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December 2024 Issue: Quarterly Eco-Zine

About the zine The Quarterly Eco-Zine is an e-zine overviewing our latest news, publications, webinars, delegations and eyewitness accounts of ecological struggles, ecosocialist movements and eco-solidarity in the Americas. In an era of climate crisis and environmental injustice, we strive to inspire hope and change. December 2024 Issue: Human rights reports on environmental justice in…

Interview with Haitian-Venezuelan lawyer and human rights defender Saint Louis XVI

Saint Louis XVI is the Human Rights Coordinator of the Haitian-Venezuelan organization National Front of Sister Nations and lawyer specializing in international human rights law and geopolitics. He discusses the root causes of Haiti’s instability today and its sustained resistance, from its overthrow of French imperial rule to its struggles against imperialist aggression and interventionism,…

Eco-Solidarity Update Episode 3: Too Hot to Handle—War, Militarism, and Eco-Destruction

View Part One of Too Hot to Handle–War, Militarism and Eco-Destruction, a brief update on the latest news from eco-solidarity struggles View Part Two, an especially informative round table with representatives from Alianza Mujeres Viequenses, Veterans for Peace, the Nuclear Resister, and AFGJ This month’s Eco Solidarity Update is on the theme of how war…

Our environment: enough for everyone’s need…but not everyone’s greed

“All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. Yet, when it comes to the effects of climate change, there has been nothing but chronic injustice and the corrosion of human rights.” (Mary Robinson) By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) The most fundamental human right is the right to live. This includes the…

Border Militarization and Empire: An Interview with Todd Miller

By Will Sarvis, 2018 Border Studies Intern Tucson-based journalist Todd Miller’s forthcoming book Empire of Borders  will address border imperialism and the expansion of border apparatuses around the world. He has written for the New York Times, TomDispatch, The Nation, Guernica, Al Jazeera English, and NACLA Report on the Americas. This interview will be featured…

Over 7,000 bodies have been found at the U.S.-Mexican border since the ’90s

And that’s an underestimate By Todd Miller (independent journalist) Republished from The Nation At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I…

The United States is polluting the world and locking refugees out

Border walls are being erected left and right as natural disasters become more frequent, leaving victims with nowhere to go By Todd Miller (independent journalist) Republished from The Nation When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they…

People’s Human Rights Observatory Declaration of Support for Peace in Colombia

Peace in Colombia is threatened by the highest number of politically motivated murders in seven years, with more than one victim every three days. And while the FARC-EP has met every agreement, including complete disarmament, the government is dragging its feet and failing to meet its obligations in several key areas. Following is a declaration…

Message from Hubert Ballesteros, Colombian unionist and political prisoner, to North American labor and solidarity activists

Originally published in Fight Back! News Versión en español The following message is a response to a series of questions posed to Hubert Ballesteros by James Jordan of the Alliance for Global Justice. Ballesteros was arrested while negotiating for the National Agrarian Strike of 2013 and charged with Rebellion. He was also serving on the…

Nothing to do, nowhere to go, nothing to say: How the broad climate movement has failed us

 Graffiti from Havana, Cuba By James Jordan (Originally published in Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal) January 13, 2016 – It has been a month since the UN climate summit in Paris, aka COP 21. One might expect the kind of ebb and flow we often see in popular movements. Interest in climate issues, the…