Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Portland Central America Solidarity Committee
Red flags were combined with the indigenous multicolour flag, standards with the face of Che mixed with placards against mega mining.
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The Harper administration has shown it is especially eager to work with Honduran officials since the coup, and Canada’s corporate interests in the country continue to grow.
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Rodolfo Vecino has a death sentence on his head. He has been told he will be kidnapped, tortured and his family will be murdered
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Accepting submissions until March 20th!
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The hambruna, or famine, afflicting the Rarámuri has been attributed to a brutal winter and the worst drought in the region for 71 years. But the media coverage brought attention to the wider conditions of extreme poverty in which some 12 million Mexicans live.
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Thousands of people in the northwest Argentine province of La Rioja are mobilising to stop an open-cast gold mining project in the Nevados de Famatina, a snowy peak that is the semi-arid area’s sole source of drinking water.
Thousands Protest Canadian Mining Project in Argentina Read More »
…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 »
The privileges granted to foreign companies through the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), has recently yielded a torrid legal battle in El Salvador. The Salvadoran government faces two lawsuits for a total of almost $200 million for refusing to grant permissions to companies to carry out open-pit metallic mining in several regions throughout the country.
Transnational Movement “Encachimbados” Brings Occupy Protests to El Salvador 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 »
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.
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