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• Guatemala: Peaceful Resistance in the Face of Violence

  By kevodell on October 30, 2012 • ( 0 )

  We have featured the struggles in the communities of San Pedro Ayampuc and San José del Golfo before <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/third-month-of-resistance-against-a-radius-gold-owned-mine-in-guatemala/"Yoli" Oquelí, here. News that the communities had been awarded the Alice Zachmann Human Rights Defender Award also reached us and… Read More ›

• Totonicapán action

  By kevodell on October 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Regarding the massacre at Totonicapán, if people want to take action you can use the attached letter (click on ‘read more’ below) or sign up to the AVAAZ petition here.

• Totonicapán, Those Who Are No Longer With Us.

  By kevodell on October 18, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “On the night of October 4th, Totonicapán hospital was completely overshadowed by a halo of confusion and crying. A sour, toxic, acidic odour, the typical stench of tear gas, much alike to pepper – although much worse – was hanging… Read More ›

• Science, the Maya and the End of the World?

  By kevodell on October 14, 2012 • ( 0 )

  In the past year, the Maya have been on the news because the Mayan Long Count Calendar will reach the end of a cycle. Sensationalist news linked this end of cycle to a prophecy that warns us about the eminent… Read More ›

• Totonicapán rising

  By kevodell on October 10, 2012 • ( 0 )

  “The death toll of last week’s massacre of Maya K’iche protesters in Totonicapán continues to increase, with reports of up to 8 or 9 killed; at least 6 of the 34 people injured in the attack remain hospitalized. Initial evidence,… Read More ›

• Indigenous protesters killed in Totonicapán

  By kevodell on October 5, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Renata Avila writes on the Global Voices site that, “at least 7 civilians were killed, up to 32 were injured, and 35 were intoxicated on October 4, 2012, when combined armed forces violently removed demonstrators from Cuatro Caminos (”four roads”),… Read More ›

• Q&A: Guatemala’s Bold Attorney General Makes a Dent in Impunity

  By kevodell on October 2, 2012 • ( 1 )

  “Since Claudia Paz y Paz Bailey became attorney general in Guatemala in 2010, a string of crimes involving military personnel who fought leftwing guerrillas, drug traffickers and organised crime have been cleared up. The mild manner of this 46-year-old doctor… Read More ›

• In Memoriam: Adolfo Ich Chamán

  By kevodell on September 29, 2012 • ( 0 )

  James Rodríguez of MiMundo has put together this special multimedia entry commemorating the third anniversary of the murder of Adolfo Ich Chamán, Q’eqchi’ Mayan schoolteacher, recognised anti-mining leader, and land tenure activist from El Estor, Guatemala. Mr. Ich Chamán was… Read More ›

• Video Girls for Change

  By kevodell on September 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  Participatory Video (PV) is a set of techniques to involve a group or community in shaping and creating their own film. The idea behind this is that making a video is easy and accessible, and is a great way of… Read More ›

• Criminalization and Violence Erupt in the Shadow of the Escobal Mine

  By kevodell on September 27, 2012 • ( 0 )

  We have featured the struggles of San Rafael Las Flores against mining interests before both <a href=http://gsntest.jocote.org/uncategorized/goldcorp%e2%80%99s-legacy%3a-criminalization-and-mining-resistance-in-san-rafael-las-flores/' right to consultation in the face of the project and last week, in an unclarified series of events, violence erupted when security forces… Read More ›

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