The work of social justice is to free it. author of Medicine Stories and Remedios Power-Under offers important new insights that can help us to break cycles of violence. In her book, Remedios: Stories of Earth and Iron from the History of Puertorriqueas (1998), her goal is to unearth the names of women deemed unimportant by the writers of official histories (Levins Morales, p. That creativity is the single most essential natural resource on earth. Only people who understand and practice interdependence are capable of making good ecological decisions, therefore, anything that threatens human interdependence is also an ecological threat.We have the creativity and intelligence to solve the problems we face, but the vast majority of human ingenuity is tied up in fighting to survive oppression. In Remedios, Levins Morales delves deeply into the past to tell the stories of women who often appear only in the footnotes of historical works, if at all. I plan to do a lot more online teaching and virtual book touring, restart my podcast series, and grow food and medicine while living in my solar powered tiny house. I will be returning to the farm I grew up on in the coffee farming town of Maricao, to write, and do climate justice and food sovereignty organizing. I am part of a movement we're naming rematriation, the return, in particular, of middle aged and old women, loaded with skills, dreams and purpose, to become part of the enriched soil of resistance of Puerto Rico. She is the author of six books including Medicine Stories, Remedios: Stories. I left California on October 11, and expect to arrive in Puerto Rico in late December. Aurora Levins Morales is a Puerto Rican Ashkenazi Jewish feminist writer. And now I am in the middle of an often challenging move. Beginning with the First Mother in sub-Saharan Africa more than 200,000 years ago, Aurora Levins Morales takes us on a journey through time and around the. It happened while sitting in the Cubuy River in eastern Puerto Rico last April-the clear, strong call to return to my homeland, Puerto Rico.

Remedios by Aurora Levins Morales