The World Bank has finally responded to pressure from NGOs, rights activists and grassroots groups calling on an end to financing for land grabbing projects that allow the leasing of huge tracts traditionally occupied by the world's poorest and most disenfranchised to make way for large-scale corporate agriculture projects. In their statement, released at the close of this week's World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty, Bank President Dr.
Martin Cobin, age 91, lives in Louisville, Colorado.
Cultural Survival is deeply saddened by the sudden death of our long-time Bazaar vendor, Jean Crandall of La Chula Mula. Jean, 47, a former folklorist at the DC Arts Councildied on November 1, 2011, at her home in Poughkeepsie, New York.
Next door to Cultural Survival's Community Radio Project monthly training and production session, a week-long workshop on video production was also getting underway with the help of two documentary filmmakers, Hanna Adock and Karin Stowe, from the University of Winchester, England.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.
