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• Blue Gold: World Water Wars

  

  February 16, 2008  3,721 views 0 Comments Share

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  This is the trailer for the film Blue Gold: World Water Wars, a documentary that explores the current and emerging world water crisis from an ecological, social, and political standpoint. Through examining Court cases, U.N. conventions, local protests, and numerous situations where people are struggling for their basic right to water, Blue Gold reveals the [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • business

• Nuevo Horizonte

  

  February 2, 2008  3,864 views 1 comment Share

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  When the earth belongs to the people, they are able to achieve their dreams. Thirty-six years of civil war in Guatemala resulted in the deaths of more than 200,000 people---most of them Indigenous. In the wake of an amnesty signed in 1996, those who took part in the armed struggle against Guatemala's dictatorship were finally [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • Guatemala • Indigenous Peoples • land • sustainable • unity • video

• Peasants Successfully Block Pesticide Use

  

  January 13, 2008  2,044 views 0 Comments Share

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  On Jan. 7, about 100 campesinos successfully blocked the spraying of pesticides on soy fields in the Ybypé community of the department of San Pedro, Paraguay. Riot police were mobilized to protect the fumigation tractors, but in a rare and inspiring turn, the campesinos convinced the officers of their right to resist the spraying. The [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • GMO • Indigenous Peoples • land • Paraguay • pesticides • Soya • Successes • sustainable • unity

• Building an Indigenous Communications Agenda

  

  October 30, 2007  1,596 views 0 Comments Share

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  Under the theme "Building an Indigenous Communications Agenda," the 2nd Seminar for Indigenous Communicators began in Mexico yesterday, bringing together 60 communicators from Brazil, Canada, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Guatemala, Honduras, Panama, Peru, Mexico, Russia and Nicaragua. The seminar aims to discuss indigenous communicators issues and technology (community radio, film and video, the Internet); government policies [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • communications • events • Indigenous Peoples

• Columbia: Peoples’ Permanent Tribunal holds hearing on Oil Companies

  

  August 10, 2007  2,125 views 0 Comments Share

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  The Peoples’ Permanent Tribunal (PPT), an independent non-governmental body that examines and judges complaints regarding violations of human rights as submitted by the victims themselves (or their representatives)---recently held a hearing against the Oil Industry in Colombia. On August 3rd and 4th, the Panel of 130 Judges gathered in Bogota, receiving testimony from nearly 400 [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • business • Colombia • Energy • genocide • hearings and tribunals • Indigenous Peoples • justice • oil • reports

• Our Need to move forward

  

  June 24, 2007  1,696 views 1 comment Share

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  After reading the post "ways to begin gutting capitalism" Red Jenny recently brought up an important point on her blog, saying, "the first thing that I thought was yeah, but who has TIME for this. Neighbourhood associations, local currencies, growing my own food, it all sounds great, but geez, there's practically no time to eat [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • business • unity

• Development-induced Displacement

  

  June 10, 2007  2,841 views 0 Comments Share

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  The following is the concluding section of a paper titled "Development-induced Displacement,' from the Center for Education and Documentation (CED) website. I think it is particularly useful in reference to my recent post about the Olympics. Conclusion Right to development as a human right was declared in 1986,123 however, was acknowledged in the Second UN [...]

  Filed Under Alternatives • business • displacement • Olympics