#11-24 Reviving Indigenous Law in Canada (nice for indigenous history month, or any time)
Maxine Matilpi is an indigenous woman from British Columbia, Canada, who is also a lawyer and the Program Lead for
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WINGS: Women’s International News Gathering Service
“Raising Women’s Voices through Radio Worldwide” since 1986
Environment
#08-24 War and Climate Change … Three experts address the press
On May 29, 2024, WINGS attended an online press briefing, titled War and Climate Change, hosted by Covering Climate Now.
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#06-24 Words for Water … Poet Rita Wong on the essential element
Canadian poet and activist Rita Wong reads from her essays and poems that contrast traditional indigenous knowledge of and respect
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#43-23 Global Homelessness … its causes
Human displacement and homelessness keep growing and growing. In a “parable” of uncertain attribution, there’s a community struggling to save
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#33-23 Cancer Math: The deep research of biometrist Rosalie Bertell
Rosalie Bertell, PhD (1929-2012), was a biometrist – a mathematician who analyzed risks to health from radiation and pollution. In
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#31-23 El Niño floods in Kenya
Despite President Ruto’s announcement that severe El Niño rains would not affect Kenya, the country’s meteorologist was right – there are floods
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#29-23 Ocean Ecocide and the campaign to stop it
The deep sea floor has become a highly contested region of the world. Mining companies are eager to scrape up
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#21-23 African Foods Revival … Returning to what grows well
Summary: A movement is afoot to recover traditional African food plants, preserve them, and disseminate the knowledge about how to grow
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#20-23 Vanastree Seed Savers … A women-run collective in South India
Vanastree.org is a women-run seed saving collective and agroecology training location in the Malnad region of the Western Ghats in
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#16-23 Kenya Tax Attacks … Violence against protests about cost of food
Faced with record high foreign debt, Kenya’s government passed a new finance bill to raise taxes. Part of it has
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