Popular Movement Stands Up to Privatization by Jason Wallach, Upside Down World When residents in Santa Eduviges entered their second month without running water, everyone knew something had to be done. A meeting was called. Community members expressed outrage that… Read moreEL SALVADOR’S WATER: NOT FOR SALE
Continue ReadingEL SALVADOR’S WATER: NOT FOR SALECanadian Mining Project Tainted by Rights Abuses by Cyril Mychalejko, Upside Down World “Welcome to Ascendant Copper, a socially responsible corporate citizen,” states the Canadian mining company’s website. Ascendant also boasts of being a member of the UN Global Compact…. Read moreECUADOR: CAMPESINO RESISTANCE TO ASCENDANT COPPER
Continue ReadingECUADOR: CAMPESINO RESISTANCE TO ASCENDANT COPPERRevolution or Populist Theater? by Dan La Botz, Mexican Labor News & Analysis Two months after Mexico’s contested July 2 presidential elections, the Federal Electoral Tribunal recognized Felipe Calderón as president-elect, while a massive National Democratic Convention has proclaimed Andrés… Read moreMEXICO’S TWO PRESIDENTS
Continue ReadingMEXICO’S TWO PRESIDENTSThe African Liberation Forces of Mauritania Speakon Slavery and Genocide in the Sahel by Bill Weinberg At opposite ends of Africa’s Sahel, Sudan and Mauritania hold the distinction of being two nations where the practice of slavery remains intact at… Read moreFROM DARFUR TO MAURITANIA
Continue ReadingFROM DARFUR TO MAURITANIAfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas HONDURAS: GARIFUNA WOMAN MURDERED On the evening of Aug. 6, a group of masked men armed with AK-47 assault rifles forced 19-year-old Mirna Isabel Santos Thomas from her home in the Honduran Garifuna… Read moreCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDERED
Continue ReadingCENTRAL AMERICA: ANTI-MINING PROTESTS, ACTIVISTS MURDEREDBiopreparat: Biowar on Steroids, Soviet-Style by Mark Sanborne Earlier installments in this series focused primarily on the US role in secretly researching, developing, and disseminating biological warfare agents through both tests and accidental releases, as well as deliberate attacks on… Read more“BIONOIA” Part 5
Continue Reading“BIONOIA” Part 5from Weekly News Update on the Americas On Aug. 16, members of the Shipiba indigenous community of Canaan de Cashiyacu seized nine oil wells operated by the Maple Gas Corporation in Maquia district, Ucayali province, in the Peruvian Amazon region… Read morePERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITY
Continue ReadingPERU: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY OIL FACILITYfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas On July 29, thousands of Venezuelan campesinos and supporters marched in the city of San Felipe, capital of Yaracuy state, to demand land reform and protest attacks on campesino leaders. The March for… Read moreVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LAND
Continue ReadingVENEZUELA: CAMPESINOS MARCH FOR LANDfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas CAUCA: NASA TAKE BACK THE LAND On Aug. 4, a group of more than 500 organized indigenous Colombians from the municipalities of Jambalo, Caloto, Toribio and Caldono in Cauca department began occupying the… Read moreCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATES
Continue ReadingCOLOMBIA: INDIGENOUS OCCUPY ESTATESfrom Weekly News Update on the Americas During the week of Aug. 14, some 500 indigenous Guarani people began an occupation at the Parapeti station of the Yacuiba-Rio Grande gas pipeline (GASYRG) near Charagua, in the eastern Bolivian department of… Read moreBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINE
Continue ReadingBOLIVIA: INDIGENOUS SEIZE GAS PIPELINEThe Labor Crisis Behind the Electoral Crisis by David Bacon, TruthOut NACOZARI, Sonora – Just days after conservative candidate Felipe Calderon declared himself the winner of Mexico’s July 2 presidential election, the Mexican federal labor board lowered the boom on… Read moreMEXICAN MINERS FACE LOCK-OUT
Continue ReadingMEXICAN MINERS FACE LOCK-OUTUrban Gardening and Self-Sufficiency in Caracas by April M. Howard, Toward Freedom In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Norali Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of… Read moreVENEZUELA: THE GREENING OF THE REVOLUTION
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