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- An African Village Two decades of change in an African Village
New Internationalist May 2006 - #389
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2006
A look at the lives of people living in African villages and how things have improved.
- The City in History
Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1961
Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
- An Economic History of West Africa
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
An examination of the economy of West Africa from the fifteenth to the twentieth century.
- Israeli army raids on Bil'in village
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Israeli army forces are launching night-time military raids on Bil'in village in Palestine. Military raids launched by Israeli forces in Palestine in parallel to court case in Canada.
- The man reconstructing Palestine's lost villages
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Abu Sitta has diligently reconstructed and mapped the future for all Palestinians laying the groundwork for their homecoming.
"Our plan is to reconstruct the destroyed Palestinian villages. The plans are derived from a massive database. We are creating a file for every village, its house plans before 1948, its features and characteristics, its economies and its status of education. Young architects are now working on the reconstruction of these destroyed villages to be built in the same locations with the same beautiful old features, but with modern amenities."
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - May 7, 2016
Tax Evasion
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2016
Employing a network of accountants, tax lawyers, corporate shells, tax havens, secret bank accounts, and other methods, the 1% have become extremely adept at evading even the low rates of taxation they are subjected to.
- A Quiet Violence
View from a Bangladesh Village
Resource Type: Book
In this book, two Bengali-speaking Americans take the reader to a Bangladesh village where they lived for nine months. There the reader meets some of the world's poorest people, and some of the not-so-poor people who profit from their misery. This book describes the quiet violence of needless hunger.
- Small is Beautiful
A Study of Economics as if People Mattered
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
Schumacher argues that mainstream economics is incompatible with the long-term ends of humanity.
- Spain's communist model village
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Marinaleda, in impoverished Andalusia, used to suffer terrible hardships. Led by a charismatic mayor, the village declared itself a communist utopia and took farmland to provide for everyone. Could it be the answer to modern capitalism's failings?
- A village about to be demolished
A glimpse into occupation
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Susiya is a microcosm of life for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation. Palestinians living in the little village of Susiya and elsewhere are under constant threat of demolition, expulsion and forced relocation.
- The Village Against The World
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Hancox recounts the fascinating story of Marinaleda villagers who expropriated the land owned by wealthy aristocrats and have, since the 1980s, made it the foundation of a cooperative way of life.
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