From the Heartland, the New Face of Resistance in the U.S.
February 1, 2025
On a bitter January afternoon, hundreds of citizens crowded into a community room in Columbia, Missouri, their winter coats piled in corners, their breath […]
Category: Social Movements
HOW WILL MEXICO’S NEW PRESIDENT DEAL WITH TRUMP, MIGRATION, AND DRUG CARTELS?
January 28, 2025
Laura Carlsen discusses how Claudia Sheinbaum will navigate a series of domestic challenges and a changing U.S.-Mexico relationship. In June 2024, Mexicans elected a […]
Ayotzinapa: From Presidential Promises to Disappointment
July 30, 2024
On June 27, the mothers and fathers of the 43 students forcibly disappeared from the rural teachers’ school in Ayotzinapa made public their position regarding the President Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s extreme defense of the army.
Indigenous Voices bring a reality check at the Assembly of The Peoples of The Earth for The Amazon
September 7, 2023
Peoples’ movements from the pan-Amazon countries published a collective letter with a series of demands in defense of the biome and delivered it to the heads of state meeting at the Amazon Summit on August 8. The movements met in a parallel summit in Belém that emphasized indigenous unity and leadership in the face of the crisis facing the region.
Mexican Army obstructed the investigation of the Ayotzinapa case: Group of Experts
August 16, 2023
“We are concerned about the family members, the impact of this tragedy, their state of health. The reparation of damage must be given to avoid re-victimization and stigmatization. For our part, we kept the investigation even when the crisis came in September 2022. But the refusal to provide information and the stubbornness weakened the investigation”, concluded Angela Buitrago.
Thirty years after the Revolutionary Women’s Law, they denounce “permanent war” against the peoples
August 15, 2023
On August 5 and 6, 2023, 181 women delegates and councilwomen of the CIG-CNI, 27 girls and boys, 14 comrades and 7 support comrades […]
March 8 and the Power of Mexico City’s Feminist Movements
March 16, 2023
March 8 in Mexico is not only a show of strength and convening power for women’s movements, but also an opportunity to see how the movement is changing with the times.
Native leadership, key to open climate justice door
April 18, 2022
With the release in April of the report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the time is ripe to celebrate a breakthrough by Indigenous Peoples in participation on the scientific advisory board that guides global warming policy for 195 U.N. countries. Opinion leaders should push the envelope for more of the same.
Celebrating Water Defenders
March 7, 2022
In Central America communities are being thrust into life and death struggles against powerful interests to ensure clean water and health for future generations.
Indigenous Peoples in Latin America, between States’ criminalization and the violence of armed groups
December 20, 2021
Indigenous Peoples in Latin America are facing a profoundly grave situation. They are on the losing end in the gap between the development of national and international normative standards for the protection of their rights and their lack of implementation on the ground. They not only face the State’s force, imposing “development” projects and dispossessing them from their lands; but also illegal armed groups that dispute their territories with deadly force.