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  • Illustrations by Christelle Enault

    The Serviceberry: An Economy of Abundance

    FROM THE EDITORS: This article was originally published in Emergence Magazine. We are grateful to them, who have authorized its publication and translation into Spanish in Awasqa. The cool breath of evening slips off the wooded hills, displacing the heat of the day, and with it come the birds, as eager for the cool as…

  • Brazil: Federal Supreme Court Withdraws Decision That May Define the Future of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples

    FROM THE EDITORS: “Marco temporal” is a policy being weighted by the Brazilian Supreme Court, supported by large landowners, to redefine the territoriality of indigenous peoples based on a specific constitutional date (October 5, 1988). Such precedent would ignore the millennial presence of indigenous peoples on land before the existence of the Republic of Brazil,…

  • Petition of the Bolivian Civil Society to Increase the Climate Ambition of the Plurinational State of Bolivia

    FROM THE EDITORS: This is an English translation of a communiqué signed by over 45 organizations in Bolivia, previous to the election, seeking commitment from the new Bolivian government towards climate justice policies.Source: https://www.compromisosporelclimabolivia.org, translated by Awasqa The warning of science is clear. If we do not leave fossil fuels underground and preserve marine ecosystems…

  • Anastasia Mejía y Petrona Siy

    Guatemala: Freedom for Anastasia Mejía and Petrona Siy

    FROM THE EDITORS: Awasqa joins the international call about the unjustified detention of the Xol Abaj Radio and TV’s director, Anastasia Mejía Tiriquiz, who has been in prison since September 22 in Guatemala. We have translated below a communiqué of Guatemalan organizations that are demanding her freedom, as well as that of the social leader…

  • October, month of continental resistance

    Across the continent Indigenous and Black peoples found themselves in multiple acts of resistance and decolonization this past October 12 weekend, in unanimous rejection of European conquerors ravaging the continent of Abya Yala since the 15th century. The month of October has become a symbol of resistance against the Spanish, English, and French empires that…

  • Thinking the World from Bolivia

    FROM THE EDITORS: Bolivia, before Evo, during his government and even after the coup, is a complex universe understood best by those who live its daily dynamic reality. That is why we turn to Rafael Bautista, an indigenous Bolivian philosopher, who makes an in-depth analysis of the political reality of his country. We leave you…

  • US Supreme Court Upholds Tribal Sovereignty in McGirt v. Oklahoma

    SOURCE: Originally published on July 9, 2020, by Indigenous Environmental Network. To learn more about their work, please visit their website at: https://www.ienearth.org/ In a monumental, historic win for tribal sovereignty and Indian Country more broadly, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of the Muscogee (Creek) nation today 5–4, with Justice Gorsuch—a conservative judge and…

  • The Neocolonial Mayan Train

    Marxist theory is built upon a critique of the accumulation of capital in the hands of the bourgeoisie, through the exploitation of workers, for which Karl Marx visualizes a solution of redistribution of capital, now in the hands of the socialist state, with the support of the proletariat. However, within the “worker exploitation” concept and…