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Mexico - the struggle is not regional or national, but global

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Pensaba en el robo sistemático de tierras en el sur y recordé pasajes de mi vida en la sierra.
“De todos ustedes no se hace uno como Ladislao”
Amargamente hacía su reclamo don Gustavo a sus compañeros de ejido al ver impotente la conducta característica, hoy en día, del ejidatario. La que contrasta con la que recuerda de su tío, Ladislao Medellín, quien fuera uno de los jóvenes que pelearon aquellos años en la revolución.
Ese lamento es el mismo lamento amargo que corre por mi sangre a manera de reclamo para mis adentros, que me obliga a desear encontrarme desahuciado y tomar esto como excusa para patentar mi vida como algo útil dentro…

by Nahum Sanchez on 19/07/08 | Read More

Power at a local level

The interests of the powers that be and societal inertia contribute to the disempowerment of much of humanity. Some of us have felt that a great contribution to resistance can be made by finding or developing ways that people at the local level can be more in the driving seat of their own destinies. Examples of this range from improving ways that city people can feed back into municipal decision making in Scotland, involving illegal sturgeon fishermen on the Danube in improving sustainable fishing or ensuring that indigenous communities in the Pacific or Amazon jungle do not lose their traditional rights over the resources (and livelihoods) by helping them exercise their stewardship.

by anonymous on 17/07/08 | Read More