(IPS) Nativos de 356 comunidades que participaron la semana pasada en protestas y choques contra fuerzas del gobierno de Perú, en esta provincia de la región norteña de Amazonas, priorizan ahora el registro de sus […]
Pronuncimiento del Bloque de Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas del Norte Amazónico de Bolivia (BOCINAB) Considerando que, de acuerdo a la historia, en la Amazonía los pueblos amazónicos han sido objeto de desprecio, de esclavismo, humillación […]
In Venezuela they are a key force in the country’s ongoing media-war. Armed with video cameras, they are a team of some 380 young people working for Caracas television station, Avila TV. Started as an experiment just three years ago, according to one study it is now the third most watched station in the city. Funded completely by the government, they consider themselves a voice of President Hugo Chavez’s “socialist revolution.” […]
Five thousand Indigenous peoples from across the Americas gathered in the Peruvian highland city of Puno during the last week of May for the Fourth Continental Summit of Indigenous Peoples and Nationalities of Abya Yala. The meeting ended with a massive plenary session that approved resolutions providing alternatives to the capitalist crisis that western civilization is currently experiencing. […]
Source: The Real News Clashes between police and indigenous protesters over drilling for oil and gas in rain forest Recent free trade agreements signed with the American and Canadian governments fueled the government to go […]
Leaders of the two-month roadblock say at least 40 indigenous people, including three children, were killed and that the authorities are covering up the massacre by throwing bodies in the river.
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Source: World War 4 Report Nine more police officers were reportedly killed in a standoff with indigenous protesters in Peru’s Amazonas region June 6, bringing the total dead since the previous day’s police attack on […]
Source: NACLA On June 6, near a stretch of highway known as the Devil’s Curve in the northern Peruvian Amazon, police began firing live rounds into a multitude of indigenous protestors – many wearing feathered […]
From Cultural Survival Cultural Survival is partnering with Global Response on this action. Since April 9th communities in the Peruvian Amazon have been protesting new laws passed by President Alan Garcia’s government that usher in […]
Source: Z Communications Sweet tale of a crisis, Arrufat Chocolate without a boss We all know the childhood tale of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory best emulated in the psychedelic inspired 1971 film. Charlie a […]
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