Year: 2013
Chile: Time for Starbucks to Stop Union Busting
The International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC ) is extremely concerned about the situation of workers’ rights at Starbucks in Chile. In October, as it announced record profits, the company rejected all Starbucks Workers´ Union demands, […]
This Is Peace: “Walking The Word” in Colombia
Organized by the Peace Community of San José de Apartadó, 150 people converged upon the village of Rodoxalí to confirm and confront the presence of death-squad paramilitary groups. The pilgrimage was organized in response to reports that four people had been killed, and paramilitaries had kidnapped and disappeared a young man and demanded that the area’s campesinos (small-scale farmers) give them information and supplies. An estimated 28 families subsequently fled their homes in fear.
Colombia-Ecuador: Serious Revelations About Spraying Glyphosate on the Border
Source: La W Radio The Colombian Foreign Ministry’s unlawful eavesdropping on academic research and official documents based on investigations into former contractors of Monsanto are part of the irregularities reported by the director of the […]
Opposition Use Presidential Security Decree to Label Venezuelan Government “Dictatorial”
Source: Venezuelanalysis.com Earlier this month president Nicolas Maduro created a security body, the CESSPA, to coordinate information from intelligence organizations. Opposition spokespeople and private media have categorised the new body as “Castro-esque”, “dictatorial”, and “limiting […]
Mexico: San Sebastián Bachajón, Six Months after the Assassination of Juan Vázquez Guzmán
“Although the rulers do not like it, we will continue defending our territory because this is where we come from, and we are not leaving despite their repression and corruption” say the ejidatarios of San Sebastián Bachajón, who denounce the murder with impunity of their leader Juan Vázquez Guzmán, and request the intervention of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Nation to protect their rights and the integrity of their territory.
US Speaking Tour – From the Mines to the Streets: A Bolivian Activist’s Life
In October and November, Bolivian author and activist, Felix Muruchi will be speaking in the northeastern US and Chicago area about current process of social change. He is co-author with Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing […]
Chixoy Dam Justice And Reparations Delayed: 31.5 Years And Counting
The government of Guatemala rejects obligation to fund Chixoy dam Reparations Plan, pretends to carry out government ‘community development’ projects. The World Bank and Inter-American Development Bank remain silent about on-going suffering and the Guatemalan […]
Colombia: Paramilitary Group Threatens Indigenous Protesters with ‘Social Cleansing’
“Given the reports of excessive force used against indigenous protesters in the past 10 days, we have very serious concerns about the safety of the indigenous leaders and members of the organizations named in the paramilitary death threat,” said Amnesty International’s Marcelo Pollack.