Results

    An article on the challenges facing Jamaican women who sought gender equality in the late 1970s. The author argues that women were disproportionately affected by the island's neoliberal economic refo

    An interview with Honor Ford-Smith of the Jamaica School of Drama. Ford-Smith, former CERLAC Associate Director, recounts how she came to form Sistren, a women's theatre collective that draws on the

    In this article that surveys the record of women's rights in the Caribbean, the author suggests that, despite the significant advances made during the UN Decade for Women (1975-85), women remain "lar

    This article on the annual Inter-American Congress on Indigenous Populations presents both critiques of Brazilian policy toward Amazonic peoples (e.g., Ralph Nader's accusations of genocide) and the

    The genocide of Brazil's Amazonic peoples is recorded in this article, in connection with historic and contemporary modes of colonization.

    The conquest and resource exploitation of the Amazon territories is discussed in this presentation to the United Nations Working Group on Indigenous Populations. The presentation emphasizes "the esse

    Focusing on the Waorani (Huaorani) people and encroachment on their territories in Ecuador, this article discusses the violation of Indigenous rights as a consequence of destructive colonial practice

    This article describes how the Jamaican theatre collective, Sistren, hosted workshops on issues that ranged from migration to pregnancy, child rearing, birth control, and sexual violence. Held at sug

    Jamaican poet Lorna Goodison, formerly the writer-in-residence at the University of the West Indies, Mona, discusses how she uses poems as a medium for channeling the suffering of Caribbean peoples—s

    In a report to members of the Committee of Women for Progress (CWP)—women's affiliate of the Workers' Party of Jamaica—the Committee's cooridinator describes how women face increasing precarity under

    An exposé on the damaging effects of oil extraction on the Huaorani (Waorani) peoples in Ecuador, including water contamination, animal extermination, and cancer. Although the Ecuadorian government c

    An expression of Canadian Indigenous solidarity with the Maya people of Guatemala, this article deals with military repression and, as an example of it, recounts the story of an German-American agron

    The Yanomami peoples' territory and survival is the focus of this article. It reveals that the Brazilian government has not take the necessary steps to give the 9.4 million hectares of Yanomami terri

    This article exposes how the Mexican government has violated the rights of Indigenous people to self-determination and autonomy by promoting various mining projects. Indigenous communities have resis

    Distributed by farmlandgrab.org from La Jornada in Mexico. Spokesperson for the Zapatista Movement, Subcomandante Marcos, became an international anti-neoliberal celebrity. The rebellion was launched