An encounter of social movements and organisations calling for a new multilateralism at the service of the peoples and the planet began on Thursday in New York, United States, ahead of the United Nations (UN) Summit of the Future to be held in that same city on 22 and 23 September. The encounter*, which will be held until Saturday at…
Jaron Browne is the director of the Grassroots Global Justice Alliance (GGJ) in the United States. He attended the meeting “Weaving Emancipatory Proposals” in May 2024 in Guatemala, where he granted an interview discussing prison abolition, a struggle emerging from anti-racist organizations. Jaron, a trans person, underscored how important feminism and organized LGBT+ people are for the abolition struggle. While…
“We will not achieve Food Sovereignty if we can't recover control over our communities and territories, if we can't take back control over food from the corporations”, warned peasant Carlos Marentes, a long-standing leader from La Vía Campesina. “This is a complicated struggle, it requires intense work. In the current political climate — of oligarchy and increasingly extreme conservatism, states…
Daniel Kovalik, writer of “The Plot to Scapegoat Russia”, deepens on how the US has intervened in many ways in Latin America in the 20th and 21st centuries, including the situation in Nicaragua. Since last April, several so-called “civil society” organizations have been demanding the exit of the Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional and its president Daniel Ortega from office,…
