Give up?
Good news in Zimbabwe [...]

Refugees have been in the news a lot lately. The strikes on Gaza offer one of the most prominent and horrifying examples happening right now.  Zimbabweans fleeing the Mugabe regime, often classified as economically displaced, fall under the category of ¨refugee¨ in mainstream reporting. The U.S. occupation of Iraq has led to the displacement of [...]

We started a Women In and Beyond the Global Facebook group!
If you are a Facebook member, please join the group to connect and share ideas with transnational feminists working around the world.
If you are not on Facebook yet, be sure to join here so that you don´t miss out on WIBG events, discussions about women in global households, prisons, and [...]

The headline reads: “Mugabe’s wife raids bank vaults”. Remember Brecht’s poem about the worker who reads history, which ask, “Young Alexander conquered India. He alone?” She alone?
Grace goes shopping, Bob goes for `reflection.’ What does he see when he looks in the mirror? Who does he see? Does he see the starving, the dying, the [...]

Africa may face centuries of poverty. Social Watch has developed a basic capabilities index  that shows that economic growth does not necessarily produce drops in poverty levels. In fact, “the basic needs required to escape poverty persists; even more, it is increasing, in spite of impressive economic growth in most developing countries.”  Meanwhile, according to [...]