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Conference for Water and Pachamama

Posted 28 July 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Citizen Action, Indigenous People, Integration & Trade, Right-to-Know & Communications Rights, South America | No Comments

Nearly two thousand activists explored extractivism over three days in the city of Cuenca, Ecuador, at the Continental Conference for Water and Pachamama, debating the problems created by the extractive model and possible alternatives. The Conference Ethics Tribunal condemned militarization and the criminalization of protest, which are integral parts of the extractive model.

The Qom, the Indigenous People Who Came to Buenos Aires

The Qom, the Indigenous People Who Came to Buenos Aires

Posted 15 June 2011 | By | Categories: Biodiversity & Sustainable Development, Indigenous People, South America | No Comments

The Qom community of The Primavera is made up of some 4500 inhabitants. As is true with almost all indigenous communities in Argentina, their circumstances are virtually ignored in a society that thinks of itself as “descended from ships.” However, the fight for land and territory that continues in their state of Formosa has grown to such a size that it has broken through the media barrier that usually keeps the interior of the country invisible to those in Buenos Aires.