“Ten years of grassroots community resistance to gentrification and displacement in El Barrio, New York. Ten years of building a social justice organization based on self-determination, participatory democracy and autonomy. Ten years of majority-women organizing […]
The struggles to defend the earth, water, air and commons in Latin America is ever increasing, with stories of mega mining projects halted by communities using their bodies as blockades and damming projects halted by […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited First steps towards producing shale gas meet with increasing concern among Bolivian civil society The momentum is building. Bolivia’s state oil and gas company YPFB announced in early 2013 it would […]
In Brazil, one of the countries with the highest concentration of land ownership in the world, some 200,000 peasant farmers still have no plot of their own to farm – a problem that the first administration of President Dilma Rousseff did little to resolve. […]
Source: NACLA Report on the Americas The NSA disclosures, Latin American backlash, and what it means for hemispheric relations. As the U.S. government maintains its uneasy silence about the kidnapping and probable murder of 43 […]
Source: The Nation Washington is providing equipment and training to compromised agencies—at the same time that it’s tracking their close ties to organized crime. By February 2010, US consulate officials in Monterrey, Mexico, had long […]
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