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Peliti Statement about Dr. Vandana Shiva’s Work on Food Security

The application of scientific findings in the agricultural systems,  through promoting agro-ecology in order to achieve food security,  has been the aim of Dr. Vandana Shiva’s work during the last  decades. Four hundred scientists have been working for the UN for  over six years   and say that “we must look to small holder  traditional farming …

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Holocaust Survivor Hedy Epstein, Arrested in Ferguson Protest, Says Racism Is Alive in America

Hedy Epstein turned 90 on August 15, and she spent much of last week celebrating. Friends and family traveled to her home in St. Louis, Missouri, to join in the festivities—so many of them, in fact, that it wasn’t until yesterday that she finally had a day to herself. Epstein left her home in the …

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Fields Medal mathematics prize won by woman for first time in its history

Maryam Mirzakhani, who was born and raised in Iran, has been awarded the highest honour a mathematician can attain It will go down in history as the moment one of the last bastions of male dominance fell. A woman has won the world’s most prestigious mathematics prize for the first time since the award was …

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Marina Abramovic: MASTER THE ART OF DOING NOTHING ALL DAY

THIRTY YEARS AGO, Serbian performance artist Marina Abramovic was a penniless outsider, lining of a van. Now the 67-year-old is a star turn, not just revered by the art world for her boundary-pushing shows, but collaborating with Lady Gaga and inspiring a storyline on Sex and the City. As the New-York based artist begins a …

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Amira Hass: Israel’s moral defeat will haunt us for years

By Amira Hass | Jul. 28, 2014 If victory is measured in the number of dead, then Israel and its army are big winners. From the time I wrote these words on Saturday, and by the time you read them on Sunday, the number will no longer be 1,000 (70-80 percent civilians) but even more. How many …

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