Marcos Roitman Rosenmann To the Mapuche people and political prisoners With the exception of the period of Popular Unity (1970-1973), the Chilean state has exercised violence, murder and lies against Wallmapu. The Mapuche people have resisted and continue to resist. Hatred and racism take on new forms and are recreated by governments of different colors….
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Plan Colombia and the Spiral of Massacres and Assassinations of Social Leaders
Marco TeruggiMobilization in Cali to demand justice for the murder of five young people in Llano Verde Photo: courtesy of Santiago Vázquez. Reports of massacres follow one after another in Colombia. According to the United Nations, this year alone there have been 40, to which another one was added on August 18, as the murders…
Modern U.S. Racial Capitalism: Some Theoretical Insights
Charisse Burden-Stelly, PhD Anti-Blackness and antiradicalism function as the legitimating architecture of modern U.S. racial capitalism. “The resolution to racial capitalism is antiracist socialism.” In recent years, “racial capitalism” has ascended across the humanities and social sciences. It has arisen as a conceptual framework to understand the mutually constitutive nature of racialization and capitalist exploitation, inter alia, on a…
The Indigenous American and the Pandemic Era
Nicholas Smaldone Part I From Alaska to Chile, North and South America have been some of the hardest hit regions of the COVID-19 pandemic. In late May, the World Health Organization (WHO) Emergencies Director Mike Ryan called South America “a new epicenter for the disease.” Now, three months later, little has changed. Of the top…
CELS Denounces Bolivia’s De facto Government to the UN for the Sacaba and Senkata Massacres
Guido Miguel Vassallo Nine months after the Sacaba and Senkata massacres, the Center for Legal and Social Studies (CELS) denounced Bolivia’s de facto government to the United Nations for alleged extrajudicial executions and other human rights violations. The abundant evidence collected reveals that, in both territories, the armed forces and police savagely repressed the protests…
Adriana Guzmán: We Will Never Be Your Domestics Again
An episode of the documentary “Historias debidas”, on the plurinacional news portal, recounts the journey of the plurinacional feminist delegation through Bolivia after the coup. This is a conversation with Adriana Guzmán about intransigence and resistance. Stories that must be told The media are de facto accomplices of the government, they functionalize the Catholic and…
More than 200 Entities Reinforce Motion Against Bolsonaro at Hague Tribunal
Brasil de Fato The Brazilian Association of Jurists for Democracy (ABJD) gained the support of 223 civil organizations, political parties and social movements in Brazil, in their motion against president Jair Bolsonaro at the International Criminal Court (ICC). Last Tuesday (11th), support from these entities was officially filed at the Tribunal, as an endorsement of…
The Winds of Change: COVID-19 Impact on Peasants, Rural Workers and Other Marginalized Groups
La Via Campesina Within the framework of our strategy of formation/training, information and political analysis in defense of Food Sovereignty and Peasant Agriculture, with the slogan “Sow the seeds of struggle and resistance, and cultivate our rights!”, we share a second report on the COVID-19 and the situation of the peasantry. It has been five…
Police Set Fire to MST Camp During Eviction
Lu Sudré Families of Quilombo Campo Grande camp denounce the negligence of the Minas Gerais state government – MST 450 landless families have been resisting the eviction for more than 30 hours in the state of Minas Gerais Military police set fire to the Quilombo Grande camp of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, located in…
Systemic Racism and Oppression: The Larger Historical Framework of White Supremacy in the U.S.
Russ Bellant Source: trumanlibrary.org The United States is experiencing an acute challenge to its system of racism both in terms of police behavior and in its separate and unequal public health systems. This represents what is an ogoing challenge to the larger framework of systemic racism that has existed in the U.S. in various stages…
Dispatch from PDX (Portland, Oregon); Black Lives Matter in a White Utopia
Kahlil M. Wall-Johnson The temporal-spatial convergence of the largest white city in amerikka, with the most persistent “BLM” protests and exceedingly white subcultures should not be dismissed as coincidence. “The matrix of violence that defines Black life cannot be understood through the lens of fascism.” Portlanders have risen up against the fascist police state. Armed…
Two Years of Duque’s Colombia: Deepening Neoliberalism, Increased Violence and a Public Health Crisis
Zoe PC Colombians had a brief moment of celebration following the Supreme Court of Justice’s announcement that they were ordering the detention of Álvaro Uribe Vélez. Photo: Colombia Informa Colombian social leader Milena Ochoa analyses the past two years of Iván Duque’s government and explains how its functioning has been completely in favor of big…
