South America / Carribean

Articles

• Tributes to Hugo Chavez
  8 March 2013, by siawi3

  The late Venezuelan president’s Bolívarian revolution has been crucial to a wider Latin American philosophy - “History will affirm, justifiably, the role Hugo Chávez played in the integration of Latin America, and the significance of his 14-year presidency to the poor people of Venezuela” former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva

• Mexico: Creating a healing space for women human rights defenders
  15 May 2018, by siawi3

  After several years of reflecting on self-care and collective care, in August 2016 the Mesoamerican Initiative of Women Defenders (IM-Defensoras) and Consortium Oaxaca created Casa La Serena: a space dedicated to the self-care and wellbeing of women who are activists and defenders in the national chapters and networks of IM-Defensoras in El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua and Mexico. Our data confirms that in Mexico, 91% of women human rights defenders endure stress on an everyday basis—reiterating the critical importance of self-care for these women.

• Brésil : « La victoire de Bolsonaro a libéré le racisme, le machisme, l’homophobie »
  12 décembre 2018, par siawi3

  Avec l’élection du nouveau président d’extrême droite, l’écrivain brésilien Milton Hatoum décrit un climat de peur, sur les réseaux sociaux comme dans la rue. Mais « l’extrême droite n’aura pas raison de la force de notre métissage ».

• Brazil: Bolsonaro Rising
  13 November 2018, by siawi3

  Brazil is a long way from mounting anything like a popular front-style resistance to the rise of fascism. From Brazil’s history, we know that promises to “sweep away” corruption end in disaster, or dictatorship, or both.

• Imagine a Feminist Internet
  24 May 2016, by siawi3

  The event is open to women’s rights activists and techies who are interested in exploring the growing impact of technology on our politics, movements, and futures.

• BERMUDA GAY MARRIAGE BAN
  7 March 2018, by siawi3

  Jamison Firestone, a human rights lawyer, has written an open letter to cruise ship operator Carnival Corporation, whose subsidiaries include Cunard, Prince and P&O cruise lines. He urges Carnival Corporation to no longer sail its ships under the flag and laws of Bermuda, in protest at the island’s decision to repeal marriage for same sex couples. ’I believe that the public will be interested in learning where Carnival Corporation really stands on marriage equality and LGBTQ rights’.

• “We Need a New Culture on the Left, Pluralist and Tolerant”
  31 August 2014, by siawi3

  In a wide ranging acceptance speech for the 2013 Liberator’s Prize for Critical Thought, sociologist and author Marta Harnecker discusses the essential role of genuine popular participation in the revolutionary transition to “21^st Century Socialism” in Latin America, exercising power in the “inherited (capitalist) state” to build the foundations of a new political system, and the fundamental need for a new pluralist and tolerant culture on the left.

• Peru: Activist framing of abortion and use for policy change in Peru
  27 July 2019, by siawi3

  Four dominant frames emerged and were used by at least half of all those interviewed. The four frames were: Autonomy, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Economic, and Pragmatism.

• Brazil Gay Pride in Sao Paulo Challenges Brazil’s Homophobic President
  25 June 2019, by siawi3

  As many as three million people were expected to take part in the annual march through the heart of Brazil’s economic capital, traditionally an exuberant celebration of camp, color and fantasy. This year, many participants said they were turning out because they feel their liberties are increasingly under threat.

• Brésil : Religion, évangélisme, politique et militantisme gay
  31 janvier 2017, par siawi3

  La radicalisation religieuse diabolise l’autre : les homosexuel·le·s, les femmes qui luttent pour leurs droits reproductifs. Nous sommes traités comme une menace à une famille qui n’existe pratiquement pas. Pour les Eglises évangéliques, les mêmes droits civiques pour les gays représentent un « privilège ». Le caractère fondamentaliste du néo-pentecôtisme (venu des Etats-Unis) refuse tout changement-clé de la société. Il est devenu fort grâce à l’absence de l’Etat. Les Eglises sont des lieux de réunion et de référence pour la conduite morale des gens. Comme c’était un bon terrain électoral, de nombreux opportunistes se sont convertis. D’entreprises blanchissant l’argent, ces Eglises se sont transformées en partis (le Parti républicain brésilien et le Parti social-chrétien).

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