by Leila

By CECOP

El Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositores a la Presa La Parota (CECOP), saluda los trabajos de esta Segunda Asamblea de la Convención Nacional Democrática (CND) y, con el aval y el peso de cuatro años de resistencia contra la construcción de la Presa La Parota, -en defensa de nuestras tierras y del agua del Río Papagayo- nos unimos a la lucha por la conformación de un gran movimiento nacional que enfrente la embestida del gobierno neoliberal, pero con la convicción de que vamos a ganar, tanto en nuestro movimiento regional como también en el gran movimiento social que requiere el país para acabar con el gobierno ilegítimo y espurio, antes de que él acabe con los recursos del país y con las condiciones de vida de la mayoría de los mexicanos.

By Riccardo and Diana

Wind power has been praised internationally as a possible solution to the world's energy problems. Renewable so long as the wind blows and purportedly a cleaner, less damaging source of energy, wind power has companies jumping on the bandwagon to invest in such "green technology".

However, just as in any matter where money and power are concerned, careful attention must be paid to the power relations involved.

By ARK

Radio replaces telephone and newspaper in Oaxacan indigenous villages.

Alfredo Landa walks into a small room, the walls of which have been covered with egg cartons.

Landa sits in front of the microphone and chooses the same song he starts every morning with. At seven o’clock, the community radio of San Juan Guichicovi plays the Mexican national song in local Mixe indigenous language. Mixe is one of the many indigenous languages spoken in the state of Oaxaca.

“We Want Tortillas, Not PAN!”

On January 31, 2007, tens of thousands of Mexicans filled the central plaza of the capital in the March for Food Sovereignty and In Defense of a Minimum Wage and Employment. This megamarcha in Mexico City was a mass expression of similar protests that have mobilized all over the country since the beginning of January when the price of tortillas increased drastically.

By Riccardo D'Emidio

By Anna-Reetta Korhonen

October 15, 2006

By Chris Thomas

An analysis of the hurricane relief processes compares Hurricane Stan with Katrina.