This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Protecting resources in Ecuador The Rochester Committee on Latin America will host a talk on the topic “Who Speaks for Nature? Indigenous Environmentalists against Extraction in Ecuador” on Wednesday, October 4. Speaker Karleen […]
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Urban Action 9/6
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Talk focuses on Central America and US policies The Rochester Committee on Latin America will present “More of the Same in Central America,” a talk by Grahame Russell, on Wednesday, September 6. Russell […]
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Urban Action 4/5
This week’s calls to action include the following events and activities. (All are free and open to the public, unless otherwise noted.) Detaining immigrants, making money The growth in the number of undocumented immigrants detained by the US has been accompanied by a growth in for-profit prisons detaining them. The Rochester Committee on Latin America […]
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The dirty fight for farmland in Latin America
Even though much of the world’s food supply still comes from small farmers, those same farmers from Honduras to the Philippines increasingly cannot feed their own families, and they’re fighting for survival. A wave of “land-grabbing” has swept across continents over the last 30 years — a phenomenon cited in a 2014 report by the […]
