Hundreds of grassroots African, Afro-descendant, Black and Indigenous feminists, including those from the Americas, are gathering from 11 to 15 September in Nairobi, Kenya, for the Berta Cáceres International Feminist Organising School (IFOS). This will be the first edition of the School, known as IFOS, to be held in Africa. “It will be an opportunity to learn from grassroots feminist…
--- We’re here with Andrés Muñoz from Friends of the Earth Spain to discuss the characteristics and consequences of industrial livestock farming, as well as a landmark court ruling in Galicia stemming from a lawsuit over pollution from industrial livestock farms in the Limia River and the As Conchas Reservoir. Andrés, how are you? Thank you so much for taking…
A few weeks ago in Brazil, IARAA—an Artificial Intelligence tool for Agrarian Reform and Agroecology—was launched. The tool was developed by the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) and the World March of Women (WMW) and supported by the Baobab International Association for People’s Cooperation in China. To discuss this, I’m joined by Natalia Lobo, an activist with the World March…
The accountability mechanism of the International Finance Corporation (IFC) decided to close a formal complaint against the Tata Mundra coal-fired power plant in India, financed by the IFC, despite confirming the continuing serious impacts of the plant over the last 12 years. The Compliance Advisor Ombudsman (CAO) of the IFC (body of the World Bank for the private sector) confirmed…
“This is a state of war. The Governments and corporations declared war against people and the planet and their favourite weapon of mass destruction currently is called climate crisis. This is a deliberate act of violence,” said Sinan Eden, activist of Climáximo, in a roundtable interview with Real World Radio. Sinan was interviewed together with Fadhel Kaboub, Associate Professor of…
After the right-wing administration led by Daniel Noboa in Ecuador eliminated the diesel subsidies through decree 126 of 12 September, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) decided to call for a general strike and mobilisations. Ever since, the government's repression and persecution of mobilised social organisations and human rights abuses have continued unabated. The decision to call for…
On June 16, a judge of the Municipal Court of Jericó, a municipality in the department of Antioquia, released eleven peasants who are facing legal proceedings for opposing a mining project of transnational corporation AngloGold Ashanti in the area. The decision allows the peasants to continue the process while remaining free, contrary to the request of the Prosecutor's Office that…
“In the early hours of today, the Israeli occupation launched large-scale airstrikes on Iran — a dangerous development that transforms what was already a genocidal campaign in Palestine into a regional war with unforeseeable consequences”, warned this Friday La Via Campesina. “This marks a new phase in a long-standing colonial project, now fueled by imperialist impunity, aimed not only at…
The upcoming 3rd Nyéléni Global Forum to take place in September 2025, is set to be one of those milestones that shape the history of peoples’ struggles, in this case, the struggles of peasant movements and organisations that promote food sovereignty, alongside all the organisations that carry that banner in every corner of the planet. Following the 2007 and 2015…
“There is a common assessment, not only by civil society, social movements or the people, that the multilateral system has failed, and is not delivering solutions to global and common problems,” said Gonzalo Berrón, representative of the Transnational Institute (TNI). “We have to reform the UN,” he added in an interview with Real World Radio. A group of several social…
