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Reducing timber loss through responsible management of the world’s forest stock has the power to reduce poverty, conflict, and greenhouse gases. This policy paper details efforts to date and provides comprehensive proposals for much needed action.
WPI BOOKS
Age of Greed
WPI Senior Fellow Jeff Madrick describes the history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last forty years, and of the men most responsible for them. He recounts the single-minded pursuit of huge personal wealth that has been on the rise in the United States since the 1970s, led by a few individuals who have argued that self-interest guides society more effectively than community concerns.
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Hispaniola Dialogue
HISPANIOLA DIALOGUE
The Hispaniola Dialogue promotes dialogue between the Dominican Republic and Haiti, and among Dominicans and Haitians and other interested individuals and groups around the world, to promote the protection of human rights and the reduction of poverty on the island shared by these two nations. The Dialogue is in keeping with WPI's focus on problems that cannot be addressed through approaches within borders alone, but require transnational collaboration.
The project began with WPI Executive Michele Wucker's acclaimed book, Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (Hill & Wang, 1999/2000).
The Hispaniola Dialogue includes a discussion group, founded in 1997 and comprised of approximately 700 scholars, experts, government officials, activists, and individuals. To join, visit the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dominican/
For more information, email wucker@worldpolicy.org.
The project began with WPI Executive Michele Wucker's acclaimed book, Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (Hill & Wang, 1999/2000).
The Hispaniola Dialogue includes a discussion group, founded in 1997 and comprised of approximately 700 scholars, experts, government officials, activists, and individuals. To join, visit the group homepage at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dominican/
For more information, email wucker@worldpolicy.org.
Affiliated projects:
Dialogo de dos pueblos
A radio program hosted by Juan Rodriguez
on Canal de Noticias-Santo Domingo
Selected transcripts:
Interview with Luis Barrios (in Spanish)
Interview transcript with Franklin Franco (in Spanish)
Interview with Bernardo Vega (in Spanish)
Interview with Michele Wucker (in Spanish)
A radio program hosted by Juan Rodriguez
on Canal de Noticias-Santo Domingo
Selected transcripts:
Interview with Luis Barrios (in Spanish)
Interview transcript with Franklin Franco (in Spanish)
Interview with Bernardo Vega (in Spanish)
Interview with Michele Wucker (in Spanish)
Jon Anderson's Dominican batey website
Dominican Republic-based photojournalist and essayist Jon Anderson's sensitive compilation of images and essay on the bateyes, the marginalized communities in the sugar cane fields of the Dominican Republic.
"The purpose of this project is twofold: aside from helping advertise the plight of the braceros and helping those who work to help them, I am also very much intent on testing the potential of the web as a new publishing medium and, to some extent, to cultivate new ways of communicating with or even creating our audience," Jon says. "It is my belief that as journalists it is incumbent upon us to explore and exploit new media and ensure that we continue to play an important role in its development."
http://www.dominicanbatey.org
Dominican Republic-based photojournalist and essayist Jon Anderson's sensitive compilation of images and essay on the bateyes, the marginalized communities in the sugar cane fields of the Dominican Republic.
"The purpose of this project is twofold: aside from helping advertise the plight of the braceros and helping those who work to help them, I am also very much intent on testing the potential of the web as a new publishing medium and, to some extent, to cultivate new ways of communicating with or even creating our audience," Jon says. "It is my belief that as journalists it is incumbent upon us to explore and exploit new media and ensure that we continue to play an important role in its development."
http://www.dominicanbatey.org
