The campesino assemblies of Segunda y Cajas (Huancabamba) and Yanta (Ayabaca) in Peru rejected the strategies of the mining company Rio Blanco Copper implemented to obtain the license for their project at any cost, despite it being denied several times by the communities. “In our role as guardians of our plains and cloud forest ecosystems,…
Category: ENVIRONMENT
Mexico: People’s Front in Defense of the Earth Demand AMLO Address Land Rights, Cancel the NAICM
THE ORGANIZATIONAL PLATFORM AGAINST THE NEW AIRPORT AND THE AEROTRÓPOLIS We ask President Elect AMLO to cancel the NAICM! The election result of July 1 indicates a rejection of authoritarianism! Either the new government is allied with and defends the interests of society or we will oppose it! The announcement made by President Enrique Peña…
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court Rules Against Chevron, in Favor of Indigenous Communities
Ecuador’s Constitutional Court rejected Chevron’s request to revise a national court ruling that sentenced it to pay US$9.5 billion in environmental and social reparations to the communities affected during its operations in the Ecuadorean Amazon, between 1964 and 1992. “Historic day. After over 25 years, the Constitutional Court ruled in favor of those affected by…
United Nations: Chancellor Highlights Bolivia’s Advances in Defense of Mother Earth and Indigenous Peoples
Cancillería Bolivia Translated by Internationalist 360° Within the framework of the XVII Forum on Indigenous Issues, under the theme “Indigenous peoples, collective rights to land, territories and resources“, the Chancellor of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Fernando Huanacuni Mamani, highlighted the important advances of the Plurinational State, which has consolidated the struggle for the recovery…
President Evo Morales: We Must Defend Mother Earth, Fight Imperialism and Policies of Genocide
Cancillería Bolivia Translated by Internationalist 360° The President of the Plurinational State of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma, participated in the XVII Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues at the United Nations in New York. In his speech he highlighted the urgent need to fight against policies genocide. “If we want to guarantee the rights of Mother…
“We Demand that Peasants Rights are Guaranteed. Enough of FTAs, Enough Impunity for Corporations!”
LA VIA CAMPESINA (Harare, April 17th 2018) After two decades of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs), being advanced in an attempt to recolonize and 22 years after the de Eldorado dos Carajás massacre in Brazil, La Via Campesina denounces the impunity with which these actions are carried out. The global peasant movement issues a call to…
