Today's quick reads
Three articles selected for you today from New Internationalist magazine.
Mixed Media: Film
Mountains May Depart, by Jia Zhangke, and Makala, by Emmanuel Gras are reviewed this month.
Madness on the Mekong
476 - October, 2014
Shared 54 times.
Tom Fawthrop reports from Southeast Asia, where a series of proposed dams could trigger a food crisis.
Voices under the ice
473 - June, 2014
Shared 9 times.
Nora Marks Dauenhauer was born in 1927 into the Tlingit aboriginal nation of Alaska. A poet, short-story writer and scholar, she has dedicated much of her life to preserving and promoting the Tlingit language.
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