Political Statement of the Continental Meeting of Communication of ALBA MOVIMIENTOS Today we have a Motherland! And whatever happens, under any circumstance, we will still have a Motherland. Unity! Unity and more unity! There will always be someone who will try to take advantage of difficult times to keep trying […]
By: Patricia Horrillo / Source: kaosenlared.net / The Dawn News / February 21, 2016. “Rather than acknowledging the fundamental role of people in society, many governments have proposed to completely quell criticism in their country. They have skipped their own laws in their crackdowns against citizens”. In its last report […]
By: Raúl Zibechi / Source: Aporrea / The Dawn News / February 21, 2016 A new right is emerging in the world and in Latin America, where it has distinctive characteristics and new and unseen grassroots. To combat it, it is necessary to know it, to avoid simplistic judgements and […]
By: Eduardo Febbro / Source: Página 12 / The Dawn News / February 25, 2016. Over 22 years after the birth of the Zapatista movement, on December 31, 1993, Justice suspended the arrest orders against Subcommander Marcos, former leader of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation. From Mexico City Subcommander […]
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 25, 2016 Contact: [email protected] www.facebook.com/mcgillbds On February 22, 2016, the General Assembly of the Students’ Society of McGill University (SSMU) voted in favour of a motion to support Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaigns on campus. The motion was put forth by the McGill BDS Action Network, a […]
Statement / The Dawn News / February 26, 2016 Tegucigalpa, Honduras / February 20 and 21, 2016 Reunited in the II Mesoamerican Meeting of articulation of Social Movements towards the Bolivarian Alliance of the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), with the presence of leaders of the national chapters of Mexico, […]
Source http://glacierhub.org/ In December 2015, while the world’s eyes were on the UN Climate Conference in Paris, Bolivia’s Lake Poopó—once the country’s second-largest lake, with an area of 2700 square kilometers–dried up completely. This event was first recognized by the regional government, located in Oruro, and soon drew national and international […]
Source http://petras.lahaine.org / By James Petras Introduction: The class struggle from above found its most intense , comprehensive and retrograde expression in Argentina, with the election of Mauricio Macri (December 2015). During the first two months in office, through the arbitrary assumption of emergency powers, he reversed, by decree, a multitude […]
By: Horacio Duque / Source: Kaosenlared.net / The Dawn News / February 25, 2016. To add to the massive tax cuts, equivalent to 6 million pesos ordered on Monday 22 February, the Colombian government took austerity measures to unload the economic crisis on the country’s poorest. So trade unions, and […]
Source TeleSur.net / The Dawn News / February 24, 2016. Constitutional lawyer Enrique Tineo explained that the so-called amnesty law seeks peace by way of oblivion. One of the laws promoted by the Venezuelan right since they won the majority in the National Assembly is the “Law on Amnesty […]
