(IPS) – A protestor held out a handful of metal dust, part of the “silvery rain” falling that day in Santa Cruz, a low-income neighbourhood on the west side of this Brazilian city, as proof […]
Source: Haiti Liberte Seven years after he was kidnapped and exiled to Africa after the Feb. 29, 2004 coup d ‘etat, former president Jean Bertrand Aristide finally has a passport that will allow him […]
Communities and officials demand that government protect the people from poisonous industries. Source: Al Jazeera Boanerge Lovo lives in a subsistence community on Isla de Monte Cristo near the central coast of El Salvador. […]
Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields. Source: Al Jazeera While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in […]
(IPS) – The plaintiffs in the case against Chevron tried in Ecuador, who won a historic 9.5 billion dollar verdict after a nearly 18-year struggle over environmental and health damages caused in a quarter-century of […]
(IPS) – “We want to shout out to the world, and no one will be able to keep us silent: forced displacement is still happening in Colombia, which is why we are asking for solidarity. […]
The Landless Workers Movement has given 350,000 families a new livelihood since 1988 Source: On the Commons Like in so many other Latin American countries, Brazil’s national history is rooted in colonialism, exploitation and […]
Source: Guatemala Solidarity Project Thousands of q’eqchi’ peasants near Livingston, Guatemala had been anticipating February 14, 2011 as a possible day of joy and celebration. Instead it became a day of unbearable grief after the bodies […]
(Tierramérica) – The booming tourist industry along Mexico’s Caribbean coast, particularly in the area of Cancún and the “Riviera Maya,” is polluting the world’s largest underwater cave system and harming the world’s second largest coral […]
(Tierramérica) – As freshwater disappears from the super-populated Peruvian coast, the most water-intensive crops are expanding unabated as highly profitable exports. Observers warn about the harm this is causing and demand greater responsibility from the […]
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