Pariah beats: Dalits in India are using traditional music to subvert the caste system.
'No-one will say this openly. Gandhi has done the greatest harm ... he did not intend any good for the country!' Professor Subramanian, retired scholar of South Indian classical music, a man of the highest Brahmin caste, turns in his chair back to the singers' recital. He sniffs loudly...

Take food action.
Eat Well * Eat, drink and buy local * Use the vegetarian food guide * Shop at a farmers' market * Try slow cooking * Dine at independent restaurants * Serve healthy meals at schools ...

Knut Hamsun. Knut Hamsun Remembers America: Essays and Stories, 1885-1949.
Trans. and ed. Richard Nelson Current. Univ. of Missouri Press, 2003. 155 pp. $29.95. Knut Hamsun (1859-1952) lived and worked in the United States on two occasions in the 1880s and recorded his impressions in a series of newspaper articles, reminiscences, and stories. Hungry for experience but...

Where to start.
Organics and sustainable agriculture Planet-Friendly maintains a directory of organic and sustainable food and agriculture Web sites and other resources in Canada. www.planetfriendly.net/organic.html City Farmer is a global, on-line resource centre for urban agriculture, including hydroponics, rooftop and community gardens and urban forestry, www.cityfarmer.org ...

POWDER BURN: Arson, Money and Mystery On Vail Mountain.
POWDER BURN: Arson, Money and Mystery On Vail Mountain by Daniel Glick Public Affairs, $25.00 THIS IS A DETECTIVE STORY where the crime turns out to be nowhere near the most evil act. Early in the morning of Oct. 17,1998, a few hunters...

Canning the WTO in Cancun: global justice movement converges for 'another Seattle' in Mexico.
GLOBAL justice groups are gathering in the Mexican resort city, of Cancun, preparing forums and mobilizations to protest the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference that starts on 10 September. Up to 100,000 people from around the world are expected to arrive in Cancun to 'push the WTO...

China. (Country Profile).
ON a small hill beside a lake in central China, an illegal firecrackers factory has just been set up. Village women work in small rooms assembling fuses and filling coils by hand: they are paid two yuan (26 cents) an hour. Most of their husbands are migrant workers far...

WORKERS' COMP.
Coverage Gaps While most early workers' compensation laws were less than comprehensive, with only ultrahazardous employments subject to coverage, and in some states only elective laws, currently the scope of the states' workers' compensation laws is comprehensive for most employers and workers. Notwithstanding the expansion of workers'...

Against ecofeminism: Agrarian populism and the splintered subject in rural India.
Over the last decade, peasant protests in India against multinational businesses and international institutions have emerged as a significantly new form of social movement in which local agrarian interests are articulated through and against both national and transnational idioms. Targets have included businesses such as Monsanto, Gargill, Rhone-Poulenc Agro,...

Saints for Today: Reflections on Lesser Saints & Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes. (Book Review).
Ivan Innerst, Saints for Today: Reflections on Lesser Saints, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2000, 107 pages, $16.50 (Cdn.); and Ronald Knox, Captive Flames: On Selected Saints and Christian Heroes, Ignatius Press, San Francisco, 2001, 184 pages, $21.50 (Cdn.). The title Reflections on Lesser Saints has one wondering...