Northland Films’ GOLD FEVER, a new documentary about international gold mining, World Premieres this Saturday at the Environmental Film Festival at Yale (EFFY). The screening, at the Whitney Center for the Humanities, April 13, 7PM, […]
Source: Truthout The Inter-American Human Rights commission is deliberating a case against the state of Mexico for police violence against women dissidents that has serious implications for the perpetration of sexual violence by police everywhere. […]
Below is a new communique from the Aguan campesino organizations condemning the escalation of violence and the propaganda to justify violence against the campesinos of Aguan. In recent weeks there have been more assassinations and […]
Source: The Guardian Unlimited In Honduras, Reagan-era atrocities are back as the Obama administration funds a state implicated in murdering opponents. The video, caught randomly on a warehouse security camera, is chilling. Five young men […]
The struggle to maintain fertile lands continues to decimate Campesino communities in Honduras. Source: Al Jazeera Under the hot sun of a mid-March afternoon, I sat on a plastic chair outside the gracious home of […]
The largest gold mining company in the world, Barrick Gold and its Chilean subsidiary, Nevada Spa Mining, could lose in the coming months the Pascua deposit worth millions after a series of frauds regarding mining […]
Source: La Silla Vacía “I fear for my life because the threats were very serious, and according to [a credible source] it appears that they were not playing around with the threats.” That is how […]
Source: NACLA Land reform in Bolivia, and the promise of land redistribution from wealthy latifundistas and agrobusiness elites to poor farmers and indigenous communities, has been a hallmark of President Evo Morales’s administration. Recent data […]
Source: Truthout Human Rights Watch spokesperson Reed Brody called it “historic“: on February 28 former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was forced to appear before a Port-au-Prince appeals court to discuss criminal complaints filed against him […]
Source: Desinformemonos “We are governed by injustice”: Alberto Patishtán Gomez, Prison No. 5 San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas Now that hope of a just intervention by the Mexican courts has disappeared, due to the […]
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