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Nicaragua - Mexican coyotes (people smugglers)

Me gustaría contar lo que me contó un taxista en Managua. Él intento cruzar hacia el norte, por tierra, hasta USA. Fue llevado por coyotes hasta Honduras donde lo asaltaron, por lo que tuvo que regresar a Nicaragua. En esa ocación perdio 3,000 dolares.
En el segundo intento llego hasta México, pero la Migra Mexicana lo detuvo y deporto hacia Guatemala. Desde ahí realizo un ultimo intento, para ser detenido una ves más por la policía méxicana.
Los coyotes guías, cuando se tienen, lo llevaban por caminos fuera de carretera, únicamente comiendo frijoles (cuando había) y durmiendo en el suelo. Finalmente, cansado de tanto maltrato, asalto y llevadera por los países, regreso a Nicaragua.
Ahora trabaja como taxista, y ahí…

by Rodrigo Peñalba on 31/12/08 | Read More

People-centered economic development

My story starts with my colleage and founder’s story and a paper he delivered to the US Presidential re-election committee in 1996. it described a new model of people-centered economic development.
http://www.p-ced.com/about/history/
That led on to his work in Russia where he sourced a development project and microfinance bank for the city of Tomsk. Then on to Crimea to propose similar action for economic development of the repatriated Tatar community.
http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/economicdev.html
Obstructed by local corruption he spoke out about children dying in the streets, calling on a nation to develop a spine and confront their corrupt leaders. They did just that a year later.
http://eng.maidanua.org/node/331
Returning to the US to Chapel Hill NC, he lived in a tent and began…

by anonymous on 28/12/08 | Read More

Indigenous Struggle worldwide

North America
Algonquins of Barriere lake
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/
Located about 400 km north of Montreal, Quebec, the Algonquin community is struggling to regain control after the government unjustly deposed their traditional government and placed them under third party management.
Ihanktunwan
http://intercontinentalcry.org/judge-refuses-to-stop-hog-farm-on-sioux-land/
In South Dakota, the Ihanktunwan People (Yankton Sioux) are resisting an industrial hog farm being constructed right beside them. The resistance culminated a couple months ago, with state troopers encroaching on their land to defend the farm.
Shoshone
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoshone-building-permanent-arbor-on.html
For years the US government has systematically abrogated the Shoshone’s land rights. Continuing to do so, the government is preparing to increase it’s nuclear weapons development efforts on Shoshone lands. Meanwhile, the sacred Yucca Mountain continues to be eyed for a…

by Ahni on 17/12/08 | Read More

Riots in Greece - Rage is not just a feeling. It is a struggle for social justice.

DAYS OF DEMOCRACY 2008 EITHER WITH THE GUNS OF THE POLICE - OR WITH THE STRUGGLES OF SOCIETY No insurrection in history could ever be controlled, manipulated, or submitted to ideologies or political parties and mechanisms, it could never be merely political in content. Every riot, every insurrection has always been a social affair and has thus been deeply political in the broadest sense. After the murder in cold blood of 15-year-old Alexandros, a tumult of rage and discontent has come to the surface. A wave of excluded, disappointed, repressed, desperate people flooded the streets, of diverse cultural background, education, experience and class and were united in a spontaneous cry of a society that is being suppressed, deprived of its…

by anonymous on 11/12/08 | Read More

Mexico / USA border - volleyball over the wall!

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hXyijizUsJ4

by anonymous on 10/12/08 | Read More