Unreading Colonial Food Systems

Maya Burke Like many people who went through U.S. public school systems, I am intimately familiar with institutional food; canned vegetables, square cut pizza, frozen & highly processed mystery meats, syrupy fruit cups, all of that. Institutional food is low-cost, low in nutritional value, and arguably pretty gross. I remember asking our school superintendent why…

Chile Constituent: We Will Not Abandon the Streets

Carlos Aznárez and María Torrellas In the context of the latest elections to the constituent convention to create a new Constitution in Chile, we spoke with Nuriluz Hermosilla Osorio, archaeologist and one of the three spokespersons of the Coordinadora Feminista 8M, participant of the Comité Socioambiental and the Comité de Derechos Humanos y Memoria Feminista…

Jimmy Moreno, Spokesperson for the Peoples Congress: “Genocide is Being Committed in Colombia”

Carlos Aznarez The great popular uprising that has been taking place in Colombia against the pro-Uribe regime presided over by Iván Duque is showing the world that when the peoples lose patience with the iniquities of capitalist policies, nothing can stop them. Not even the bullets of the Esmad and one of the most powerful…

Torch of Farmers Agitation in Delhi Border Continues to Shimmer Like a Prairie Fire

Harsh Thakor Gadri Gulab Kaur Nagar stage was launched at Delhi’s Tikri Border by the women wing of Bharatiya Kisan Union Ekta (Ugrahan) on May3rd The tempo  of farmers movement continues at Tikri border  at similar pitch as before  with intensity of Coal in a blast furnace. A series of programmes have been launched by…

Letter to World Leaders on the Occasion of the Leaders’ Summit on Climate

International People’s Assembly It is common knowledge that we are at a decisive moment for human survival and for the biodiversity of our planet. There is a serious environmental and public health crisis, caused by crimes committed continuously by the greed for profit. The research and scientific data are more and more evident, which you…

Brazil: 25 Years after the Eldorado do Carajás Massacre, Violence in the Countryside Soars

Catarina Barbosa The state of Pará, where the massacre took place, leads the country when it comes to the number of land conflicts – Amnesty International In 1996, 21 peasants were killed by Military Police; under Bolsonaro, land conflicts are at their highest in 10 years The slaughter that took the lives of 21 peasants…

Investments in Agrarian Reform and Family Farming are Alternatives to the Crisis in Brazil

Solange Engelmann and Iris Pacheco In the midst of one of the biggest economic, political and health crises, rural workers are reinventing themselves to stay in the countryside and present a viability for a project that contributes to the country’s food sovereignty. This is not a process that started now, on the contrary, it is…

Violence and Bloodshed Continue in Colombia

Peoples Dispatch “Sorry to bother you, but they are killing us.” Photo: Alejo Calderon/Twitter According to the Institute of Development and Peace Studies (INDEPAZ), so far in 2021, 31 social leaders and 10 ex-combatants of the FARC have been assassinated in Colombia. Additionally, the organization also reports that over 60 people have been killed in…

24 Years After the Peace Accords in Guatemala, and 4 Years After the Peace Accords in Colombia

Ollantay Itzamná Mayan woman. Guatemala. In 1996, after 36 years of internal war, the Guatemalan guerrillas united in the Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG) signed what became known as the Peace Accords with the Guatemalan State/Army with lofty promises of peace and development for the country. In 2016, after more than half a century of…

89th Massacre of 2020 Dampens Christmas Celebrations in Colombia

On the 23rd of December, 3 people were killed in Neiva, Colombia, making it the 89th massacre the country has seen this year. The massacre occurred in Chapinero, a rural area mostly known for agricultural activities. Among the 3 men killed was Mesías Pajoy Sabogal, an ex-combatant of the FARC guerrilla. Sabogal was a part…

The Venezuelan Conuquera Seed Signifies a Struggle for Identity and Resistance

Eder Peña The conuco as a system and concept brings with it the care and multiplication of seeds of traditional and new items. Life, culture, knowledge, health, traditional agricultural systems and even the questions of the people and communities are based on native and Creole seeds, which are their common heritage. Their free circulation is…

The National Guard and the MST in the State of Bahia: Understand What’s Happening

Cristiane Sampaio The operation was initially authorized to take place for 30 days, from September 3rd to October 2nd – MST/Divulgação The conflict began September 2nd, after a court order from the Justice Ministry; the cases relates to land reform Related to a dispute between the Rural Landless Workers Movement (MST) and agricultural elites, the…