The reality confronting migrants who manage to cross the Rio Bravo, in pursuit of the famous American dream, but finding themselves, instead, engulfed in an inhuman nightmare.
"I'm here to stay I don't want your hate I came to work Not to steal... I came to stay"
Dramatic and...
Bem viver, the good life, is possible -- LAB Newsletter December 2019
Distributing medicinal plants to houses in Cabelo Seco.
This has been an extraordinary year, with many setbacks but some remarkable signs of hope. To celebrate the latter, we report on our partner project Rios de Encontro, in Marabá,...
Conversing with Goliath is a research project carried out by
FLACSO-Mexico and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, sponsored by the
British Academy (2017-2020). The project aims to understand why violence in
Mexico persists in the design and implementation of projects in the extractive
industry when a wide range of participatory institutions exist in law and
policy programmes which, in principle, promote citizen...
Conversing with Goliath is a research project carried out by FLACSO-Mexico and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, sponsored by the British Academy (2017-2020). The project aims to understand why violence in Mexico persists in the design and implementation of projects in the extractive industry when a wide range of participatory institutions exist in law and policy programmes...
Conversing with Goliath is a research project carried out by FLACSO-Mexico and De Montfort University, Leicester, UK, sponsored by the British Academy (2017-2020). The project aims to understand why violence in Mexico persists in the design and implementation of projects in the extractive industry when a wide range of participatory institutions exist in law and policy programmes...
Cartonera books – cheap
books with cardboard covers and photocopied texts – were originally a
by-product of the Cartonero movement in Argentina, when people from the shanty
towns travelled into Buenos Aires and other big cities in the wake of the 2001
economic collapse to collect and sell cardboard and other waste left on the
streets.
LAB was present at Wales’ own Latin America Festival, called El Sueño Existe, held in Machynlleth every other year since 2001. We had a lively session on our latest books, Amazon Besieged and Voices of Latin America; LAB author Louise Morris took part in the discussion workshop on Reproductive Rights in Latin...
London’s First Cartonera Book Festival Celebrates Cultural
Activists from Latin America who Turn Waste into Books
The first-ever London
Cartonera Book Festival will be held from 17-20 September 2019, as part of a
UK-wide festival to celebrate the grassroots ‘Cartonera’ publishers movement
from Latin America. For this event, Senate House Library, the University of
Surrey and the...
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
31 July 2019
Migration
and Displacement at crisis point
In addition to our website, LAB’s Facebook page provides a daily stream of summaries and links to articles published elsewhere. In this and future newsletters we will mention some of these, with the...
This article was prepared for Christian Aid by Nathalie Mercier (Guatemala), Maria Useche (Colombia), Tania Grande (El Salvador) and Javier SanVicente (Honduras)
Main image: migrant child detained at the US border. Source: Guardian podcast: 'What is happening to migrant children at the US border'