Indigenous struggle
“If we don't stand firm, these companies will sweep us away”- A new chapter in Ecuador’s anti-mining struggle “If we don’t stand firm, these companies will sweep us away”: a new chapter in Ecuador’s anti-mining struggle

In June, the police harshly repressed demonstrators opposing the third-largest mining project in the country. Several social movements have denounced links between the mining company and the president’s family.

Farewell Sebastião Salgado: Photographer and friend of the MST

With his revered camera, the professional took a stand for the dignity and humanity of workers worldwide

Fossil fuel giant launches legal attack over Standing Rock protests

The 300 million dollar lawsuit over anti-pipeline protests could chill environmental activism and Indigenous struggle

After 49 years in prison, Leonard Peltier is finally free

The Indigenous freedom fighter and longest-held political prisoner was released on Tuesday following a decades-long struggle for his release

What is the peasantry discussing today at the global level?

As Colombia is carrying out a historic agrarian reform, COP16 is spotlighting key issues for peasants worldwide

Cry of the Excluded marks 30 years defending “true independence” in Brazil

A mass mobilization will be held on September 7, the date on which Brazilian independence is celebrated, under the motto “All life is worthy of care. But who cares?”

Caravan for Life reflects on stakes of humanitarian crisis in Colombia

One of the five tours of the Humanitarian Caravan for Life in Colombia recently came to a close in the department of Chocó

“We’ve always been here!”: Indigenous peoples release final declaration of Terra Livre Camp 2024

Message marks the last day of the event that brought together around 9,000 people from more than 200 nations in Brasília

Brazilian activists slam Bolsonaro’s genocidal climate policy

With both the UN General Assembly and Climate Week taking place in NYC, activists protest deforestation and murders of Indigenous people

During Bolsonaro’s third year in office, 176 Indigenous people were murdered in Brazil

According to the CIMI report, the states of Amazonas, Mato Grosso do Sul and Roraima accounted for 105 deaths

Why lithium power politics are playing out very differently in Chile and Bolivia

The people of Bolivia and Chile imagine a different kind of extraction: one that is controlled by those who live by the resources and one that does not destroy the earth.

Violence is on the rise in Brazil

Violence reigns against poor and working class people in Brazil, and plays a critical role in suppressing popular movements