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Jaipur: Last year, as the Covid-19 pandemic raged across the world, 20-year-old Vineeta Meena’s dream of becoming a police officer seemed all but lost. Meena, a resident of Gokalpur village in Sapotra Block of Karauli district in Rajasthan was suddenly at home trying to thwart the repeated attempts of her parents to marry her off. […]
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Lives and Livelihoods in the Wake of Covid-19 Pandemic in Rural Bihar
July 14th, 2021 
Awake Goy by Gaurav Datt, Swati Dutta and Sunil Kumar Mishra The study The Covid-19 pandemic has triggered an unprecedented health and an economic crisis of in India. It is important to document how this crisis has affected people’s lives and livelihoods in different parts of the country. Based on phone interviews with more than 1600 households […]
DHS Training Program Prepares For Rural Lockdowns, Mass Quarantines Against Unvaccinated
July 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Above chart source: Bloomberg News An official training subcontractor for the DHS and FEMA has put up a bulletin on a training program entitled “ISOLATION & QUARANTINE FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES.” The Biden administration has decried the low COVID vaccination rates in southern and rural America. The course description reads: “This 8.0-hour, instructor-led course is designed to […]
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No Comments »Covid infections now surging in rural African areas
June 30th, 2021 Awake Goy Coronavirus cases are surging in rural areas of Africa as the continent faces its third wave of the virus. Places once seen as safe havens from Covid-19 have seen a spike in cases amid the spread of the highly contagious Delta variant in the continent. The World Health Organisation’s regional office for Africa has said […]
Medieval Cooking Pots Reveal Rural People Under Muslim Rule Ate Pork!
June 28th, 2021 Awake Goy The island of Sicily is not somewhere most of us would immediately associate with having been a powerful Islamic kingdom. However, between 841 and 1091 AD, the Emirate of Sicily was a key political center of the Muslim world. Archaeologists analyzing microscopic food residue in a sample set of 134 medieval cooking pots, dating to […]
Medieval Cooking Pots Reveal Rural People Under Muslim Rule Ate Pork!
June 28th, 2021 Awake Goy The island of Sicily is not somewhere most of us would immediately associate with having been a powerful Islamic kingdom. However, between 841 and 1091 AD, the Emirate of Sicily was a key political center of the Muslim world. Archaeologists analyzing microscopic food residue in a sample set of 134 medieval cooking pots, dating to […]
‘Rural People Against Racism’ March In Washington
June 1st, 2021 Awake Goy On May 29, local activists in Sedro-Woolley, Washington, (population 11,739) and the greater Skagit County area held a march against racism marking the one year anniversary of the murder of George Floyd. Marchers gathered at Hammer Heritage Square in downtown Sedro-Woolley for sign-waving followed by a march of about 75 people through the business district […]
How Rural Electric Cooperatives Can Support A Green New Deal
May 13th, 2021 Awake Goy Above photo: RECC.coop. Today, as President Joe Biden’s $2 trillion infrastructure bill is debated in Congress, it’s worth recalling that this isn’t the first time the US has faced an infrastructure deficit. “By the 1930s nearly 90 percent of US urban dwellers had electricity, but 90 percent of rural homes were without power. Investor-owned utilities […]
Elon Musk’s Starlink To Offer Alternative High Speed Internet to Rural Australia
April 16th, 2021 Awake Goy Rural and regional Australia may soon have high-speed internet after Elon Musk’s newest venture, Starlink Beta—the early stages of SpaceX’s satellite broadband program—came online in Australia, providing select remote and regional parts of the country with access to its high-speed satellite internet. The service, currently in beta testing mode, is only available in rural areas of […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: alternative, Australia, internet, offer, rural, speed, starlink No Comments »Nolte: Rural Trump Voters Already Live in the Safe, Tolerant Utopia Leftists Claim to Want
April 13th, 2021 Awake Goy If I had to boil down the political wisdom I’ve learned over four decades of observing, studying, writing, and debating, it would be this… Life in Rural America (which is where Republican Trump voters live and govern), is clean, safe and racially tolerant. Most places in America where life is dirty, polluted, dangerous, violent, and […]
MSNBC’s Reid: Limbaugh’s Legacy Is ‘Hardening Rural White Listeners and Weaponizing White Male Grievance’
February 18th, 2021 Awake Goy MSNBC anchor Joy Reid on Wednesday’s broadcast of her show “The ReidOut,” gave her take on the legacy of late conservatives talker Rush Limbaugh. Reid said, “Rush Limbaugh died today at the age of 70 from the complications of lung cancer. And I would argue that he is among the three people in recent American history […]
Posted in Rush Limbaugh Tags: hardening, legacy, limbaugh, listeners, msnbc, rural, white No Comments »Displacement of rural communities , diversion of fertile land and forests likely to prove very costly
February 7th, 2021 Awake Goy Several countries including India have embarked on a development strategy which emphasizes very rapid and large-scale extraction of minerals, construction of large dams and super-highways, huge urbanization and industrial projects. This is equated to development and progress by ruling regimes and hence they do not give adequate and proper attention to the huge social and […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: communities, displacement, diversion, fertile, forests, likely, rural No Comments »Rural vs Urban Population in India
February 4th, 2021 Awake Goy The Farmers’ Protest Movement has brought into sharp focus that India consists of two countries. One is the mighty sprawling urban India where all of us fortunate live spoilt by consumerism and wanting more and more at the cost of others. The other is the weak scattered rural population who are waiting still since 1947 […]
The Greater Green Revolution—Distortions in Rural Development
February 3rd, 2021 Awake Goy The green revolution has been widely discussed and its different aspects have been highlighted by various observers according to their own understanding of emphasis and priorities. To this writer the essence of the green revolution seems to lie in the following tendencies, all the more significant because these seem to be shared by technological […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: Development, distortions, greater, green, revolution, rural No Comments »Politics of the Plate: An account of Adivasi Culinary Aesthetic in Rural Southwest Bengal
January 19th, 2021 Awake Goy My encounter with tribal cuisine has been rather fresh. Till very recently, not only was I unaware of the enviable variety of the tribal palate, its nutritional value and ecological ethos too were beyond my comprehension. It should be made clear in the offing that my tryst with tribal gastronomy is limited to my area […]
Posted in Jewish News Tags: account, adivasi, aesthetic, culinary, plate, politics, rural No Comments »New farm laws will impoverish rural India, eventually lead to collapse of PDS
December 19th, 2020 Awake Goy All sections of society — farmers, agricultural labourers, small shopkeepers — must oppose the new farm laws and hold the central government accountable for trying to jeopardise the country’s food security. Farmers across the country are agitating in a single voice for the rollback of the recently enacted farm laws. The new laws have the […]
Many-Sided Rural Crisis and 12 Groups
December 10th, 2020 Awake Goy An important strength of India is that about two-thirds of its people live in villages. As the world grapples with life-endangering environmental problems, the rural base of a country can be an important source of resilience in protecting life-nurturing conditions and getting close to self-reliance in terms of meeting basic needs. However in the absence […]
Organizing Rural Manufacturing Workers Matters
November 11th, 2020 Awake Goy Above photo: Spencer Davis. It’s no secret that the number of manufacturing jobs in the United States has steadily declined over the past few decades, replaced largely by low-wage work in the service sector. But in many rural communities, manufacturing is still the most important part of the local economy. In fact, manufacturing jobs account […]
BLM Protesters Took A Wrong Turn Into MAGA Country, Run Out Of Town By Armed Locals In Rural Nevada
August 11th, 2020 Awake Goy 
Thousands of patriotic residents of Minden, Nevada, put Democrat-run cities including Portland, Chicago and Seattle to shame, running far-left BLM protesters out of town as soon as they showed up in the neighborhood and threatened to cause a scene. Several dozen out-of-town far-left protesters gathered for a weekend demonstration in the rural Nevada town, but […]
Rural Whites Shielded From Medicaid Work Requirement Rules
May 22nd, 2018 Awake Goy In April, President Trump signed an executive order allowing some Medicaid recipients to be exempted from requirements that they find jobs or lose their health insurance. Now, the states taking advantage of the order, called “Reducing Poverty in America,” are facing scrutiny for allegedly creating policies that, as Talking Points Memo (TMP) reports, “would in practice shield many […]
