“If you saw the movie Avatar, the blue people (Na’vi) are like Zapatistas,” Professor Kevin Mann explained to me after some perplexity about the life style of the indigenous people he stayed with during a five month sabbatical. The Zapatistas stand up against globalization just like the Na’vi stood up against the humans trying to mine under their tree of souls. The tree, for the Zapatistas represents a 500 year culture of language and beliefs rooted in the Mayan religion.


Americans are known for their gracious giving all over the world. The disaster in Haiti will be met by incomparable response.


A Poem by AWC student Nathan S. Green

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