Sentences with phrase «group of peasants»

The Hindu: Polluted skies, dead rivers, disappearing forests and displacement of peasants and tribal are what we see around us 40 years after the Chipko movement started On the 27th of March 1973 — exactly 40 years ago — a group of peasants in a remote Himalayan village stopped a group of loggers from felling [continue reading...]

Sébastien Bourdon (1616 — 1671), Group of Peasants and a Boy Drinking from a Bowl, ca. 1636, black and white chalk on light brown paper; incised for transfer.

A group of peasants and fishermen, who have grown up under the shadow of «El Gigante» (the giant), struggles against the multinational companies Enel, Endesa and Impregilo.

I remember listening to a sermon discussion on the same text by a group of peasants on the outskirts of San Jose, Costa Rica.

Small political groups of peasants could not long resist the masses of the invaders» But the folk genius gave the most effective response through folk - lore which transformed these misfortunes into moments of joy and happiness.

Not exact matches

Clearly, the group of knights and peasants who sacked Muslim - controlled Jerusalem at the end of the First Crusade was better equipped to fight than to rule.

They thus came naturally to him to be used as metaphors in his parables proclaiming the Kingdom of God, to an audience predominantly consisting of peasants and others who belonged to the deprived and alienated social groups.40 The images from nature, therefore, become meaningful to an audience who were in constant relationship with nature in their daily activities on the farm, with its experience of pathos and joy.

Stackhouse and McCann celebrate the «relationships, group solidarities and cosmopolitan understandings» made possible by the new economic order in contrast to the miserable condition of the peasants in traditional societies.

Cobb ignores the ways corporations, where permitted to develop, are breaking down the barriers between peoples and are allowing the grandchildren of peasants to develop relationships, group solidarities and cosmopolitan understandings that for most of human history were available only to a few elites.

The solidarity of the social group is not typical of peasant life.

In countries in the South, faced with the alliance between international capital, the comprador bourgeoisie and part of the middle class, the alternative consisted in using joint programmes and actions to bring together the different grass - roots groups such as workers, peasants, the informal sector, movements of the urban poor, co-operatives, minority ethnic groups, and also the vulnerable middle classes, students, etc..

At first glance, it seems like an ordinary, innocent photograph: a group of Polish peasants holding shovels in a field on a sunny day.

The interests of peasants and workers differed and both groups were suspicious of middle class environmentalists.

Once during the 95 - mile, seven - hour drive they came upon a group of 13 peasants, squatting and silent, their eyes full of the vast emptiness around them.

This matches the anarchist belief in a broad conception of agents of change including workers, peasants and oppressed groups.

For instance, some Maya Indian peasant groups of Guatemala primarily have only corn, beans and squash to eat.

My parents were peasant farmers, members of the Kikuyu community, one of forty - two ethnic groups in Kenya and then, as now, the most populous.

Maathai's parents were peasant farmers and members of the Kikuyu ethnic group.

We got split up into three groups and an equal number of local ladies took us to their respective homes where they had prepared a four course meal consisting of dishes traditionally favored by the peasants of the region.

So the unrest level of peasants and nobles is tracked separately, and decisions you make that will please one group may annoy the other.

Similar to peasants» revolts of the past, young people organised themselves, formed their own independent art groups and put on exhibitions.

A coalition of peasant farmer groups are protesting their meaningful exclusion at the High Level Conference on Food Security taking place in Spain on January 26 - 27.