On this episode of Voices are Action, we discuss three central issues: 1) From 12 to 16 November, the Peoples' Summit will be held in the Brazilian city of Belém, in the state of Pará, in the Amazon. This summit is the response of social movements around the world to a new edition of the UN Climate Change Conference -COP30-,…
These are the headlines of our fourth episode of Voices are Action, our new podcast series. 1. Argentina – Mendoza: The Assembly for Water of Uspallata, a town in Argentina located at the head of the Mendoza River basin, is currently threatened by the actions of the San Jorge open pit mining project, in a context of public power grabbing…
Feminist economy and environmental justice are closely connected. They both provide strong criticism of the false solutions offered by capitalism to the crisis capitalism itself has created. And they both propose grassroots struggles that point toward a reorganization of society, ways of life, and the relationship between human beings and nature. Nevertheless, articulating these agendas together across movements, organizations, and…
“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…
17 April marks the International Day of Peasant Struggles. It commemorates the massacre of 19 landless workers in Eldorado Dos Carajás, Brazil, in 1996. Like every year, La Via Campesina calls to action, this time under the slogan “Land, water and territories for life”, and calls to mobilise for “a comprehensive land reform and ambitious public policies to stop land…
Feminism is a social and political movement without borders that brings a critical and transformative look at all aspects of the organisation of our lives. Feminism strives for a radical transformation of the system. In each territory, it takes the shape, demands and wishes of the women and communities that are present there, and then through solidarity and internationalism, those…
In order for me to write poetry that isn’t political I must listen to the birds and in order to hear the birds the warplanes must be silent. Marwan Makhoul This 10 December is undoubtedly marked by the endless human and collective rights violations against the people in Gaza and the West Bank, where there is an ongoing genocide and…
“I feel that the Continental School, and maybe other schools that have been carried out across the continent, are going to empower women, especially peasant women, who do a lot.” This was a reflection by Susan Owiti about the initiatives conducted by peasant women who have, in 2024, held for the first time a coordinated series of Continental Schools of…
Amid bombings, war crimes, mass killings of civilians, most of whom are women and children, missing persons, famine and the devastation of entire cities, environmental justice seems like a minor issue. But it is not. The link between the environmental destruction of a territory and that of its original people is inseparable. Chemical residues in the soil, water and air,…
Dismantling and resisting patriarchy is essential to Food Sovereignty, forest management and democracy and in the struggle against oppressive economic systems and political institutions. Below are interviews with three people leading the charge toward a more just, equitable, and feminist world that centers gender justice. How do patriarchy and other oppressions stand in the struggle for democracy and forests and…
