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Through the voices of the peoples of Africa and the global South, Pambazuka Press and Pambazuka News disseminate analysis and debate on the struggle for freedom and justice.


New report from ETC Group



"Money or Life: What makes us really rich"

Now in English! Free download (39 pages pdf) of a German essay by Veronika Bennholdt-Thomsen on our relationship with the money economy -- and alternatives.

Special coverage - #Occupy

International Blogs

See Virtual Vita Nuova bý Jasmina Tešanović,  Serbian author, political activist (Women in Black, Code Pink), translator, and filmmaker.

Welcome to the Women and Life on Earth internet project: WLOE e.V.

"Women and Life on Earth: women in international cooperation for peace, ecology and social justice" (WLOE e.V.) is a German non-profit association. Our name goes back to the northeastern US-based Women and Life on Earth network based on ecological feminism. more

This website features news, background information and links in three language sections, English, German and Spanish, on women's action for peace and ecological health, and information. Our contributors are all volunteers, so we welcome your support. To help contact info(at)wloe.org

February is African American History Month
"This year's theme 'Black Women in American Culture and History' honors African American women and the myriad of roles they played in the shaping of our nation."
See our Black History Month pages

and a short video on the development of Black History Month from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)

What's new?

February 03, 2012

Amira Haas: "Does helping Palestinians beautify the occupation?"

"The women of MachsomWatch have helped some 5,000 people through the process of appealing their travel ban to Israel." [more...]

February 03, 2012

Black History Month 2012: Black Women in American Culture and History

"It’s February, and with that annual marker comes Black History Month. It’s such an important moment when the history of an entire community gets elevated, but also such a frustrating reminder of how every other month is white history month. When will get past this kind of marginalization?" [more...]

January 25, 2012

We’re fed up! Farms not agribusiness

Large demonstration and rally in Berlin, Saturday January 21, demands changes in agriculture in Germany and beyond. [more...]

January 21, 2012

Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable

7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down. By Sarah van Gelder [more...]

January 21, 2012

Arundhati Roy: Capitalism’s Real Gravediggers - Beware the ‘Gush-Up Gospel’ Behind India’s Billionaires

"In India, the 300m of us who belong to the new, post-“reforms” middle class – the market – live side by side with the ghosts of 250,000 debt-ridden farmers who have killed themselves, and of the 800m who have been impoverished and dispossessed to make way for us. And who survive on less than 50 cents a day." [more...]

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