NAFTA 101 Briefing Series: Agriculture and Migration
July 12, 2017
NAFTA’s impact on small-scale agriculture in Mexico and an Agenda for Reforms.
Category: Social Movements
Hope Springs from the People’s Summit
June 26, 2017
There were many hundreds of young people who traveled from all over the country to be part of the People’s Summit. To be part of the change, because NO is not enough.
Refugees: Caught Between Violence and Persecution
May 19, 2017
This viacrucis, or Stations of the Cross, was made up of about 300 migrants, including women and children, who traveled through Mexico, ending up in Mexico City. According to one of its communiqués, its fundamental purpose is “to escape the southern border, which has condemned many people without papers to precarious work, discrimination and the absence of state protection.”
Fear and Resistance on the Border of Trump America
May 18, 2017
The Caravan Against Fear set out from Sacramento April 10 in eight white vans that carried some fifty people, most of us strangers before the trip. We traced the border from California to Texas and back again, and learned about friendship, solidarity and resistance on the border of Trump America.
Early Dakota Access Pipeline Spill Angers Tribal Chairs
May 18, 2017
Tribal chairmen decried the newly finished Dakota Access Pipeline when reports surfaced that its first crude oil spill in South Dakota occurred even before the private infrastructure project went into service.
On May Day, Protestors Show Transnational Unity As Tensions Heighten
May 16, 2017
May Day is a transnational event in the Paso del Norte borderlands of El Paso-Ciudad Juarez-southern New Mexico. At this year’s demonstrations, U.S. and Mexican activists joined together to denounce Trump administration immigration policies, current and looming wars, Peña Nieto administration economic and labor reforms, femicides, the forced disappearance of the 43 Ayotzinapa college students, attacks on workers, and Mexico’s pending internal security law.
El Salvador, First Latin American Country to Prohibit Mining
May 11, 2017
The law, which only has 11 articles, prohibits the exploration and exploitation of metals in the country by domestic or foreign companies or persons, and prohibits the use of toxic substances that endanger the health of peasant communities and the environment.
Dismantling a Rotten Power Structure: Zapatista Forum Analyzes Mexican Electoral Politics
May 11, 2017
The collective space created in the gathering of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI) is promoting the Indigenous Council of Government. Its councilors – one woman and one man per village – will be elected in May and their spokeswoman will run as an independent candidate in the 2018 presidential campaign.
ICE Raids and Sanctuary Churches in the State of New York
April 18, 2017
Migrants in Buffalo, New York, where many await asylum hearings, fear that Trump’s anti-immigrant policies have stoked a new racism that has become evident the past few months.
Fighting Fear, Hundreds Join Border Caravan For Migrant Rights
April 12, 2017
Union members, migrants, government officials and grassroots organizers chanted and marched before stepping up to the mike in the shadow of the Federal Building in Sacramento to tell their stories and make promises. The Caravan against Fear is under way in California.