Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
The Pentagon signed $444 million in non-fuel contracts for purchases and services in Latin America and the Caribbean during the 2012 fiscal year, an overall decrease of nearly 15% from the previous year.
Pentagon Continues Contracting US Companies in Latin America Read More »
This green-washing of capitalism is not going to solve the global climate crisis, protect our communities from harm, or manage our common resources. Most importantly though, Rio+20 has made it clear that a Green Economy is not a transitional demand toward systemic environmental change.
…it purports to combat global warming without reducing greenhouse gas emissions, and without putting the capitalist system and its excesses—the real causes of environmental disaster—on the table.
REDD in the Lacandon Jungle: The Political Use of a Program Against Climate Change Read More »
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.
Bolivia: General Strike Protests Crackdown on Native March Read More »
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has suspended plans to build a major highway through indigenous peoples’ land in the Amazon rainforest.
Bolivia suspends road project after indigenous protest Read More »
Peoples Agreement World People’s Conference on Climate Change and the Rights of Mother Earth April 22nd, Cochabamba, Bolivia PEOPLES AGREEMENT Today, our Mother Earth is wounded and the future of humanity is in danger. If global warming increases by more than 2 degrees Celsius, a situation that the “Copenhagen Accord” could lead to, there is a
Peoples Agreement from World People’s Conference on Climate Change Read More »
Oscar Olivera Challenges His Old Friend and President Evo Morales’ Administration from Below and to the Left
“The People Are Ultimately Those Who Are in Charge, and the Government Must Know That” Read More »
Law of Mother Earth expected to prompt radical new conservation and social measures in South American nation
Bolivia enshrines natural world’s rights with equal status for Mother Earth Read More »
A combination of widespread drought, followed by intense flooding in some regions; accusations of commodities speculation; alleged smuggling operations sending large amounts of contraband Bolivian goods to neighboring nations; worldwide food price increases; plus Bolivian government plans to control the prices of certain staple goods has caused strikes, protests and nation-wide sugar shortages in recent weeks.
Ongoing, Unresolved Issues Likely to Perpetuate Tension in Bolivia Read More »
Indigenous activists in Bolivia have been holding a mass coca-chewing protest as part of campaign to end an international ban on the practice.
Bolivia: Coca-chewing protest outside US embassy Read More »