Month: May 2015
Latin America: Women in Resistance and Resilience
Women have historically resisted against the root causes of the climate crisis – from local, everyday efforts through to directly confronting corporations, mining companies and the governments who threaten their communities and their bodies.
A “Seminar on Critical Thought” Organized by the Zapatistas Draws Over a Thousand Participants in Chiapas
On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, on the wooded campus of the Indigenous Center for Comprehensive Training over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a week-long seminar “Critical Thought versus the Capitalist Hydra.”
What Kind Of Family Does Brazil Want?: Supreme Court Ruling Allows Gay Families To Legally Adopt Their Children
While the Judiciary expanded gay rights, the Legislature was considering a statute that limits the definition of a couple as only that of a man and woman. At the center of the debate are the anxieties of Brazilian society.
“Our Destiny is to Struggle, Always Struggle:” Communiques from the Zapatistas’ Critical Thought vs. the Capitalist Hydra Seminar
From May 2nd to May 9th the Zapatistas hosted a tribute to fallen comrades, a celebration, and a seminar to “provoke thought, reflection, critique.” On May 2nd and May 3rd 2015 the Zapatistas convened a welcome ceremony for the families of Luis Villoro Toranzo, and Zapatista Teacher Galeano, in homage to their lives and their struggles. This celebration inaugurated the seminar, “Critical Thought versus the Capitalist Hydra,” to which they asked its participants to bring “seeds” that they could share with others.
Argentina: Chemical Warfare on Towns
In the small towns of the Argentinean Pampas, glyphosate spraying is making residents sick and poisoning life. Resistance to the model of industrial agriculture is growing day by day.
Brazil’s MST Pays Tribute to Landless Workers Killed by Police in 1996
Landless rural workers occupy farms in Brazil to fulfill the promises and obligations of a people’s agrarian reform movement and to reclaim a sense of justice. Land occupations in Brazil happen continuously throughout the year, however, the month of April – called “Red April” (Abril Vermelho) – pays tribute and remembrance to the Landless Workers Movement’s (MST) fallen comrades of the Eldorado dos Carajas massacre. […]
Latin America’s Social Policies Have Given Women a Boost
(IPS) – Although they do not specifically target women, social policies like family allowances and pensions have improved the lives of women in Latin America, the region that has made the biggest strides so far […]