If this announcement, like previous ones, is merely a way of marking rhetorical distance from the U.S. government without charting a completely different and sovereign national security policy, we´ll be where we started–with uncontrolled violence in many parts of the country.
his phase of resistance began with a shout of protest against a new policy that would levy taxes on basic products and services, raising the cost of living in a country where unemployment, poverty and inequality are at unprecedented levels. It has now become a struggle between extermination and emancipation.
Colombia ha cumplido más de un mes en paro nacional, con una movilización popular histórica para este país y para América Latina. Las protestas contra el gobierno no paran. Esta fase de resistencia empezó como un grito contra una reforma tributaria que proponía cobrar impuestos a los productos y servicios básicos, elevando el costo de la vida en un país en donde el desempleo, la pobreza y la desigualdad han llegado a niveles sin precedentes. Ahora se ha convertido en una lucha entre la exterminación y la emancipación.
This Earth Day, four women defenders from four countries came together to reflect on their struggles defending the body-territory. They emphasized that the relationship of women’s bodies with the earth, its natural resources, and the mutual care that this implies, is reflected in the types of threats and forms of violence against women’s bodies and against the earth that emanate from the same capitalist-patriarchal system that seeks total domination of both territories.
“Defender el territorio-tierra sin defender el territorio-cuerpo es una tremenda contradicción, porque así como el extractivismo mata, el machismo también.”
El feminicidio es un crimen anunciado, advierte la abogada Karla Micheel Salas. Anunciado, con frecuencia, por la misma víctima, en denuncias y llamados desesperados de auxilio que son obviados por las autoridades y la sociedad. Anunciado, por las condiciones de discriminación, amenaza y vulnerabilidad en que viven tantas mujeres. Anunciados, por las cifras de feminicidios que aumentan a diario. Anunciados, por el sistema capitalista-patriarcal en que vivimos todas, un sistema que desvalora la vida de la mujer, sobre todo si es migrante, extranjera, pobre, morena, con discapacidad.
Femicide is a crime foretold, warns lawyer Karla Micheel Salas. Announced, frequently by the victim herself, in denunciations and desperate cries for help that are ignored by the authorities and society. Announced by the conditions of discrimination, threat and vulnerability in which so many women live. Announced, by the numbers of femicides that increase daily. Announced, because of the capitalist-patriarchal system in which we all live, a system that devalues the life of women, especially if they are poor brown migrants with disabilities.
At the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH), the organization that Berta Cáceres founded, they have a saying “Berta did […]
The scene is tragic and horrifying. Two burnt out vehicles containing 19 bodies, one of them riddled by 113 bullets, along the hellish slice of borderland in Tamaulipas, near the Nuevo León and Texas.
If any country on earth should be breathing a huge sigh of relief about now, it’s Mexico. Four years of bashing, bullying, trade threats and white supremacist machinations now ends with the ignominious exit of Donald J. Trump.
