Recent Posts by Laura Carlsen
Victoria Esperanza Salazar should not have died

Femicide is a crime foretold, warns lawyer Karla Micheel Salas. Announced, frequently by the victim herself, in denunciations and desperate cries for help that are ignored by the authorities and society. Announced by the conditions of discrimination, threat and vulnerability in which so many women live. Announced, by the numbers of femicides that increase daily. Announced, because of the capitalist-patriarchal system in which we all live, a system that devalues the life of women, especially if they are poor brown migrants with disabilities.
Written on April 8, 2021 at 11:46 am
Categories: Gender Equality, Human Rights, Migration
Tags: El Salvador, gender justice, justice for victoria salazar, Mexico, migration, patriarchy, women
Five years after the “sowing” of Berta Caceres

At the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the organization that Berta Cáceres founded, they have Continue Reading »
Written on April 5, 2021 at 11:46 am
Categories: Human Rights, Land and Territory, social movements
Tags: Berta Cáceres, CENTRAL AMERICA, COPINH, Honduras, Human Rights Defenders
How much is the life of a migrant worth?

The scene is tragic and horrifying. Two burnt out vehicles containing 19 bodies, one of them riddled by 113 bullets, along the hellish slice of borderland in Tamaulipas, near the Nuevo León and Texas.
Written on April 3, 2021 at 1:24 pm
Categories: Migration, social movements
Tags: CENTRAL AMERICA, globalization, Guatemala, Mexico, migration, neoliberalization
Adios Trump: A chance to reset US-Mexico relations

If any country on earth should be breathing a huge sigh of relief about now, it’s Mexico. Four years of bashing, bullying, trade threats and white supremacist machinations now ends with the ignominious exit of Donald J. Trump.
Written on January 4, 2021 at 8:37 pm
Categories: Democracy and Society, Drug War, Gender Equality, Human Rights, social movements
Tags: AMLO, binational movements, Joe Biden, Mexico, NORTH AMERICA
Lopez Obrador’s Visit to Trump is a Betrayal of the U.S. and Mexican People

To praise a tyrant is to insult a people. López Obrador’s proposed visit to Washington is an insult to the American people, and especially to the 37 million Mexican migrants who live in the United States.
Written on July 7, 2020 at 5:16 pm
Categories: Democracy and Society, Human Rights, social movements
Tags: Mexico, NORTH AMERICA, Trump-AMLO
The Day We Made History: International Women’s Day in Mexico City

It was the largest and the boldest Women’s Day march in the history of Mexico City. Tens of thousands of women pulsed through the downtown streets, a river of violet mirrored by the jacaranda trees in full spring bloom. Women of all ages, sectors, classes, barrios, schools and political and sexual orientation marched; they filled the streets with their bodies and their cries.
Written on April 13, 2020 at 4:26 pm
Categories: Gender Equality, social movements
Tags: International Women's Day-Mexico, Mexican feminists, Mexico, NORTH AMERICA
Can Women’s Grassroots Organizing Stop the Rise in Violence Against Women?

When four thousand women from forty-nine countries met in a Zapatista community to find ways to end violence against women, we knew what we were up against. Many, if not most, of the women brought with them the scars of gender violence. We also knew we were meeting at a critical and contradictory point in the history of women’s movements–a point when an all-time high in public attention and mobilization coincides with a rise in the violence the movements aim to stop.
Written on March 16, 2020 at 3:00 pm
Categories: Gender Equality
Tags: Mexico; North America, Second Gatheriing of Women Who Struggle, Violence against Women, Zapatista women
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