Women's Studies 1021F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Wangari Maathai, Green Belt Movement, 6 Years
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Do not collect wood from fig tree it is a tree of god. For over 30 years, fought for environment, human rights and democracy in kenya. Cut down thousands of trees to build and to farm the land. Formula to weaken infrastructure, make their worshipping"s seem evil and make theirs seem heavenly. When you remove culture from an individual, you kill a part of them. Were kicked out of their land for 6 years. They burned down the forest to find mau mau people. Women were not bothered because no one took them seriously and did not bother their tree planting. When they realized they were grouping together and it was bigger than they thought, they interfered. 1989 green belt movement was really moving, Present moi mocking women and mocking wangari, her friends avoided her and didn"t want to be associated with her. She rebelled at a time when rebellion was not accepted what so.