This blog is a platform for critique and conversation about grassroots humanitarian efforts for education, particularly in East Africa and South Asia.  It seeks to: advocate for the local voices being affected by large-scale and grassroots development strategies, profile non-governmental organizations and individual work, and to act as a research journal.

This blog will explore the issues and debates that have surfaced because of the pipeline that is planned to be an extension of the Keystone project.  This pipeline is called "Keystone XL" and the pipe itself will run from Alberta to southern Texas.  There have been protests in both Ottawa and Washington D.C. as well as across the United States. 

The pipeline was intruded on wildlife as well as human territory.  Government officials have been working hard, it seems, to cover up the issues the pipe has already caused, but opposers of the pipeline bring these stories to the media. 

Native American communities suffer from an array of issues, but one of the most unknown is within the law enforcement agencies and the states within which they live. This blog will discuss some of the main issues of the problem with a unique inside perspective of Akwesasne, a Mohawk territory with 5 borders.

In this blogspace I am examining free-market influences on disease-response efforts in Kenya and the South Indian state of Kerala. My critique reveals the economic pressures, socio-historical factors and political interests which have allowed Kerala to largely meet the medical needs of its citizens while hindering Kenyan attempts to decrease malaria rates.

This blog shifts the debate about drilling for energy away from the economic framework that has flowed in and out of the political realm and sheds light on the environmental and social health effects of this addiction – effects that should change the political and social debate entirely.

This blog features interviews with members of Spain's "indignados" movement, which began on May 15, 2011 when the people of Spain took to the streets to demand economic justice and a real voice in a truly democratic system. 

The Clinic on Human Rights, an undergraduate project at St. Lawrence University, focuses on the mass killings of women on the border.

Estella Hefti writes about political violence in Colombia with a special focus on the underreported issue of internally displaced persons (IDPs).

John Collins explores the global politics of violence and the representation of violence, paying particular attention to the microcosmic and prophetic location of Palestine in relation to these processes, a topic addressed in his new book Global Palestine (Hurst/Columbia UP, 2011).