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Podcasts with Harsha Walia, author of Border & Rule, and Grahame Russell, co-editor of Testimonio
We recommend two recent podcast episodes from Writing the Coast: BC & Yukon Book Prizes podcast.
Support the Garifuna Community in Honduras this #Giving Tuesday
Tomorrow is #GivingTuesday. This year we are fundraising to support OFRANEH and the Garifuna land defenders and people in Honduras.
To begin to solve the Haitian situation, the imperialist west - led by US, France, Canada - must stop backing White Warlords in Haiti
“In colonial times, 30,000 white slavers in Saint-Domingue (Haiti) had no chance of survival among 450 000 enslaved Africans, unless they benefited from the unflinching support of the armies of France, Britain, or Spain. This was the slavers’ real source of power and dominance.”
U.S. Government Sanctions Swiss-based Solway Investment Group for Corruption in Operation of Fenix Nickel Mine in Guatemala
“U.S. sanctions Solway executives, for running "multiple bribery schemes over the years involving Guatemalan politicians, judges and officials..." and "illegally giving cash payments to public officials in exchange for support of […] mining interests."
Who is the woman with the gun, attacking - with the Guatemalan police - a Q'eqchi' villager from El Estor?
This aggression was apparently carried out on behalf of the palm company Naturaceites and the Swiss mining company Solway Investment Group, and its subsidiary CGN.
Below: Prensa Comunitaria article
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.