The 2018 Caravana de las Danzas 2018, dancing in La Plaza de Talca and taking a walk around the Barrio en Colores, an open air museum in the población Brilla el Sol, with murals evoking the customs of the region such as rodeo, the Cueca, etc.
Wendy Tyndale, with her book...
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
11 September 2019
Amazon fires caused by land-grabbing on an industrial scale
Amazon burned -- at Terra Nossa, near Altamira, Pará. Neighbouring land occupied illegally by grilheros, was untouched. Photo: José Cícero da Silva/Agência Pûblica.
In addition to our...
The
vast expansion of British mega-mining in Latin America is displacing
communities, destroying ecosystems, costing lives and polluting our
planet. The Rivers are Bleeding: British Mining in Latin America documents 56 UK-mining operations – 32 of which have ongoing conflicts –to produce a damming indictment of one of the world’s most powerful industries.
Mining conflicts are fuelled...
Somos una Asociación que trabaja por los derechos de las personas trans en Chile. Nos fundamos en enero del 2015 y hoy nos posicionamos como una de las organizaciones trans más reconocidas del país. Conformada por activistas y profesionales trans y cis, dividimos nuestro trabajo en unidades: atenciones, investigaciones, legislación y políticas públicas, educación y capacitación (Oteduca),...
Early in November 2016 Peter and Lindsey from Eden Project Communities visited Santiago, Chile, at the invitation of Ciudad Emergente, an NGO dedicated to developing ‘Human-Centred Cities.’ In June of that year, several members of their team visited a Big Lunch in the UK. Six months later, Santiago had its very own...
El Gran Malón is an invitation to hold Malones, street lunches, throughout Chile, on the same day, with the idea of getting to know your neighbours, sharing a meal and building the community.
The first Gran Malón de Chile was held on Saturday 8 abril 2017, and more than 11,800 people met together, in...
A documentary about María Jesús Sanhueza, one of the leaders of the 2006 secondary school student protests in Chile, known (for their school uniforms) as the Revolución Pinguina (Penguin Revolution). All over Chile, students occupied their schools, demanding free public education.
Video: RealDaisyGirls. Published Dec 2012
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
27
March 2019
Voices versus the new
populism
Alzira de Fátima Venâncio Barbosa, who lives by the Paraopebas River. Alzira’s income was dependent on the river, as she would fish and cook for fisherman. Photo: Rodrigo Zaim/Christian Aid
Voices of Latin
America:...
Afshin Rattansi goes underground on how the mining of its resources are linked to environmental disaster, and the London Stock Exchange. Patricio Bustamante Diaz, Archeo-Astronomist and Community Advisor in the mining community of Caimanes, Chile, discusses the effects of copper mining on the environment.
Video: RTUnderground. May 2016