Posted by Carleen Pickard in Uncategorized on 30th November, 2010 | No Comments
The first leg(s) of the Via Campesina caravans are over – the three delegations arrived from Guadalajara, San Luis Potosi and Acapulco. Two thousand, five hundred join the International March For Life and Social and Environmental Justice and march through Mexico City.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Uncategorized on 29th November, 2010 | 3 Comments
On the second day of the Via Campesina caravan from Acapulco to Mexico City, we hear from the community of Alpuyeca and march through the streets of Cuernavaca.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Featured on 29th November, 2010 | 3 Comments
On the road to COP 16, La Via Campesina caravan delegation member Irene Florez reports:
Traveling with the Via Campesina caravan from Guadalajara to Cancun, our delegation is now picking up about 20 additional climate activists at every stop. Converging through rallies, marches, and civil disobedience actions, the Via Campesina caravan members are meeting with allies in various towns and cities and alerting local populations about the Cancun summit, picking additional passengers up along the way.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Featured on 28th November, 2010 | 3 Comments
The Via Campesina caravan left from Acapulco today – international and Mexican activists and independent media journalists heard from communities in Guerrero – disputing their forcible expulsion from their homes and fighting a mega dam project called La Parota.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Uncategorized on 28th November, 2010 | 4 Comments
I’m just about to meet my international and Mexican traveling companions for the next week and board the Via Campesina caravan from Acapulco, Mexico. First stop on this journey today will be to the much disputed potential site of the mega hydro-electric dam called La Parota and meet with community members and the organization Consejo de Ejidos y Comunidades Opositores a la Prensa La Parota (CECOP).
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Uncategorized on 27th November, 2010 | 1 Comment
Climate activist from around the globe have been planning activities on and around December 7 to unite as a community for climate justice and to denounce false solutions to climate change. Get involved by participating where ever you are!
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Uncategorized on 22nd November, 2010 | No Comments
Climate justice campaigners, environmentalists and social justice advocates from around the world will be arriving in Mexico over the next week, many joining the three caravans set to depart Acapulco, El Salto (Guadalajara) and San Luis Potosí, arrive in Mexico City and then travel on to Cancun, arriving December 3rd.
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Posted by Shannon Biggs in Community Rights on 9th November, 2010 | No Comments
As autumn rolls out, the Rights of Nature roll in with a dynamic movement building across the globe. How can we as humans alter our relationship with nature from that of ownership to one of harmony? We are pleased to share that world leaders such as Vandana Shiva, Maude Barlow, and 2010 Right Livelihood Awardee Nnimmo Bassey are joining us in a new paradigm shift: the Rights of Nature.
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Posted by Carleen Pickard in Uncategorized on 25th October, 2010 | No Comments
The international peasant movement, Via Campesina, is hosting caravans to Cancun in the lead up to the COP 16 meetings and the grassroots forums planned for early December in Cancún. Find out more about the caravans and how to join one.
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