Issues

Peru Mining Breaks the Environmental Balance in Fishing Harbor

The mining project in Puerto Huarmey, located in the Ancash Region of Peru, has profoundly impacted the life of fishermen, indigenous, and peasants who still inhabit the region. Local residents have b...

Estudiantes de secundaria coimunitaria. Foto: Eva López Chávez

Oaxaca Indigenous Public Schools: Lessons Learned on Community Education

mall testimony of my participation in the implementation of Oaxaca’s Community High School model. With the emergence of the Zapatista uprising that sought the vindication of indigenous peoples during ...

Land Evictions Leave Thousands Homeless in Paraguay

Radio Fe y Alegría about the current situation in Paraguay of evictions and criminalization of peasant and indigenous communities.

Los peligros del incremento de la minería “verde” en América para la transición energética del norte

The dangers of more “green” mining in the Americas for the energy transition in the North

The myths of “green,” “sustainable” and “climate smart” mining are gaining traction across the world. Companies are marketing these mines as “green,” and present them as the solution to the climate cr...

Bolivia: The March for the Earth, the territory and for identity, returns home

After close to 100 days of resistance in Bolivia’s lowlands, indigenous representatives of the newly created PNIAOC decided to return home without the hoped dialogue with Luis Arce’s government

Ecuador: CONAIE Rejects Government’s Neoliberal Policies

beings and the planet. Through struggle and resistance processes with the people, we have been building a political project for the country.

Maria Luna midwife. Photo: Juan Carlos Guzmán Luna

Learning to Feel Babies Inside Us: Wisdom from Majosik, Chiapas

This beautiful article is part of the Tzam Trece Semillas Zapatistas project, a plural, multicultural space that proposes a dialogue (tzam means dialogue in Ayapaneco) between communities, ideas, proj...

National Day of Mourning Breaks with the Thanksgiving Myth: A Radio Report

The original National Day of Mourning began with Wamsutta Frank James who decided to speak out on the pain and trauma that the Thanksgiving myth spurred inside him. Fifty-two years later, his granddau...

Looking Forward from COP26: An Interview with Andrés Tapia from Lanceros Digitales and CONFENIAE

Interview with Andres Tapia, community communicator for Lanceros Digitales and CONFENIAE on the participation of indigenous peoples in the COP26 summit.