A great review of The World According to Monsanto plus interview with author Marie-Monique Robin from the Indian press. Listen out for Marie-Monique on ABC Radio National's Bush Telegraph later this month.

Environmental activist, ecofeminist and author, Dr Vandana Shiva will be in Sydney and Melbourne to accept her award. Read a profile in the Age and watch her on Lateline.

Gail Dines featured with Melinda Tankard Reist on Late Night Live on Wednesday. Click on the link to listen now. Also, two insightful and thought-provoking articles from The Age and SMH.

Kathleen Barry blogs about the empathy as the world watched the plight of the Chilean miners and asks why it's missing in our understanding of war.

Maria Mies in conversation with Phillip Adams on post-war Germany, cross-cultural love affairs, introductions to Marxism and how gardening is a means to 'the good life': Late Night Live.

Kathleen Barry talks with Phillip Adams on Late Night Live about her book Unmaking War Remaking Men.

An opinion piece by Pornland author Gail Dines in the SMH and three erudite and passionate interviews on Lateline, World Today and Ultra 106.5fm

Getting Real contributor Lauren Rosewarne writes on ABC Unleashed about the recent AFL furore: "A woman can’t be a little bit pregnant, she can’t be a little bit dead, she can’t be a little bit equal, and she most certainly can’t be a little bit sexually assaulted."

Congratulations to Susan Hawthorne on the shortlisting of her poetry collection Earth's Breath for the Judith Wright Prize in the ACT Book of the Year Awards.

See Di Bell speaking about the imminent release of the Murray-Darling Basin plan on the 7.30 Report."These floodwaters at the moment are kind of a gift to the authority to allow them to have their plan, do the things that it should do, restore the health of the river and the resilience."