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Stella Pierides

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Niyamgiri Victory

David vs Goliath

A tribe in India has won a stunning victory over one of the world’s biggest mining companies. The Dongria Kondh, a tribe of 8000 people, with the help of Survival International and others, has won a victory over a multibillion company which proposed to mine bauxite on the sacred hills of the tribe. The Dongria Kondh’s struggle had a happier ending than that of the film Avatar, in which a tribe was pitted against a ruthless mining company. The Dongria Kondh’s perseverance, courage, and victory will encourage indigenous tribes everywhere.

Well done to Dongria Kondh, their supporters, and to Survival!

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Posted by stella On December - 3 - 2009

Stella's picture VHB_newWelcome to my website and reading room blog.

I write prose and poetry. My work has been included in anthologies, in print, online magazines and elsewhere. I have co-edited Even Paranoids Have Enemies (Routledge, 1998) and Beyond Madness (JKP, 2002) and published articles and reviews in other books and journals.

My novel Alexandrias 40: In the Shade of the Lemon Tree will  be published in the autumn 2010 by Vox Humana Books http://www.voxhumana-books.com

My interests include the arts and literature, culture and society, spirituality and the pursuit of meaning. I spend a lot of time trying to coax forms from amorphous lumps of clay when I should be writing, and write when I should be potting. Whenever the conflict gets too much for me, I walk around the Bavarian lakes and rivers. And of  course I read. A lot.

I am member of English PEN and the North London Writers’ Group Word for Word

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