Project Description
Community Consultations: A model of resistance under attack in Guatemala
A bill currently before Guatemalan Congress seeks to co-opt the consultation process and violate the rights of indigenous communities to free, prior, and informed consent. Add your voice in calling on the Guatemalan government to respect the results of community-organized consultations.
Three ways to take action:
1. Print out the postcard and mail it to NISGUA’s office for delivery
2. Read more about the incredible role that consultations play in community organizing to protect land, life, and self-determination
3. Sign the extended action! Petition available here.
Photo: Graham HuntAdditional reading about community consultations
Descansa en poder Don Marcial 🌻
Crédito de fotografía: Rode Díaz. www.rodediaz.com. 2013 “Si ya llega el momento que desaparezco de este mundo, yo no quiero que me construyan un panteón, porque la Madre Tierra me dió todo lo que yo aproveché para vivir y como no tengo otro recurso para devolver a [...]
Clark Taylor, presente!
Crédito de fotografía: Foto cortesía del Hermanamiento de Needham con Guatemala Clark Taylor (y su difunta esposa Kay) fueron campeones e incondicionales de la Comunidad de Patrocinio de Needham (que ellos fundaron). El trabajo de campo voluntario de Clark con la antropóloga Beatriz Manz en los años [...]
Clark Taylor, presente!
Photo courtesy of Needham Guatemala Partnership Clark Taylor (and his late wife Kay) were champions and stalwarts of the Needham Sponsoring Community (which they founded). Clark's volunteer field work with anthropologist Beatriz Manz in the 1970s and 80s contributed to her books Refugees of a Hidden War: [...]
Rest in power Don Marcial 🌻
Photo by: Rode Díaz. 2013 "When the moment comes that I disappear from this world, I do not want a pantheon to be built for me, because Mother Earth gave me everything I needed to live, and since I have no other resource to give back to Mother [...]
10 Puntos para comprender la Crisis Política y el Paro Nacional en Guatemala
“La crisis en Guatemala no es coyuntural, la crisis es estructural” Han sido 17 días en los que los Pueblos de Guatemala han expresado su rechazo hacia las acciones de corrupción, impunidad y perpetuación en el poder de funcionarios y funcionarias públicos. En específico han exigido la renuncia [...]
10 Points to Understand the Political Crisis and National Strike in Guatemala
The crisis in Guatemala is not an isolated moment, it is a structural crisis It has been 17 days of the people of Guatemala expressing their rejection of public officials’ actions of corruption, impunity and perpetuation in power. Specifically, they have demanded the resignation of Attorney General Consuelo [...]
