Ann Garrison Housing is a national crisis due to speculative investment and gentrification. I spoke to Noni Sessions, executive director of the Oakland-based East Bay Permanent Real Estate Cooperative (EBPREC), about solutions. This is the cooperative’s mission statement: “EBPREC is: A movement based, investor crowd-funded, multi-land holding entity through which Black, Indigenous, People of Color,…
Category: SOCIAL JUSTICE
People’s Health Assembly: The Struggle for Health and Social Justice
Subin Dennis The struggle to ensure health for all is synonymous with the struggle for a new society Most people do not think about violent conflicts, wars and military occupation when they talk about health and healthcare. But the fact of the matter is that these factors do have profound effects on the health of…
Honduras: Hunger Declares War on the Imperial Necropolitical State
Juan Almendarez Purpose The purpose of this essay is to point out two aspects of reality that are related to migration. The first one refers to peasant, indigenous and Garífuna communities that are attached to the territories and that aspire to defend their social and political spaces against capitalist accumulation by dispossession. On the other…
Bolsonaro’s Approach to MST and Agrarian Reform Involves Explicit Violence, Repression
Zoe PC The MST’s Débora Nunes talks about the campaign against Bolsonaro, the threats of a potential fascist presidency and the role of international solidarity Today, millions of people in Brazil will go to the polls to choose their next president. Before them lies a stark choice: the candidate of fascism, supported by the most…
In Brasil’s Semiotic War, Truth Was The First Casualty
Bruno De Oliveira Fake news and its propagation via social media has created a suspension of critical thinking. We have people simply believing everything and nothing; accepting the absurd whilst disregarding factual information as fake news. In Brazil, this wave of fake news is creating a state of collective paranoia where ordinary people cannot distinguish…
Abahlali baseMjondolo Continues its Struggle: Interview with Mqapheli George Bonono
Zoe PC On Monday, thousands of members of the organization Abahlali baseMjondolo, the shack dwellers movement, along with their allies from the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa and other movements, marched in Durban against state repression and attacks that they have suffered as a movement. Peoples Dispatch had the opportunity to speak with…
Colombian Social Organizations Send an Open Letter to Iván Duque
Colombia Informa Various social organizations gathered in the Popular Assembly wrote a letter to the government of Iván Duque. They demand measures to protect social leaders, to stop criminalization of social justice movements and to allocate more resources towards education. More than 1300 leaders of social organizations gathered in Bogotá expressed their concern about the…
Internationalist Seminar Concluded in Bogotá
Colombia Informa Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle”, concludes: “Construction of Popular Power, in the dispute for the hegemony that allows us the emancipation of all forms of domination and the construction of a just society, in unity, in harmony with mother Earth”. From October 6-11, the Internationalist Seminar “Uniting Peoples in Struggle” was held…
Colombian Social Movements Converge in Bogotá to Build Common Struggles
Peoples Dispatch Photo: Colombia Informa The Popular and People’s Legislative Assembly began Tuesday in Colombia’s capital for the construction of a common struggle On October 9, 2018, more than 1,500 people gathered at the Claretiano School in Bosa, in the south of Bogota, Colombia, to begin the Popular and People’s Legislative Assembly. This assembly is…
Che Guevera’s Socialism vs Revolutionary Dogma
Valerie Carmel Che’s most important lesson for today’s popular movements is rebelling against fatalism. Ernesto Guevara, the Argentine middle-class doctor turned revolutionary, better known for his role in the victorious Cuban Revolution, was executed by the Bolivian army and the United States Central Intelligence Agency 51 years ago on Oct. 9, 1967. On this anniversary,…
“A Lot Remains to Be Done”: Interview with Aleida Guevara
Ron Augustin Aleida Guevara March, the daughter of Ernesto Che Guevara and Aleida March, recently traveled to Europe, where she participated in several discussion rounds explaining the popular consultations taking place in Cuba for the country’s proposed constitutional reforms. She also campaigned against the U.S.-sanctions against her country. Before returning to her work as a…
Managua Declaration: “Workers and Peasants of the Land and Water for Climate Justice”
LA VIA CAMPESINA La Via Campesina, in representation of millions of peasant families, farm workers, indigenous peoples, fisherfolk, allies from social movements and academics, have met in Managua, Nicaragua, Central America from 24-27 August 2018, to deepen a strategy for environmental and climate justice. We salute the hospitality of the peasant organizations of Nicaragua and…
