Article published in Amauta with permission from the author by Beverly Bell “Collapsed house, no number” is an old expression that Haitians uses to indicate that their flimsy homes of sticks-and-mud or shoddy cement blocks have finally fallen apart. Today that expression could serve as the motto for the capitol city of Port-au-Prince. Take Helia Lajeunesse, an unemployed children’s [...]

by IRIN BANGKOK, Oct 5 – Up to half a million people in the Pacific will lose their homes and their countries to rising sea levels because small island nations cannot persuade the rest of the world to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently, campaigners say. The Alliance of Small Island States (AOSIS) is calling for a significant [...]

por Marchan Macan-Markar BANGKOK, 12 oct (IPS) – “Me quedé un poco asustada”, dijo la jefa de la Alianza de Pequeños Estados Insulares (AOSIS, por sus siglas en inglés), Dessima Williams, al evaluar la conclusión este mes de las negociaciones sobre cambio climático en la sede de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas (ONU). “Nuestros temores tienen [...]

The collapse of civilisation will bring us a saner world, says Paul Kingsnorth. No, counters George Monbiot – we can’t let billions perish

The environmental and social crisis that threatens us requires deeper solutions than new technology alone can provide

by Bill Fletcher, Jr., It is one thing to notice that a house under construction has been abandoned by the contractor who was to be building it.  That happened in my neighborhood (and actually many other neighborhoods) more than a year ago, making it very clear that something was going wrong in the economy.  It is [...]

Nota del editor: Sin sustento, no hay libertad, no hay vida, no hay forma de resistir las injusticias diarias que vienen a oprimirlo a uno cada vez más. No hay libertad. El hambre es una de las injusticias más grandes de nuestros tiempos porque el alimento es un derecho humano que se le esta negando [...]