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By Theresa Wolfwood  “ the day we die/the wind comes down/to take away/our footprints/the wind makes dust/to cover up/the marks we left/while walking …”     Poetry from Bushmen in  A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry edited by Czeslaw Milosz.   Harcourt Brace & Company….

Theresa Wolfwood, 2006 Canadian elections are pretty humdrum affairs – we don’t get very worked up by them unless there is a strong personal connection. So we were not prepared for the intensity and excitement of elections in El Salvador when we joined an international…

Theresa Wolfwood, April, 2006 A long dusty cloud and a throb of engines insinuate into the square where a group of women and children wash clothes at the village well. Until then the loudest noise was the cry of a fretting baby. Beyond the village,…

In a quiet peaceful village, adobe walls surround spacious compounds filled with the sound of children at play, the bleat of goats. The village sits on the fertile Punjab plain, green fields of grain and grass stretch out to meet the next village. Water, close…

Theresa Wolfwood, June 2005 I asked on a list serve recently that members consider and respond to a question about what each thought was the greatest obstacle to peace in their country/region and how they could respond to this. I have pondered what I would…

Theresa Wolfwood Reflects on the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India, 2004 The World Social Forum is an ongoing process, a moveable feast. Since the first WSF was held in Porto Alegre in 2001, it was repeated there in 2002 and 2003 with ever increasing…

 by Theresa Wolfwood Blink and you’ll miss it – if you are looking for a farm community in Saskatchewan. I watched carefully for a small sign for Laura -one of hundreds of shrinking villages in Saskatchewan. To find Nettie Wiebe on her farm she’d said…

An Address Delivered by Razan Zuayter at the Regional Coordination Mechanism Meeting Held at the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia*, 25, Oct. 2011 We believe that the main reason for the absence of the sustainable development issue from our priority agenda is…

Irene acquitted Dec. 2, 2008 KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia: A Malaysian court on Monday acquitted a prominent labour activist who was arrested 12 years ago for claiming that police tortured illegal immigrants in detention. The Kuala Lumpur High Court ruled in favour of Irene Fernandez, director…