Latin America
Successful struggles for change give inspiration
In April and May, while in South America as part of solidarity brigades to Venezuela and Bolivia, I met some people who have risked everything to make their communities and their countries better places to live. I became so used to people passionately fighting for things they believed in that when I returned to Australia I received a sharp shock.
Suddenly I was back among people who, in general, did not care much or want to know about issues of inequality or other problems in our society. It is for these people that this is written.
Haiti: A natural and human-made catastrophe combine
Any large city in the world would have suffered extensive damage from an earthquake on the scale of the one that ravaged Haiti’s capital city on January 12. But it's no accident that so much of Haitian capital Port-au-Prince now looks like a war zone.
Resistance member interviewed by Al Jazeera on Colombia crisis
Latin American and Asia Pacific International Solidarity Forum
A conference to share ideas and experiences between Latin American, Asia-Pacific and Australian social movements, political organisations and individual activists, and to build solidarity with grassroots movements and political organisations fighting neo-liberalism.
Free the Cuban 5
