Category Social Movements

Mexico Protests Monsanto with a Carnival of Corn

May 31, 2013 · by · in Activism, Food, Social Movements, Sustainability · 1 Comment

This article first appeared on May 30, 2013 on Waging Nonviolence, “a source for original news and analysis about struggles for justice and peace around the globe.” Feel free to share it in accordance with Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 licensing. On May 25, an estimated two million people across 50 countries participated in the […]

Food Not Bombs, Mexico City.

May 28, 2013 · by · in Activism, Community Organizations, Culture, Economics, Food, Social Movements, Sustainability · Leave a comment

I had just gotten back to Mexico City from a trip to nearby Cuernavaca and was putting down my backpack when my housemate Paula said, “hey, I’m going to a Food Not Bombs meeting. Want to go?” “Food Not Bombs? In Mexico City? Sure, let’s go.”

We Need More Information to Migrate to the USA from Mexico.

March 31, 2013 · by · in Activism, Drug War, Social Movements, U.S. intervention · 2 Comments

“Extremely difficult.” That’s how a member of Mexico’s Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity described last year’s caravan through the USA. Why? Because unlike in Mexico where the whole country has faced the repercussions of the drug war’s violence in one way or another, the population that the caravan encountered in the USA was […]

We Make Our Way by Walking

October 16, 2012 · by · in Social Movements, Travel · Leave a comment

Al andar se hace el camino. (We make our way by walking.) -Antonio Machado After work last week I rushed over to the library in San Francisco’s Mission District to work on my blog. I’ve been trying to launch it for some time now – fussing over what it should be about, reading old textbooks […]