There could be 100 million climate refugees in the next five to seven years, warns Leonardo Boff. Credit:Daniela Pastrana/IPS

Daniela Pastrana interviews LEONARDO BOFF, Brazilian writer and theologian*

MEXICO CITY, Dec 28, 2010 (Tierramérica) – “The market is not going to resolve the environmental crisis,” says theologian and environmentalist Leonardo Boff, professor at Brazil’s State University of Rio de Janeiro. The solution, he says, lies in ethics and in changing our relationship with nature.
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Market in Espinal where the túmin community currency is used. Credit:Courtesy of Intercultural University of Veracruz

By Emilio Godoy

MEXICO CITY, Dec 21, 2010 (IPS) – Túmin, which means “money” in the Totonaca indigenous language, is a community currency now circulating among 80 vendors selling their products at an alternative market in the town of Espinal, in the eastern Mexican state of Veracruz.
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Thalif Deen

NEW YORK, 29 décembre (IPS) – Alors que l’année 2010 touche à sa fin, les États-Unis et les Nations Unies ont tendu la main à l’un des groupes les plus marginalisés du monde : les peuples indigènes ou autochtones. Continue Reading

Greve Geral. Crédito: Cortesia UGT web

Mario de Queiroz

Lisboa, Portugal, Nov 10, (IPS TerraViva) – O protesto sindical que percorre a Europa chegou ontem a Portugal, na segunda greve geral em 22 anos, em um país com as duas grandes centrais de trabalhadores separadas entre comunistas e socialistas, por suas orientações políticas irreconciliáveis. Continue Reading

Workers at the gates of Ferrominera demand the release of Rubén González. Credit:Courtesy of Radar de los Barrios

By Humberto Márquez

CARACAS, Dec 14, 2010 (IPS) – Rubén González, a 51-year-old welder who is the secretary general of the Sintraferrominera ironworkers union, has spent over a year in prison in Venezuela for leading a strike by hundreds of workers outside the San Isidro mine in Ciudad Piar, 550 kilometres southeast of the capital.
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Indigenous rights protestors bundled away from negotiations by police. Credit:Nastasya Tay/IPS

By Stephen Leahy*

CANCÚN, Mexico, Dec 11, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – If success is measured by delaying difficult decisions, then the Cancún climate meeting succeeded by deferring crucial issues over financing and new targets to reduce greenhouse gas emissions to the next Conference of the Parties meeting a year from now in Durban, South Africa.
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Via Campesina march. Credit:Diana Cariboni/IPS

By Diana Cariboni *

CANCÚN, México, Dec 8, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva**) – The short-cuts that the United Nations system is offering companies to profit from strategies against global warming were the target of loud protests on the Day of Action for Climate Justice.
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Los comercios minoristas florecen en contextos carenciados. Crédito: Ranjit Devraj/IPS TerraViva

Por Ranjit Devraj

NUEVA DELHI, 20 dic (IPS) – Las firmas trasnacionales que impulsan el acuerdo de libre comercio entre la Unión Europea e India prometen a los consumidores una “experiencia nueva y dinámica”, sin importarles qué ocurrirá con las tiendas familiares del país asiático y con sus 40 millones de empleados. Continue Reading

Por William Fisher

NUEVA YORK, dic (IPS) – Yemen usó ayuda militar “antiterrorista” de Estados Unidos para combatir a su insurgencia interna, atacando particularmente a civiles, según la organización Human Rights Watch (HRW), que se basó en datos confidenciales filtrados al sitio web Wikileaks. Continue Reading

María Pía Matta. Credit: Courtesy of Mujeres en Conexión.

Marcela Valente interviews MARÍA PÍA MATTA, new president of AMARC

LA PLATA, Argentina, Nov 15, 2010 (IPS/TerraViva) – Chilean journalist María Pía Matta, a feminist and staunch believer that communication is a universal right based on freedom of expression, is the new president of the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC).
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