Supporters Say Another Mexican Forest Defender Framed
Dashing and handsome, Gabriel Soto shines as the ecological superhero of the currently hot Mexican soap opera Mujer de Madera. He is cast as Carlos Gómez, a passionate, young official of Mexico ‘s Environment and Natural Resources Secretariat who risks his life battling gun-toting caciques (rural bosses), illegal loggers, and psychopathic traffickers of endangered animals. [...]
Read more →The Toxic Border
By David Bacon
In early September 2002, the Coalition for Justice in the Maquiladoras (CJM) put out a call to border activists, urging them to act quickly to salvage one of the few remaining complaints filed under the North American Agreement on Labor Cooperation (NAALC)–the case of mistreated workers at Customtrim/Autotrim. Inside the cavernous San Diego Convention Center, [...]
Read more →“Electoral Cleansing” in Haiti Violates Human Rights and Democracy
By concannon
Haiti is in the midst of a comprehensive program of electoral cleansing. Its ballots are being cleansed of political dissidents, its voting rolls cleansed of the urban and rural poor. The streets are being cleansed of anti-government political activity. This cleansing violates the fundamental human rights guaranteed by the charters and other instruments of the [...]
Read more →Cross-Border Campaign Wins Maquila Union Demands
By enlace
Sweatshop workers at the Pung Kook factory who made international name-brand gear in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, organized themselves to improve conditions on the job. But then their corporate employer beheaded their union local and moved operations overseas, leaving them jobless and without compensation due to them under the law. It was a [...]
Read more →The Implications of Argentina’s Struggle with IMF Debt for Highly Indebted Poor Countries
By mccarthy
On February 4th and 5th, leaders of the G-7 nations convened in London to discuss options for ending the grievous cycle of debt that has plagued the world’s most impoverished nations for years. Announcements and proposals prior to the meetings by officials from the United States and Britain calling for 100% cancellation of multilateral debt [...]
Read more →Legal Questions Mar Colombia’s Paramilitary Disarmament
By logan
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Read more →Militarism and Social Movement
By Raúl Zibechi
“Half of the country is in the hands of the paras,” Paula says by the candlelight in a bar in La Candelaria, the historic old town of Bogotá that has been declared a World Heritage Site. “Wherever they establish their domain, they impose strict rules on daily life and customs: the haircuts of the young [...]
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