2025 Mid Year Highlighted E-newsletters & Articles
Below, we share highlighted posts from early 2025. Rights Action shares these posts with a fundamental understanding of the inter-connectedness - local to the national to the global, past centuries through to today and tomorrow - of all important work and struggle for human equality and well-being on this one plant that we share with all life forms.
The Great Tablecloth
Let us sit down soon to eat with all those who haven't eaten. Let us spread great tablecloths, put salt in the lakes of the worlds, set up planetary bakeries, tables with strawberries in snow and a plate like the moon itself, from which we will all eat. For now, I ask no more than the justice of eating.
(Pablo Neruda)
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January 24, 2025
Without the Western media, this genocide would never have been possible
Journalist Owen Jones denounces Western media for suppressing coverage of Israel's genocide of Palestinian people
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/without-the-western-media-this-genocide-would-never-have-been-possible
February 12, 2025
Refugees and forced migrants are the harvest of our empire
Two Covert Action articles by James Phillips
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/refugees-forced-migrants-are-the-harvest-of-our-empire
March 3, 2025
Remembering Berta Caceres, 9 years after her assassination
by Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/remembering-berta-caceres-9-years-after-assassination
March 10, 2025
Trumpists Agitating To Coup Honduras
By Nate Bear
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/never-ending-us-government-corporate-interventions-in-the-americas
March 25, 2025
Round up in Louisiana of children of victims of World Bank and IDB’s Chixoy dam massacres
By Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/children-of-victim-survivors-of-chixoy-dam-massacres-rounded-up-in-louisiana
March 27, 2025
North American tourism in Honduras: “A network of child sexual exploitation, human trafficking and other crimes”
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/child-pornography-sex-tourism-in-honduras
April 21, 2025
The 200-year-old Monroe Doctrine is alive and on steroids
By John Perry and Roger Harris
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/the-monroe-doctrine-is-alive-and-on-steroids
April 23, 2025
Hazardous machinations of Canada’s mining elite in communities across Latin America
By Jennifer Moore
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/hazardous-machinations-of-canadas-mining-elite-across-latin-america
May 13, 2025
Xinka people say a resounding, reverberating NO to Pan American Silver mining in Guatemala
By EarthWorks and MiningWatch Canada
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/a-resounding-reverberating-no-to-mining
May 20, 2025
Yet another indigenous land defender killed near the Fenix mine in Guatemala resisting Canadian mining
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/yet-another-indigenous-land-defender-killed-in-guatemala-resisting-canadian-mining
May 21, 2025
Aftermath of landmark Hudbay Minerals lawsuits: “Quiet period” is over
By lawyers Murray Klippenstein and Cory Wanless, and Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/successful-results-in-landmark-hudbay-minerals-lawsuits
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“I, like you, love love, life, the sweet enchantment of things, the sky-blue landscape of January days. My blood swells and I laugh through eyes that have known the flow of tears. I believe the world is beautiful and that poetry, like bread, is for everyone. And that my veins do not end in me but in the unanimous blood of those who struggle for life, love, little things, countryside and bread, the poetry of all.”
Roque Dalton
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Other Information
TESTIMONIO-Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala
Edited by Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell, Between The Lines, 2021
https://www.testimoniothebook.org | https://btlbooks.com/book/testimonio
“Under The Shadow” podcast series
A look at U.S.-led imperialism in Latin America, starting in early 1800s, by Michael Fox, with NACLA and The Real News Network
March 18, 2024
Bitter white-washing of U.S. role in Guatemala by author of “Bitter Fruit: The Untold Story of the American Coup in Guatemala”
By Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/bitter-white-washing-of-us-role-in-guatemala
May 22, 2024
Genocide Trial in Guatemala Brings Memories of Israel’s Role in the Killings
Progressive Magazine article by Mary Jo McConahy
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/genocide-trial-in-guatemala-brings-memories-of-israels-role-in-the-killings
June 12, 2024
Ixil Genocide Trial in Guatemala: “a clear intention to exterminate”
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/a-clear-intention-to-exterminate
September 12, 2024
Land and rights defense work OFRANEH and Garifuna people against tourism-driven ethnocidal violence and corruption
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/ofraneh-garifuna-people-against-ethnocidal-violence-land-theft
October 18, 2024
Corporate Assault on Honduras: Mafia-style investments and the Honduran people’s struggle for democracy and dignity
Report by Jen Moore and Karen Spring
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/the-corporate-assault-on-honduras
December 20, 2024
Operation ‘Just Because’ remembered
By Grahame Russell
https://mailchi.mp/rightsaction/operation-just-because-remembered
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"To allow any of them to pass into the comfort of forgetting would be utterly obscene."
(Lawrence Thornton, Imagining Argentina)
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