18 articles

• "Covid-19 Mutual Aid. Initiatives of Indigenous Peoples" Map

  6 July 2020, by Aurélie Journée-Duez, CSIA-Nitassinan

  This collaborative evolutionary mapping project seeks to identify initiatives of direct solidarity with indigenous peoples. Led by indigenous groups, organizations and institutions, these initiatives aim to fill the gaps in the management of national states in this crisis that particularly affects indigenous peoples.

• They continue to kill our children!

  3 July 2020, by Autres Brésils, Debora Maria da Silva

  In this text, Débora Maria da Silva - founding member of the Movimento Independente Mães de Maio - looks back on the 14th anniversary of the May Crimes in Brazil, the police violence, the denial of democracy to the black population and the murderous management of the health crisis triggered by the arrival of Covid-19 in Brazil.

• Amid Calls for a General Strike, Labor Will Shut Down 29 Ports on Juneteenth

  27 June 2020, by Cooperation Jackson, Frances Madeson

  Article from Frances Madeson about the the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s (ILWU) historic Juneteenth. call to action to the Labor movement to act in defense of Black Lives. The article features Cooperation Jackson’s executive director, Kali Akuno, speaking on behalf of the organization and the People’s Strike coalition.

• Something is happening in Colombia

  21 January 2020, by CETRI, Forrest Hylton

  Colombia is going through a cycle of protests, led mainly by urban youth. Although it is too early to pronounce on the changes and continuities, with an almost non-existent left and an ultra-right against the ropes, this wave could end up strengthening new figures of the progressive center.

• Algeria: Hirak, a long-lasting movement

  21 January 2020, by Plateforme altermondialiste, Saïd Djaafer

  A few weeks before 22 February, when the regime has plugged the "hole" in the presidency, writings are already decreeing the "failure" of the Hirak, which is accused of having been too "radical" or not radical enough, of having refused to "negotiate", of not having "structured" itself, of not having "representatives". Others point to the lack of "ideological purity" of a movement that includes a fairly wide range of the country’s ideological and political currents.

  Those in a hurry to decree the failure of Hirak are often the ones looking for the "invisible" hands pulling the strings. But by dint of being shaped by a perverse system, one ends up not seeing what is visible: a society that has set itself in motion to reappropriate a state that has been privatized for too long to the benefit of small groups and to the detriment of the majority. This movement is invaluable and it will not stop.