Global Crises & Global Movements

Responding to global food, fuel and financial crises, social movements are forming new ways of building social power and creating effective, community-based alternatives. For an introduction to this issue, download our Food First Issue Primer on Global Crises & Global Movements

Why US-Cuba Relations Won’t End Cuba’s Alternative Agriculture Movement

Blog | Justine Williams | Apr 5, 2016

Barack Obama’s recent trip to Cuba—coming15 months after his and Raúl Castro’s announcement that the two countries would begin a…

Gustavo Castro: Why Do the Killers of Berta Cáceres Want Him Imprisoned or Dead?

Blog | Beverly Bell | Mar 31, 2016

March 31, 2016 International pressure is rising for the immediate and safe return to Mexico of Gustavo Castro Soto, activist,…

FAMILIAS UNIDAS POR LA JUSTICIA ¡Exigimos condiciones de trabajo justas!

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 30, 2016

Familias Unidas por la Justicia, FUJ, realiza una gira de un mes por California para informar sobre su lucha y…

United Families for Justice. We demand fair work conditions!

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 30, 2016

United Families for Justice (Familias Unidas para la Justicia, FUJ), organized solidarity committees with union representatives  and a monthly brigade…

LA TIERRA ES NUESTRA VIDA

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 29, 2016

Mi identidad revolucionaria  Tenía cinco años cuando triunfó la Revolución Cubana. Sabíamos de la guerrilla y nos maravillamos cuando supimos…

THE LAND IS OUR LIFE

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 29, 2016

My revolutionary identity  I was only five years old when the Cuban Revolution triumphed.  We were aware of the national…

“The Honduran Government Wants to Incriminate Us”

Blog | Ana Galvis | Mar 28, 2016

The Criminalization of COPINH and Misdirection Plague Investigation into Lenca Leader’s Assassination March 25, 2015 By Witness for Peace Family…

LOS ASESINOS SON LOS MISMOS, LAS RAZONES TAMBIÉN

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 22, 2016

El 3 de marzo fue asesinada Berta Cáceres, activa defensora del territorio Lenca y directiva del Consejo Cívico de Organizaciones…

MURDER IN CENTRAL AMERICA: SAME ASSASSINS, SAME MOTIVES

Blog | Leonor Hurtado | Mar 22, 2016

Berta Cáceres, a Lenca indigenous leader and coordinator of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH)…

Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation into Berta Cáceres’ Assassination

Blog | Beverly Bell | Mar 21, 2016

March 21, 2016 The sole eyewitness to Honduran social movement leader Berta Cáceres’ assassination on March 3, 2016 has gone…

Desmantelando el Racismo del Sistema Alimentario

Blog | Ana Galvis | Mar 18, 2016

Número 1, Invierno-Primavera 2016   Serie especial acerca del racismo y la liberación en el sistema alimentario. Racismo en los Sistemas…

Seed laws, certification and standardization

Blog | Tamara Wattnem | Mar 17, 2016

Seed laws, certification and standardization: outlawing informal seed systems in the Global South A series of relatively new seed laws…