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Polinizaciones: Cross-Pollinating Experiences in Communications and Culture in Defense of Mother Earth

October 30, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Polinizaciones started simply in 2007, as an initiative of an autonomous pollinator of the Beehive Collective to distribute Plan Colombia posters to communities engaged in land defense and directly impacted by the USA´s military intervention in the region as part of the “War on Drugs.” Since then, Polinizaciones has evolved and metamorphosed into a grassroots network of cultural workers and communicators that use Beehive Collective graphics, street theater, photo & video, murals, social cartography and other arts-based strategies in the promoting a culture of resistance.

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Comunalidad as the Axis of Oaxacan Thought in Mexico

October 27, 2015 Upside Down World 0

The history of Oaxaca has been interwoven with principles and values that display its deeply rooted comunalidad. For the Oaxacan people across many centuries, this has meant integrating a process of cultural, economic, and political resistance of great importance. In Oaxaca, the vitality of comunalidad as it presents itself witnesses the integration of four basic elements: territory, governance, labor, and enjoyment (fiesta). The principles and values that articulate these elements are respect and reciprocity.

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Our Brand is Crisis Parody Site Shows How 2002 Bolivian Election Resulted a Year Later in 68 Deaths

October 26, 2015 Upside Down World 0

US activists have launched a parody website, Ourbrandiscrisis.org, as George Clooney’s new film, Our Brand is Crisis, opens throughout the US (Oct. 30). Modeled on the official website, the parody website tells the little-known story of the deadly consequences and grave injustice that resulted from the 2002 Bolivian elections covered in the film.

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Mexican Farmers Accuse Mining Companies of Shady Tactics in Chiapas

October 25, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: Truthout Alberto Villatoro, a farmer in the fertile region of Los Cacaos in Chiapas, Mexico, recalls, with a mixture of sadness and anger, how innocently he used to walk over the area’s silvery blue […]

It’s Time for Autonomy in Brazil

October 25, 2015 Upside Down World 0

The Workers Party (PT) has not proven its ability – and in many cases not even shown a desire – to respond to the demands of social movements and diverse groups. They have not made any clear effort to enact agrarian reform, protect indigenous lands or impose stricter norms on sectors such as agribusiness or the communication oligopoly. Yet once more, the orthodox core of the Workers Party is singing the same song: “Support us unconditionally, for we are the only alternative to the threat posed by the right.”

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Guatemalan Indigenous Communities Resist Mega Cement Factory Despite Military Occupation

October 22, 2015 Upside Down World 0

The residents of Santa Fe Ocaña, and the other Kaqchikel communities of San Juan Sacatepéquez have lived under a semi-permanent state of exception since September 2014. The order was reportedly lifted on October 31, but the police and military remained, forming permanent encampments in the towns of Pajoques and Santa Fe Ocaña.

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Thousands reject the extractivist logic at the World Bank-IMF meeting in Peru

October 21, 2015 Upside Down World 0

The annual governors’ meeting of the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank opened on October 5 in Peru’s capital city. In the meeting, an estimated 800 representatives from 188 countries were negotiating the shape of the world’s soon-to-be renovated finance infrastructure. […]

Will the Economic Policies of Argentina’s President Survive Sunday’s Elections?

October 21, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: The Nation Cristina Fernández is despised by the neoliberal elite, but her government has improved the lives of many, many people. Over the last few years, as Argentina has struggled with a sagging economy […]

Structural Challenges Underlie Argentina’s General Elections

October 21, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: NACLA Report on the Americas On October 25th Argentines go to the polls for general elections that will shape the future of Latin America’s third largest economy. In the wake of Hugo Chavez’s death […]

Venezuela: The Meeting of a Feminist and Communal School

October 21, 2015 Upside Down World 0

Source: Cultura Nuestra Translated by Venezuelanalysis. On October 2-4th 2015, feminist movements and collectives from across Venezuela came together for the third National School of People’s Feminism. In the summary that follows, the People’s Feminist […]