Dear Readers: We’ve been holding out our big redesign for months now, but it really is going to happen this summer. We also need to find a new host, so if any readers can recommend one, please get in touch…. Read moreThe Change is Coming…
Continue ReadingThe Change is Coming…Electronic Journal & Daily Report REDD: LAND-GRAB IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATIONPeruvian Rainforest Dwellers Charge Privatization Schemeby Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today OCCUPY GUATEMALA!Shantytown Dwellers Fight —And Winby Frauke Decoodt, World War 4 Report MEXICAN HIGH-TECH WORKERS DEMAND… Read moreIssue #178, Summer 2012
by T Navajyoti, World War 4 Report In Northeast India, which has faced decades of unrest, energy has emerged as a critical issue for the region’s popular movements. The state of Assam particularly has witnessed a series of sustained demonstrations… Read moreINDIA: PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO MEGA-HYDRO IN ASSAM
Continue ReadingINDIA: PASSIVE RESISTANCE TO MEGA-HYDRO IN ASSAMby Kent Paterson, Frontera NorteSur The two high-tech workers laughed when asked if they could afford the smartphones made by their colleagues on Mexican production lines. “No, no, no,” chuckled Maria and Alma, two Guadalajara workers who have labored for… Read moreMEXICAN HIGH-TECH WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICE
Continue ReadingMEXICAN HIGH-TECH WORKERS DEMAND JUSTICEObama's Message to the Latin American Governments by Emma Volante, Upside Down World On Dec. 5, 2011, representatives from Mexico, Colombia and the countries of Central American attended the 13th Summit of the Tuxtla Mechanism for Dialogue and Coordination in… Read moreMESOAMERICA PROJECT
Continue ReadingMESOAMERICA PROJECTShantytown Dwellers Occupy Congress—And Win by Frauke Decoodt, World War 4 Report As crisis and poverty escalate in the Western world, activists in Europe and North America occupied city squares everywhere. In Guatemala City, however, an independent movement existed, as… Read moreOCCUPY GUATEMALA
Continue ReadingOCCUPY GUATEMALAby Carmelo Ruiz-Marrero, CorpWatch Repsol, a multinational based in Spain, has brought a class action lawsuit in New York courts against the Argentine government for the re-nationalization of YPF, the former Argentine state oil company. The company has also lodged a… Read moreREPSOL SUES ARGENTINA OVER YPF NATIONALIZATION
Continue ReadingREPSOL SUES ARGENTINA OVER YPF NATIONALIZATIONPeruvian Rainforest Dwellers Charge Privatization Scheme by Bill Weinberg, Indian Country Today When the United Nations process on climate change unveiled the program known as Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) three years ago, it was hailed as… Read moreREDD: LAND-GRAB IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION?
Continue ReadingREDD: LAND-GRAB IN THE NAME OF CLIMATE CHANGE MITIGATION?
