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
Susanne Jonas Obituary
Susanne Jones has died. Long Live Susanne Jonas! By Mary Jo McConahay Susanne Jonas, prolific author, teacher, and indefatigable social justice activist on behalf of Guatemala, and Central America more broadly, died while hospitalized with pneumonia in Oakland on August 31, 2022. She was 80. [...]
The Assembly of the Peoples of Huehuetenango -ADH statemente: Rejection of initiative 6054
ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF HUEHUETENANGO IN DEFENSE OF THE TERRITORY, FOR THE AUTONOMY AND FREE DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLES -ADH- STATEMENT The Assembly of the Peoples of Huehuetenango -ADH, hereby declares its rejection of initiative 6054; which puts at risk even more the fragile state institutions that protect [...]
Compilación de noticias sobre el desalojo violento de Autoridades Ancestrales en Nebaj
Por Feliciana Herrera Los 48 cantones de Totonicapán dan «respaldo total» a autoridades indígenas de Nebaj “Las autoridades indígenas de Nebaj lograron detener legalmente el desalojo que pretendía llevar a cabo el alcalde municipal Gerónimo Bernal Guzmán,, y han sumado como apoyo a los 48 Cantones de Totonicapán, que [...]
Compilation of news in the context of the violent eviction of Ancestral Authorities in Nebaj
By Feliciana Herrera The 48 cantons of Totonicapán give "full support" to the indigenous authorities of Nebaj. "The indigenous authorities of Nebaj managed to legally stop the eviction that the municipal mayor Geronimo Bernal Guzman intended to carry out, and have joined to support the 48 Cantons of Totonicapan, [...]
Statement: Consultation of Neighbors in rejection of all mining activity in Asunciòn Mita, Jutiapa.
September 2022 ASSEMBLY OF THE PEOPLES OF HUEHUETENANGO IN DEFENSE OF THE TERRITORY, FOR THE AUTONOMY AND SELF-DETERMINATION OF THE PEOPLES -ADH-. The Assembly of the Peoples of Huehuetenango -ADH, categorically rejects the imposition of the extractive model, which is expressed in mining, hydroelectric and other forms of exploitation [...]
Statement: Start of discussion against 21 comrades of the Chicoyogüito Community Criminalized for holding demonstrations
Start of discussion Against 21 comrades of the Chicoyoguito Community Criminalized for holding demonstrations Today, September 8, more than a year after 21 of our comrades from the Maya Q’eqchi’ community of Chocoyoguito were detained when we began a peaceful demonstration, the oral and public debate begins through a [...]
