2014 – Page 35 – Upside Down World

Honduras: The Deep Roots of Resistance

April 23, 2014 Alexander Main 0

The FNRP emerged out of the opposition to the coup and quickly developed into the largest social movement in Honduran history. Loosely organized into collectives at the local and regional level, the resistance includes a rainbow of movements: union activists, teachers, lawyers, artists, indigenous and Afro-indigenous villagers, small farmers, LGBT activists, and human rights defenders, with ideological tendencies ranging from the center left to the far left.

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US Continues Ransoming Development Aid, Now Using CAFTA to Threaten Social Programs

April 23, 2014 CISPES 0

Source: CISPES The US’s ransoming of development aid has entered a new phase in El Salvador. Not content with the passage of the controversial Public-Private Partnership (P3) Law, nor with its modification by way of […]

Ecuadorian Military Breaks Yasunidos Blockade

April 22, 2014 Amazon Watch 0

Yasunidos Defends Signatures and Denounces Electoral Irregularities Quito, Ecuador – Just five days after turning in more than enough signatures to qualify for a national referendum to stop oil drilling plans in a critical part […]

The Struggle Over Sumak Kawsay in Ecuador

April 22, 2014 Carlos Zorrilla 0

“In its most general sense, buen vivir [Sumak Kawsay] denotes, organizes, and constructs a system of knowledge and living based on the communion of humans and nature and on the spatial-temporal harmonious totality of existence. That is, on the necessary interrelation of beings, knowledges, logics, and rationalities of thought, action, existence, and living. This notion is part and parcel of the cosmovision, cosmology, or philosophy of the indigenous peoples of Abya Yala.”

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Colombia: Bogotá Mayor’s Ouster Undermines Political Struggle for an Inclusive City

April 21, 2014 Emily Achtenberg 0

Source: NACLA On March 19, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos upheld the ouster of Bogotá’s embattled leftist mayor Gustavo Petro, concluding—at least for the moment—a three-month legal and political battle that began when Inspector General […]

Commentary – Lies and Deceit: One Neighbor’s Deportation Sheds Light on the Inhumanity of US Immigration Enforcement

April 21, 2014 Daniela Maria Ugaz 0

I remember jolting awake at 6 AM. Still dark. Someone was banging on my neighbors’ door. I could hear whispering, then screaming. When I opened my eyes, just like that, I made out two, three, four distinct voices. Months later, my neighbor, who I’ll call Beto, told me there must have been 10 to 12 police officers at his door that morning. They were definitely police and not Immigration.

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Peoples’ Encounter in Resistance Against the Extractive Mining Model in Mexico

April 21, 2014 James Rodríguez, MiMundo.org 0

The Mexican Network of Mining-Affected Peoples (REMA, for its initials in Spanish) and the Mesoamerican Movement against the Mining Extractive Model (M4) organized a three-day nationwide encounter in the Northern Sierra of Puebla where hundreds of mining-affected community members from numerous states participated in talks and workshops where experiences, strategies for the defense of the territory, and socio-environmental impacts were shared and exchanged.

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Year: 2014