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Apr 22, 20196 min read
Colombia’s War of Neoliberal Economics
Despite the 2016 peace accords in Colombia, conflict and violence continue due to the U.S.-supported neoliberal economic model. In order...
Apr 21, 20143 min read
“Enséñame a organizar”: Enfrentando las políticas neoliberales a nivel nacional e internacional
Por Celeste Larkin, Chicago Religious Leadership Network Llevo tres años viviendo en Chicago y, en este tiempo, la ciudad ha vivido...
Apr 21, 20143 min read
“Teach me to organize:” confronting neoliberal economics at home and abroad
Celeste Larkin, Chicago Religious Leadership Network I’ve lived in Chicago for the past three years and, in that time, we’ve seen many...
Apr 14, 20144 min read
Charter Cities: The new neoliberal experiment in Latin America
By Elizabeth Perkins, WfP Honduras Team Competition. It’s an inherent concept of U.S. meritocracy, the ‘pull yourself up by the...
Apr 7, 20146 min read
The Impact of the TPP, Part One / El Impacto del TPP, Primera Parte
Español abajo Josh Wise, Minnesota Fair Trade Coalition For nearly five years now, government bureaucrats and lobbyists on both sides of...
Apr 1, 20143 min read
The Human Face (and Price) of Trade
The Witness blog series is back! This month, Witness for Peace, in close collaboration with coalition partners in the United States and...
Oct 23, 20135 min read
7th Milpa Festival: Indigenous Communities Resist
Three months before the 20th anniversary of NAFTA, I found myself in an old school bus traveling through the Sierra Juarez in Oaxaca,...
Aug 23, 20125 min read
Nimbyism and Colombia’s “Socially Responsible” Mine, Cerrejón
By Jeanine Legato WfP Colombia Southeastern Massachusetts, where I am from, was deeply embroiled in a nimby (Not-In- My- Backyard) ...
Aug 3, 20123 min read
Fired GM Workers Commemorate Protest’s Anniversary with Hunger Strike
By Austin Robles WFP Colombia Minutes before he started to sew his mouth shut, Jorge Parra explained his rationale to me: “Essentially GM...
Apr 18, 20121 min read
Voices from the People’s Summit
By WFP Colombia Team As Presidents from across the Americas were getting set to gather for the Summit of the Americas April 14-15, social...
Jan 6, 20124 min read
Honduras: “Libertarians” Model Cities and the Resurrection of William Walker
Written by OFRANEH (Organizacion Fraternal Negra Hondureña) and posted on January 4, 2012. Translated into English by the Witness for...
Oct 20, 20113 min read
“We can neither eat bullets nor guns”: the impact of U.S. military aid on Garifuna commu
By Riahl O´Malley and Brooke Denmark Witness for for Peace International Team – Nicaragua Driving into Triunfo de la Cruz, a Garifuna...
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