Jackson Doliscar, community organizer and human rights defender. Photo courtesy of Other Worlds.

Cross-posted from Other Worlds. Some things never change. In Haiti, no matter the century or decade in question, one can be certain that: the state and elite are trouncing the rights and needs of the majority, the population is protesting …

Five Years After the Earthquake in Haiti, the Sad State of Democracy and Human Rights Read more »

Cross-posted from Other Worlds. The streets of Belo Horizonte were filled with singing, dancing, chanting, and marching. It was not a holiday or an election day or a soccer game. The chant was: “We don’t want incineration! Recycle! Recycle!” (See …

Cultivating Climate Justice: Brazilian Workers Leading the Charge Toward Zero Waste Read more »

Kettly Alexandre of the Peasant Movement of Papay Women's Committee. Photo: Beverly Bell

Interviewed by Beverly Bell, Edited by Jessica Hsu The Peasant Movement of Papay (MPP) is one of the largest small-farmer associations in Haiti with 70,000 members, of whom close to half are women. MPP was founded in 1973 to improve …

Gender Equity for Rural Haitian Women: An Interview with Kettly Alexandre of the Peasant Movement of Papay Read more »

Part 2 of Other World’s Harvesting Justice series The first group of protestors at Occupy Wall Street publically delivered 23 complaints, outlining the ways in which corporations control our daily lives. Number four asserted, “They have poisoned the food supply …

Food Sovereignty: Think Globally, Eat Locally Read more »

from a speech by João Pedro Stédile, Co-coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement of Brazil Edited by Beverly Bell João Pedro Stédile is an economist, co-founder and co-coordinator of the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil, and leader among Latin …

Facing Off: The Integration of Capital V. The Integration of Peoples in The Americas Read more »

“Over a half-century ago, Mahatma Gandhi led a multitude of Indians to the sea to make salt in defiance of the British Empire’s monopoly on this resource critical to people’s diet. The action catalyzed the fragmented movement for Indian independence …

Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain – Food Sovereignty Read more »

Cross-posted from Other Worlds. Inside the USAID-headquarters-turned-courthouse in Port-au-Prince, the case against former Haitian dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier was being heard, in a trial unlikely to bring justice to the hundreds of thousands killed and tortured by him and his father …

Another Poor Black Boy Dead in Haiti Read more »

Cross-posted from Other Worlds On this International Women’s Day, we rerun a 2005 piece on one of our greatest heroines, Marie Simone Alexandre. Though she died eight years ago, her life and message remain as powerful and inspirational today as …

Sister Simone: Eulogy for a Haitian Heroine Read more »

Three years after the deadly earthquake in Haiti, what has become of the commitments made on Red Cross billboards, the promises from telethon hosts, the moving declarations of Presidents Obama and Clinton? What has happened to the nearly $10 billion …

A Tale of Two NGO’s: In Haiti, Disaster Aid or Aid Disaster? Read more »

AN INTERVIEW WITH LARRY COHEN, PRESIDENT OF THE COMMUNICATIONS WORKERS OF AMERICA December 10, 2012 Larry Cohen has headed the 700,000-member Communications Workers of America (CWA), under the banner of “Fight Back,” since 2005. Prior to that, he headed up …

On Human Rights Day, Building The Movement To Reclaim Democracy Read more »