Threats multiply – LAB Newsletter June 2019
2 July 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend
Threats multiply - to women, diversity and the environment
Somos Guerreras is a collective of seasoned artists comprised of...
Towards a Living Amazon: Rios de Encontro European tour
Rios de Encontro presents the origins and eco-cultural vision of the AfroRaiz Collective of young afro-indigenous performance-educators from...
Greta Thunberg: voice and silence
This open
letter, from a distinguished group of Brazilian mental health academics and
professionals, was first published in El Pais Brazil on 2 September 2019. You
can...
Santiago de Chile: Graphic images of the violence
These images of the recent violence in Santiago, Chile, taken during the last few days, were sent to LAB on WhatsApp
Chileans demand the right to live in dignity
'No son $30'
On Friday 18 October, Chilean president
Sebastian Piñera announced a state of emergency in the country’s capital
Santiago. As protests spread throughout the country...
The Chilean Spring
It is spring in the Southern hemisphere. But in Chile, this spring is different - Santiago, 29 October
‘Chile has woken up’ is one of...
Marabá, Brazil – sowing the seeds of Bem Viver
At the end of their European tour of Belgium, Germany, Austria and Poland, performance troupe AfroRaiz return to their home city of Marabá, Pará,...
Victor Jara presente – across the world
Immediately following the military coup in Chile on September 11 1973, the Pinochet dictatorship set about destroying as much as they could lay their...
Chile’s long, hot summer of discontent
It’s 11 January 2020, and I am sitting on a hot and unforgiving cement esplanade, at the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of Chile’s...
The Past is an Imperfect Tense
A well-to-do white couple living in São Paulo, Brazil, adopt a black baby. The Past is an Imperfect Tense tells the story of this father-son relationship, which begins with great love and affection but ends up in ruin and rejection.