Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell We plant but we can’t produce or market. We plant but we have no food to eat. We want agriculture to improve so our country can live and so we peasants can live, too. - Rilo Petit-homme, peasant organizer from St. Marc, Haiti What would it take [...]

On both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border, transnational industrial livestock firms have benefited economically from the confluence of agriculture, trade, immigration, and labor policies that have pushed cheap commodities south and driven people north.

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author and MRZine Source: MRZine by Rick Wolff February 11, 2010 Global capitalism imploded in 2007.  The central causes of capitalism’s crisis include: 1. the end of real wage increases in the US and the substitution of rising worker debt far beyond what workers could sustain; 2. the buildup of excess global industrial [...]

Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Thom Hartmann Globalization is killing Europe, just as it’s already wiped out much of the American middle class. Spain and Greece are facing immediate crises that many other European nations see on the near horizon: aging boomer workers are retiring with healthy benefit packages, but the younger workers [...]

Fuente: Rebelión La búsqueda de nuevas formas para combatir la pobreza y la desigualdad en América Latina es un imperativo para las nuevas generaciones por Santiago Munevar 23 de enero, 2010 “Entonces América Latina se reformó” Paul Krugman [1] “Una estrategia de reforma que prometió crear una prosperidad sin precedentes ha fracasado de una manera casi sin precedentes” Joseph Stiglitz [2] El neoliberalismo parece [...]

Fuente: Vos El Soberano por Oscar Amaya Armijo 22 de enero, 2010 Es probable que al problema de las maras no le dimos la importancia que requería. Al parecer, la mara es la estructura de organización que el imperio y las clases dominantes, propusieron a los jóvenes de Centro América. La mara es una política imperial de paralización, control [...]

Fuente: IPS por Mario Osava RÍO DE JANEIRO, 23 ene (IPS) – El Foro Social Mundial (FSM) es sólo “un instrumento”, que no se debe confundir con el movimiento alter-mundialista, sostiene Chico Whitaker, uno de los fundadores de este encuentro que celebra su décimo año de vida con un seminario de balance, del 25 al 29 de [...]

What The Haitian Crisis Tells Us About Human Nature Source: Huffington Post by Jeremy Rifkin January 15, 2010 Frantic tweets and videos have been seeping out of Haiti, pleading for help from the rest of the human race in the aftermath of a devastating earthquake that leveled one of the poorest countries on the planet, spreading destruction and death. The [...]

Fuente: Focus on the Global South Traducción: Camilla Vollenweider, Sin Permiso Discurso ofrecido en la conferencia de Acción Popular Mundial durante el Foro Mundial para la Inmigración y el Desarrollo, Atenas, Grecia, 1 de noviembre de 2009 por Walden Bello 1 de noviembre, 2009 Los derechos de los inmigrantes deben ser orientados hacia dos frentes: terminar con las políticas neoliberales [...]

ver abajo: “No hemos terminado”, advierten activistas climáticos Source: YES! Magazine Movement building in this period requires actions that can bring about a radical shift in values. by Grace Lee Boggs December 16, 2009 Climate-change activists at Copenhagen will argue that, far from solving the climate crisis, carbon-trading represents the unprecedented privatization of the atmosphere, and that offsets and sinks [...]