Tag Archives : oppression

First, be a top Mexican drug lord, then aim to be the ‘Godfather of Mexican Cocaine,’ next write down your experience, then hope that your writings get into the hands of an investigative journalist. Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo did just those. His writings, portions of which were passed to investigative journalist Diego Osorno and published this [...]

“Vengeance is not the point; change is. But the trouble is that in most people’s minds the thought of victory and the thought of punishing the enemy coincide.” (Barbara Deming, Non-Violence Theorist and Women’s Rights Proponent) The fight for land has always been raging. Avenging some other people’s incursion into one’s own land becomes [...]

The tragedy of the Rohingya refugees occupies a special issue in the migrant debate as it has affected many ASEAN member countries. The Rohingya boat people, part of a Muslim minority group living in western Burma’s Arakan State, fled their country in waves over the recent months because of the tremendous pressure they were under from the military [...]

Mahasweta Devi’s ‘The Hunt’ is a story of gender roles and their reversal as a form of seeking justice to gender inequality and oppression. It is also a story of one woman’s triumph over her vulnerability in a patriarchal system and male-dominated society. At the most, it is a critical response to a macho culture. The oppression of woman in [...]

‘The Hunt’ is a story of a rural tribal woman from India. Her name is Mary. She is harassed and stalked by a male logging contractor named Tehsildar who earlier came to her village to buy logging rights. He grows lustful of her. She resists his sexual advances. In an act of self-preservation later on, she turns predator and murders him. In the [...]

December 10 of every year commemorates the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The day is also a reminder that atrocities committed by man against man have not abated, in spite of the Declaration. It’s been 60 years but man-made oppression has not been reduced. Tribal communities and indigenous peoples remain unrecognized because [...]