February 2021

Mayan beekeeper who fought Monsanto GMO plantings in Mexico wins Goldman Environmental Prize Leydy Pech, a Mayan beekeeper who led a coalition that stopped Monsanto from planting genetically modified crops in seven states in southern Mexico, was recently awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize.Pech, a 55-year-old Indigenous woman from the state of Campeche in Mexico’s Yucatán

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non-linear memories-a few

remember the creeky, narrow, winding stairs up to the bedrooms of the farmhouse remember pumping water from the well outside the kitchen door remember the outhouse remember cows that sleep standing remember riding on the tractor, while the father plowed the field remember the men going out at night to put out a grass fire

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