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Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the creation of the new Ministry of Eco-socialism and Water during his weekly television program, March 24, 2015. The governments of the Bolivarian Revolution have taken concrete steps to confront the threat of climate change. On Tuesday, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro announced the creation of the Ministry of Eco-socialism … Continue reading
by Marcelo Resende & Vanessa Davies – Correo del Orinoco The Portuñol spoken by Marcelo Resende is beginning to sound more like Spanish than Portuguese. The representative for Venezuela of the United Nations Organization for Food and Agriculture (FAO) does not live in the margin of his country’s problems; on the contrary, he is fully … Continue reading
By CORY FISCHER HOFFMAN Lima, (Venezuelanalysis.com) – No binding commitments to action appear to be coming from the United Nations climate talks in Lima, Peru. Venezuela’s Foreign Minister, Rafael Ramírez, and African nations ask the developed countries to take responsibility for their disproportionate levels of greenhouse emissions. Inside the COP20 Over 10,000 people from 195 … Continue reading
By KATRINA MOORE, FOOD SOVEREIGNTY, FOOD VOICES WhyHunger is pleased to be partnering with Andrianna Natsoulas, longtime food sovereignty activist and author of the book Food Voices: Stories From the People Who Feed Us. In 2010, Andrianna began a journey across the Americas to capture the stories of people working towards and living a just … Continue reading
Mass actions planned at UN meeting: Join the ecosocialist contingent and help build a broad coalition to fight climate change and environmental degradation. by Michael Glasser Michael Gasser is an activist in the Bay Area chapter of System Change Not Climate Change (SCNCC) and a member of Solidarity. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon has called a … Continue reading
Environmentalists who oppose ‘extractivism’ on principle are oversimplifying the complex issues faced by the peoples and governments of Latin America today by Federico Fuentes A recent spate of high-profile campaigns against projects based on extracting raw materials has opened up an important new dynamic within the broad processes of change sweeping South America. Understanding their … Continue reading
Commemorating the International Day of Peasant Struggle by Salena Tramel Source: Common Dreams Sadly, yet not unlike the inception of many commemorative days, the events that inspired the first International Day of Peasant Struggle were soaked with blood. It was April 17, 1996, a calm day in the northern Brazilian municipality of Eldorado dos Carajás, where … Continue reading
By Sonali Kolhatkar A new report submitted to the United Nations Human Rights Council on the “Right to Food” took aim at the entire basis on which food is produced and distributed on a global scale. Reflecting the type of progressive analysis of our food system from experts like Vandana Shiva and Michael Pollan, report … Continue reading
At an organizing meeting in New York, the System Change Not Climate Change coalition adopted plans to reach out to other groups, strengthen environmental activism, and work with capitalism’s victims by Zach Zill and Michael Ware After roughly a year of organizing as the Ecosocialist Contingent and then System Change Not Climate Change, organizers in our coalition … Continue reading
The delegates, men and women, from 88 countries across the world of 183 peasant organizations affiliated with the Via Campesina International an form the Continents of Europe, the Americas, Africa, Asia and Australia, in the context of the 6th International Conference taking place between June 6th and June 13th of current year in Jakarta, Indonesia … Continue reading
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