Shows Featuring: Politics
Featured Women: Ayumi Kinezuka, Dina Hoff, Elizabeth Mpufo, Nettie Wiebe
Featured Topics: Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, farming and women, Gender Rights, GMO issues, GMO's, Grassroots Organizing, Health (physical, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Labor Rights, land grabbing, land rights, Land Rights for Women, Law & Conservation, mental), Monsanto, Nuclear Issues, peasant movments, peasants and democracy, pesticide damage worldwide, pesticides, Politics, resource poor nations, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, TPP, trade agreements, Transpacific Partnership, women, women farmers, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Conservation, democracy and trade policy, Ecology, Extreme Climate and Global Warming, farming and women, Gender Rights, GMO issues, GMO's, Grassroots Organizing, Health (physical, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Labor Rights, land grabbing, land rights, Land Rights for Women, Law & Conservation, mental), Monsanto, Nuclear Issues, peasant movments, peasants and democracy, pesticide damage worldwide, pesticides, Politics, resource poor nations, sustainable agriculture, sustainable farming, TPP, trade agreements, Transpacific Partnership, women, women farmers, Women's Rights
We profile women of La Via Campesina, the global peasant movement celebrating 20 years of grassroots activism, for sustainable farming, land rights and social justice. Canadian Nettie Wiebe fights to keep seeds in the hands of small farmers. From the
Featured Women: Devorah Brous, Lydia Alpizar, Wangari Maathai
Featured Topics: Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Gender Rights, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Women's Rights
Featured Topics: Conservation, Eco-justice, Ecology, Entrpreneurism, Gender Rights, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Women's Rights
Women worldwide are gaining influence as leaders: struggling for peace, justice, the environment and civil society. On this edition of Making Contact, we profile three tireless and effective women: Wangari Maathai, founder of the Greenbelt Movement in Kenya; Devorah Brous, founder of