Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Bolivia’s main trade union declared a 24-hour general strike Wednesday to protest Sunday’s police crackdown on indigenous demonstrators who were protesting the construction of a road through a pristine rainforest preserve.
The Annihilating Language of the Left Meets the Language of Humanity of Drug War Victims
The US-based Monsanto company, the world’s biggest seed company and undisputed world leader in agricultural biotechnology, announced in June 2011 that it would increase its activities in Puerto Rico.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has suspended plans to build a major highway through indigenous peoples’ land in the Amazon rainforest.
Half of the Nahua died after their land was first opened up by Shell for oil exploration in the 1980s.
Masked demonstrators throw rocks at police vehicles nicknamed ‘guanacos’ after the species of llamas who spits with angry.
“The government betrayed you, and we, without realising what you had shown us, fell back into the state’s game of government corruption and the pretence of a democratic transition. As a result of that forgetfulness, the social fabric of the nation was torn even more,” Sicilia told the Zapatistas in Oventic.
The Northwest Immigrant Youth Alliance Comes out of the Shadows at the Tacoma, Washington Detention Center.
While the detention complex continues to balloon and the Obama administration has tallied up more than one million deportations while states pass increasingly restrictive anti-immigrant laws, artists are redefining the fight by using culture as a weapon.
PCASC will be screening the American Drug War: The Last White Hope on Monday 9/12 at 6:30 PM at In Other Words Feminist Community Center (14 NE Killingsworth St). The movie will be followed by a discussion.