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May 2023 Guatemala Field School with UNB
Next May, join Professor Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell of Rights Action in a UNBC field school to Guatemala. Grahame and Catherine have worked together since 2004 to organize and facilitate these experiential learning opportunities in Guatemala, and also recently co-edited and co-wrote several sections of their new book Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala (2021).

Guatemalan Judge Miguel Angel Galvez flees into exile
Below: El Faro news editorial and article

Atacado, golpeado, robado - Luis Adolfo Ich Choc, defensor Q’eqchi’ de El Estor
Rights Action comparte esta información de parte del Consejo Ancestral de Pueblo Q’eqchi’ de El Estor

Attacked, beaten, robbed
Rights Action shares this information from the Ancestral Council of the Q'eqchi' People of El Estor, Guatemala.

Between the Lines, Who Published TESTIMONIO, Celebrates 45 years!
Rights Action gives thanks to the "group of leftist activists from Toronto and an anarchist printing collective from Kitchener-Waterloo [who] came together to found Between the Lines" in 1977, and to those who keep BTL going strong.

U.S. government sends $4.4 million of military equipment to corrupt, repressive Guatemala government
This is what U.S.-led western imperialism looks like in the Americas

“Get out. Haitians have been telling Canada, United States, Europe to get out”
Stop ‘international community’ support for Haiti’s white war lords



Another mining project threatens Maya Q'eqchi' territories & communities in Guatemala Linked to Switzerland-based Solway Investment Group/ CGN
“Everything indicates that the government will repeat the same old pattern:
trampling on the people to help extractive companies forcefully enter the territories
and continue plundering the natural resources.”