By Staff, MercoPress. The most recent Brazilian census finds that 52.3 percent of the population is non-white; half of the population earns less than the minimum wage and, on average, Brazilians who are white and Asian earn twice as much as those who are black or mixed-race.
Continue reading →By Humberto Márquez, IPS. The Venezuelan government has expropriated 25 ranches to distribute 15,800 hectares (39,042 acres) to communities of Yukpa Indians in the northwest of the country who have been protesting to be returned the lands from which they had been driven. (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Fidel Castro Ruz, CubaDebate via Granma. Those countries are attempting to monopolize technologies and markets by means of patents, banks, the most modern and costly forms of transportation, cybernetic domination of complex productive processes, and the control of communications and the mass media, in order to deceive the world.
Continue reading →By Franz Chávez, IPS. LA PAZ – With victory cheers and predictions of future campaigns in defense of their ancestral territory, indigenous protesters from Bolivia’s Amazon jungle region celebrated the new law that banned the construction of the road through their rainforest reserve.
Continue reading →By Kristian Beadle, Miller-McCune. Kristian Beadle steps off a rickety bus in southern Mexico and finds a traditional coffee-growing culture that admirably suits modern sustainability efforts.
Continue reading →By Jacobo G. García, El Mundo – Spain | Translated by Camden Luxford, Watching America | Commentary by Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. Now that money for legitimate science has dried up in the U.S., there are probably many more John Cutler(s). (English | Spanish)
Continue reading →By Jason Palmer, BBC. “Amondawa people, like any other people, can talk about events and sequences of events…. What we don’t find is a notion of time as being independent of the events which are occuring.” Dr. Chris Sinha.
Continue reading →By Tim Johnson, McClatchy. Mexico’s native varieties of corn are under peril from economics and genetic contamination, potentially depriving humans of a crucial resource.
Continue reading →Interview of Jean-Bertrand Aristide With Nicolas Rossier, Z Magazine. “The Haitian people who are moving from misery to poverty with dignity should continue to move straight towards that goal. If we lose our dignity we lose everything.” J.-B. Aristide
Continue reading →By Jay Walljasper, On the Commons. The developing world doesn’t simply do less of what’s wrong, it has pioneered new approaches to protect the environment that are rooted in a sense of the commons.
Continue reading →By Saikat, About My Planet. Brazil has begun to levy fines on companies that do not compensate the country for exploiting its genetic materials and traditional knowledge.
Continue reading →By Dady Chery, Haiti Chery. The United Nations and 42 non-governmental organizations (NGO) are asking to be paid about $600 for every Haitian to be contaminated with cholera. There is money in cholera.
Continue reading →Interview of President Aristide with Nicolas Rossier. “When we say democracy we have to mean what we say.” Jean-Bertrand Aristide, during his forced exile in South Africa.
Continue reading →By Eduardo Galeano, Rebelion | Yes! Magazine. “Human rights and the rights of Nature are two names of the same dignity.” – Eduardo Galeano. (English | Spanish)
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