Here are some of Latin America’s most important Indigenous women in 2016.
Category: WOMEN’S RIGHTS
Water Song: Indigenous Women and Water
Volume 7 | Issue 6 | Page 64-73 By Kate Cave, Shianne McKay Katherine Morrisseau-Sinclair, an Indigenous woman who, inspired by Grandmother Josephine Mandamin, started the Lake Winnipeg Water Walk. In Brief Water is life and needs to be respected. For the Indigenous people in Canada, there is a reciprocal and unique relationship with water….
CNI-EZLN Message to the Racist, Patriarchal Left
CNI, EZLN and the Power from Below It’s Not the Decision of One Person November 2016 For the [l@s] racists: Well, we’ve been reading and listening to everything you’ve been saying and writing. We’ve seen all of your mockery, your scorn, the racism that you can no longer hide. I believe that the compañeros and…
Corporate Conquistadors Rape Indigenous Lands and Bodies
Canada’s National Inquiry into Murdered and Disappeared Indigenous Women ought to investigate the role of the extractive industry. By Dr. Pamela Palmater Recently, KWG Resources Incorporated, a Canadian mining company, posted a video online using women dressed in bikinis to promote the mining of chromite on Indigenous lands in northern Ontario, known as the Ring…
Once Again, Peru Denies its Systematic Forced Sterilizations
By Jion Yi On June 28, Peruvian Public Prosecutor, Marcelita Gutiérrez, announced that the former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori and his three health ministers were not responsible for the past state policies of mass forced sterilizations.[1] A Brief History of the Mass Sterilizations in Peru Forced sterilizations in Peru started as a means to reduce…
Social Reproduction: Between the Wage and the Commons
Silvia Federici, Marina Sitrin Silvia Federici is a writer, activist and one of the most influential feminist theorists of her generation. Her contributions to the practice-based theory of reproductive labor and the commons are increasingly gaining the recognition they deserve within the academic and activist community, and will hopefully help lay the foundations of future…
Colombia: Black Women, Territory and Peace-building
FARC-EP On April 5 and 6, a special academic and intellectual symposium was held at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. It was entitled “Black Women, Territory and Peach-Building in the Twenty-First Century” and special emphasis was put on the role of black women in the Colombian peace process and the eventual post-agreement phase. Afro-Colombian activists…
Why Berta Cáceres Was Assassinated
A few numbers begin to reveal why Honduran indigenous leader and global movement luminary, Berta Cáceres, was assassinated on March 3, 2016. By Beverly Bell According to the Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), more than 300 hydroelectric dams are planned for Honduras, of which 49 are on COPINH lands. Eight hundred…
Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti
From an interview by Beverly Bell Involved in all levels of food production, Haitian women need control over land and protection from today’s wave of expropriation. Photo: Salena Tramel, for Grassroots International. In Haiti, the majority of the people working the land are women. Not only are they there during planting, weeding and harvesting, but…
Venezuela : The Meeting of a Feminist and Communal School
On October 2-4th 2015, feminist movements and collectives from across Venezuela came together for the third National School of People’s Feminism. In the summary that follows, the People’s Feminist School details the workshops that were discussed, as well as their strategy for advancing feminist practices within the Bolivarian revolution, particularly in terms of the creation…
Defeating Patriarchy in Bolivia
For much of Bolivian history, women have been marginalized and excluded from society and from formal political power. However, despite centuries of deeply imbedded patriarchal practices, women from rural, mining worker communities and feminist cooperatives have led important political mobilizations, including hunger strikes, street protests and barricade movements in defense of land, labor and gender…
From Afghanistan to Syria: Women’s Rights, War Propaganda and the CIA
By Julie Lévesque RT Op-Edge Afghan women. Women’s rights are increasingly heralded as a useful propaganda device to further imperial designs. Western heads of state, UN officials and military spokespersons will invariably praise the humanitarian dimension of the October 2001 US-NATO led invasion of Afghanistan, which allegedly was to fight religious fundamentalists, help little girls…
