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  AISC: Roots of Resistance
roots of resistance land tenure in new mexico 1680 1980 roxanne dunbar ortiz socioeconomic study history northern New Mexico Mexicans Pueblo Indians land tenure land use
Roots of Resistance is a socioeconomic study of the history of northern New Mexico land tenure.
Dispelling stereotypes of Mexicans and Pueblo Indian people in the region, this book provides a case study of capitalist development in a colonized area and sheds a critical light on the issue of land use and land tenure in New Mexico in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
www.books.aisc.ucla.edu /toc/roots.html   (107 words)

  
  Roots of Resistance
Roots of Resistance was an anti-racist organization active in Vancouver, Canada from 1992 to 1996.
Roots of Resistance also criticized parliamentary attempts to restrict immigration, and directly opposed neo-fascist activity, two manifestations of racism that were virulent in early- to mid-1990s Canada.
Roots of Resistance's people of colour-only membership was an organizational strategy developed to address racism from a position of strength and affinity, but also to reject what was seen as a white cultural hegemony within the radical left which effectively excluded people of colour and their perspectives.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Roots_of_Resistance   (354 words)

  
 Roots reggae and resistance from Jamaica to Brixton|Socialist Worker|27Aug05
Roots reggae and resistance from Jamaica to BrixtonSocialist Worker27Aug05
Roots reggae and resistance from Jamaica to Brixton
Though the roots reggae sound was superseded by lovers rock and the faster ragga and dancehall styles, toasting was highly influential on both the rap and hip-hop scenes.
www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php4?article_id=7187   (897 words)

  
 How severe is antibiotic resistance?
"The global increase in resistance to antimicrobial drugs, including the emergence of bacterial strains that are resistant to all available antibacterial agents, has created a public health problem of potentially crisis proportions." That's the word from the American Medical Association (AMA), which studied the issue in 1995, and seldom fulminates (defined) in such alarmist terms.
She called the presence of resistance in pathogens "the tip of the iceberg compared to what's out there in the environment." See "New Hunt for the Roots of Resistance," Science, 3 April 1998, p.
In Atlanta, a 1994 study of infections caused by Streptococcus pneumonia found that 25 percent of 431 patients had a bug that resisted penicillin, and that 25 percent of all cases were resistant to several antibiotics.
whyfiles.org /038badbugs/scope.html   (1139 words)

  
 Khilafah.com - Resistance has its roots in the present   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Some US officials had covered themselves by saying there might be a short "uptick" in the resistance, prompted by a spate of revenge-seeking if the Hussein brothers or their father were captured or killed.
In other quarters there has been a contrary suggestion that resistance might increase with the Hussein family's deaths, since some Iraqis might feel less inhibited about opposing the occupation if they no longer felt that they were somehow supporting the old regime.
It is easier to claim that the resistance comes from "remnants of the past" than recognise that it is fuelled by grievances about the present and doubts about the future.
www.khilafah.com /home/category.php?DocumentID=7921&TagID=2   (639 words)

  
 LEADERLESS RESISTANCE   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But leaderless resistance is a fundamentally anarchic form of popular organizing, because it involves decentralized, popular resistance to tyranny.
The practical reality of leaderless resistance, then, is to create organization without organizations, because leftist groups get stomped by the State before they can "spread their poison".
Leaderless resistance, then, is the tool of the disenfranchised, the poor, and the weak, who have neither the status, power, nor the resources to fight those they wish to fight on even terms.
a4a.mahost.org /resist.html   (1326 words)

  
 American Experience
Roots of Resistance -- The Story of the Underground Railroad (1 hr.)
Men and women, fl and white, risked their lives to carve an elaborate network of escape routes out of slavery in the mid 1800s -- trails and backroads, safehouses, river crossings and night trains leading as far north as Canada.
Disguises, secret rendezvous and special codes were used to guard the identity of "conductors" and their fugitive "passengers." But flight to free territory didn't guarantee freedom; fugitives could be hunted down and returned.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/films/amx0216.html   (85 words)

  
 BIOCHEMICAL ASPECTS OF GREENHOUSE TOMATO ROOTS RESPONSE AND RESISTANCE TO NEMATODES (MELOIDOGYNE INCOGNITA)
Further, chemical composition of roots, with and without galls, was determined for three tomato varieties at the end of the vegetation period.
When nematodes were absent, diferences between resistant and sensitive roots depend on the growth stage of the respective plants and are sensibly higher with fruit setting on the 4-th flowering.
While both kinds of roots exhibit an increase of chlorogenic acid and prevailing polyphenols contents, increases are much higher in resistant roots.
www.actahort.org /books/58/58_25.htm   (292 words)

  
 Rasta and Resistance - Introduction
A recourse to the world of slavery, where the cultural and spiritual expressions of the slaves were preludes to armed revolts, begins in the analysis of resistance, centralising the role of religion among the slaves and their children, highlighting the importance of religious leaders such as Sam Sharpe and Paul Bogel.
The resistance of the Rastafari to the neo-colonial society of Jamaica is examined against the background of positive and negative influences which this movement has exerted on Jamaica and Caribbean society.
In analysing the culture of resistance, called reggae, it becomes clear that the conscious efforts to internationalise this music stemmed from the fact that the Rastafarians understood that in the neo-colonial society of Jamaica it was only the attainment of international recognition which would lead the music to become the music of Jamaica.
mojo.calyx.net /~olsen/RASTAFARI/CAMPBELL/introduction.html   (4156 words)

  
 Resistance Has its Roots in the Present - The Iraqis Opposing Occupation are not Remnants of the Old Regime
But their basic prediction was that resistance would subside.
It is easier to claim that the resistance comes from "remnants of the past" than recognize that it is fueled by grievances about the present and doubts about the future.
Resistance appears to be localized with no central command.
www.commondreams.org /views03/0725-10.htm   (971 words)

  
 Education: Intellectual indignation: Getting at the roots of student resistance in an alternative high school program
Although the program continues and is generally seen as positive in its impact, an analysis of the data revealed resistance as a major theme among the students, particularly in the form of "intellectual indignation".
Although there is a great deal of discussion in the literature on the education of African American children (see Delpit, 1995, Ladson-Billings, 1999, Kunjufu, 1985, Shujaa, 1996), from my observations and the data collected, BI adopted no model which specifically addressed the vast majority of their population; African Americans.
This resistance, and the adult response to it, would threaten the creation of a strong positive ethos, which Grant (1988) argues can be the difference between a school that works and one that does not.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3673/is_200101/ai_n8948839   (1273 words)

  
 Resistance of pea roots to endomycorrhizal fungus or Rhizobium correlates with enhanced levels of endogenous salicylic ...
Resistance of pea roots to endomycorrhizal fungus or Rhizobium correlates with enhanced levels of endogenous salicylic acid -- Blilou et al.
Resistance of pea roots to endomycorrhizal fungus or Rhizobium correlates with enhanced levels of endogenous salicylic acid
observed in roots of the wild-type, an effect that was not observed in
jxb.oupjournals.org /cgi/content/abstract/50/340/1663   (294 words)

  
 The roots of resistance
The mosque lies in the Adhamiya District of Baghdad, a stronghold of resistance in the city.
Sitting in their living room, surrounded by the man's crying mother, aunts and sisters, it was very clear to me where resistance to the occupation comes from.
Explaining the roots of Iraqi resistance and supporting their struggle is a key challenge for our movement.
www.socialistworker.org /2004-2/523/523_04_DefyOccupation.shtml   (339 words)

  
 The roots of the resistance
U.S. PROCONSUL Paul Bremer and the military brass claimed that the armed resistance in Iraq was small--composed of scattered "former regime elements" in the so-called Sunni Triangle of central Iraq, al-Qaeda operatives, and a band of hardline Shiites led by Sadr which is determined to build an Islamist state.
In fact, resistance in the most rebellious city, Falluja, began two weeks after the U.S. conquest--when U.S. troops fired on a crowd of demonstrators, killing at least 17 people, including women and children.
The central demand of the Iraqi resistance is an end to the U.S. occupation--now.
www.socialistworker.org /2004-1/495/495_05_Resistance.shtml   (1192 words)

  
 ZNet | Foreign Policy | Roots of War, Roots of Resistance
Also among the root causes are continuing racism, the legacies of colonialism and neo-colonialism, and the
Rather than addressing root causes, with its new energy policy designed to encourage still greater fuel consumption and dependency on foreign sources of oil, the Bush Administration is compounding the political, environmental, moral and existential crisis.
Some family members of victims of the September 11 attacks are organizing and beginning to serve as the moment's moral exemplars, much as draft resisters who filled Vietnam-era prisons did a generation ago.
www.zmag.org /content/ForeignPolicy/gerson0131.cfm   (3424 words)

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