Source: guardian.co.uk UN food price index rises for sixth month in a row to highest since records began in 1990 Author: Jill Treanor Soaring prices of sugar, grain and oilseed drove world food prices to a record in December, surpassing the levels of 2008 when the cost of food sparked riots around the world, and […]
Fuente: Cultural Survival Durante más de 1,000 años el pueblo wixárika ha llevado a cabo peregrinaciones desde sus centros ceremoniales en la Sierra Madre Occidental hasta llegar al Desierto de Chihuahua y Leunar, el Cerro Quemado, donde amaneció por primera vez el sol. Los peregrinos wixaritari (plural para wixárika) caminan más de 480 kilómetros para […]
Source: Cultural Survival Related video below For more than 1,000 years, the Wixárika (we-SHA-re-ka) people have made pilgrimages from their ceremonial centers in the Sierra Madre Mountains across the Chihuahua desert to Leunar, the sacred mountain where the sun first rose. The Wixárika (also known as Huichol) pilgrims traverse over 300 miles to reach Leunar, […]
Free access to the Journal of Peasant Studies, Volume 37 Issue 4 2010 Authors: Saturnino M. Borras Jr. – This collection comes out of the workshop on the same theme held in October 2009 in Halifax, Canada, sponsored by the Journal of Peasant Studies and Initiatives in Critical Agrarian Studies (ICAS). We thank all the […]
Source: The Real News Network 30,000 natives fight for compensation against Texaco (now Chevron), accused of 3 decades of toxic dumping in Amazon
Fuente: Alterinfos America Latina Por Ollantay Itzamná “Cancún concluyó con un acuerdo más ambicioso de lo previsto”, “EEUU y China se suman en la reducción de GEI”. Con éstos y otros titulares de prensa se fueron a celebrar las fiestas de fin de año las y los participantes en la 16ª Conferencia de Partes sombre […]
Source: Latinamerica Press By Cecilia Remon Industrialized countries refuse to stop polluting and put a price on protecting forests Industrialized countries and their companies do little to nothing to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, which are in turn triggering climate change. Instead, they have created a complex mechanism that allows them to pay to preserve […]
Source: Latinamerica Press social movements propose agenda at international conference on climate change Social movements from around the world, with large representation from Latin America, arrived in Cancun, Mexico, for the 16th Conference of the Parties of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP), which took place from Nov. 29 to Dec. 10. They came to […]