Urgent Communication: Solidarity With El Estor, Izabal, Guatemala Just Associated (JASS)
November 15, 2021
El Estor: The peaceful resistance of the Q’eqchi ‘people under siege is everyone’s struggle
Category: Social Movements
Civil-society groups urge Mexico to reject renewed attack on asylum
September 19, 2021
More than 70 civil-society organizations have sent a letter to the Mexican government (reprinted below) urging it to refuse to cooperate with a controversial […]
The Exaggerated Death of Mexico’s Drug War
August 9, 2021
If this announcement, like previous ones, is merely a way of marking rhetorical distance from the U.S. government without charting a completely different and sovereign national security policy, we´ll be where we started–with uncontrolled violence in many parts of the country.
A Trarilongko Mapuche in Cuba
July 23, 2021
My ñuke, mother, taught us to bring out the best in ourselves in our fight against hunger: creativity, imagination, solidarity and persistence. These attributes I found in the Cuban people.
Organizational Sign-on Statement on David Castillo trial for murder of Berta Cáceres
June 23, 2021
The March 2, 2016 murder of Honduran indigenous rights defender Berta Cáceres, Coordinator of the Lenca organization COPINH, provoked indignation in Honduras and around the world. Berta was murdered while supporting Indigenous Lenca communities in opposing the Agua Zarca Hydroelectric Project that was being advanced through a public limited company created for the project, Desarrollos Enérgeticos S.A. (DESA).
The Paths of Justice for Berta
June 22, 2021
On March 2, 2016, the world suffered the murder of land defender Berta Cáceres. From that moment, those of us who took on the fight for justice pointed out that this act was aimed at stopping the struggle of the Lenca people in defense of the Gualcarque River.
In Guatemala, Harris Should Address U.S. Policies That Put Corporations Over People
June 21, 2021
As the Vice President seeks to remedy root causes of migration, she should vow to dismantle neoliberal rules that have been devastating for rural and Indigenous peoples.
Colombia, Between Extermination and Emancipation
June 8, 2021
his phase of resistance began with a shout of protest against a new policy that would levy taxes on basic products and services, raising the cost of living in a country where unemployment, poverty and inequality are at unprecedented levels. It has now become a struggle between extermination and emancipation.
The defense of the Body-Territory
May 5, 2021
This Earth Day, four women defenders from four countries came together to reflect on their struggles defending the body-territory. They emphasized that the relationship of women’s bodies with the earth, its natural resources, and the mutual care that this implies, is reflected in the types of threats and forms of violence against women’s bodies and against the earth that emanate from the same capitalist-patriarchal system that seeks total domination of both territories.
Five years after the “sowing” of Berta Caceres
April 5, 2021
At the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the organization that Berta Cáceres founded, they have a saying “Berta did […]