... movements have lost similar battles all over the world, so what else was critical to their achievement? One factor was La Mesa’s education campaigns, which creatively spread the word on the science of ...
... the American Rescue Plan, Congress’s next big relief bill will focus on building a green infrastructure — and it can create tens of thousands of good, dignified union jobs in the process.
Movements that ...
... them against mining. They called themselves pro-water. Their whole movement was for saving the water of El Salvador. Now, that was part of what was effective.
Marco Werman: So the book recounts two victories ...
... introduced himself as follows:
“I’m Jeremias & I’m 64 years old. I’m a father and a member of a peasant enterprise of the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguan (MUCA). I have been in jail since December ...
... what pushing back against Canadian corporate interests can do. In 2011, Aduviri, an Indigenous Aymara leader from Peru’s Puno region, helped lead a protest movement against a silver mine in the region ...
... movement and defeat policy violence.”
—Rev. Dr. William Barber II, national co-chair of the Poor People’s Campaign and author of The Third Reconstruction
“When the story of the courageous Salvadoran ...
... Service, the Kenoly Foundation of Canada, and the Canadian embassy. At the local level, ADES has made alliances with the Movement of Organic Agriculture of El Salvador (MAOES). ”.
Basic foodstuffs produced ...
... International Indigenous Peoples Movement for Self-Determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) Rights are earned through hard-fought struggles. And for Indigenous Peoples (IP), its fulfillment comes from the ...
... were widely condemned by environmental movements, labor, feminist and student movements, as well as by international organizations. So far, the U.S. Embassy has stayed on the margins of this debate, at ...
... the park, the Honduran Council of Private Companies called on authorities and the Hernández administration to respond to the standstill at mine sites around the country caused by local resistance movements. ...
... Róchez, and Junior Mejía—out of their homes. They have not been seen since.
The men were kidnapped on a Saturday during which the State of Honduras restricted civilian movement due to Covid-19, allowing ...
... the criminalization of human rights defenders in Honduras.
As an alliance of environmental organizations and social movements, we reiterate the urgency of building models of sustainable development, ...
... the attacks against Yoni Rivas of the Agrarian Platform and the Unified Peasant Movement of Aguán (MUCA), who is based in the Lower Aguán Region is currently unable to leave the area due to the curfew, ...
... physical and psychological violence. With increased social control of entire populations during the pandemic, the risks are even greater as people’s movements are contained and as companies and governments ...
... movement and a clear message to local water defenders that pro-mining interests were willing to go beyond typical criminalization tactics to have the mining project up and running. But far from intimidating ...
... movement demands not only the prompt discussion of the issue in the commission but also its approval in parliamentary headquarters. The approval of the Water Law must include the recognition of the human ...
... of environmental movements, the Academy and the churches, presented on February 6 of this year. 3.- Streamline the discussion to generate a favorable opinion and be able to bring the proposal to the legislative ...
... rights and become benchmarks for addressing various problems that affect them, civil society must carry out the social struggle. This has led civil society to transcend social movements in the region and ...
... from Otros Mundos Chiapas in his opening remarks. “That painful moment has become the wind that gives us strength... What better way to celebrate his life as part of social movements, than by honoring ...
... according to Aduviri, Luque opted for a personalist management style. This decision led him away from the program plan of the My Region movement, which brought Aduviri and Luque to power.
The regional ...