Solidarity Updates

29September, 2018

Solidarity Update: September 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:47+00:00September 29th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: AJR, CALDH, CICIG, Constitutional Court, Escobal mine, genocide trial, Grassroots gatherings, grassroots global justice alliance, Ixil, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, Ohlone Shellmound and Village Sacred Site, Solidarity to Solutions Summit, Tahoe Resources, Xinka Parliament|0 Comments

News recap: Court affirms that the state enacted genocide, but finds Rodríguez Sánchez not guilty in a split decision; Constitutional Court upholds temporary suspension of Escoal mine and calls on the State to consult [...]

24August, 2018

Solidarity Update: August 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:48+00:00August 24th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: Escobal, Estuardo Quevedo, Front Line Defenders, Huehuetenango, Inter-American Development Bank, Ixquisís, Sebastián Alonso Juan, sign-on letters, Tahoe Resources|0 Comments

News recap: Communities in Huehuetenango call out the Inter-American Development Bank for human rights and environmental violations in Ixquisis; Over 60 international organizations call for an investigation into the murder of environmental activist Estuardo [...]

30July, 2018

Solidarity Update: July 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:48+00:00July 30th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: accompanier perspectives, assassination, attacks, Estuardo Quevedo, José Mauricio Rodríguez Sánchez, Maya Achí, nisgua report, U.S. border, U.S. imperialism, U.S. militarism, violence|0 Comments

News recap: Environmental activist Ángel Estuardo Quevedo killed in a wave of assassinations; Accompanier perspectives on violence at the U.S. border; New NISGUA report: Defending an ancestral decision-making process; Maya Achí women from Rabinal [...]

24May, 2018

Solidarity Update: May 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:49+00:00May 24th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: 500 years, accompanier perspectives, Alex Reynoso, cinema, Emma Guadalupe Antonio Theissen, Grassroots gatherings, March for Life, Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, Molina, Molina Theissen Family, Topacio Reynoso Pacheco, water|0 Comments

News recap: VICTORY! Four former military officials found guilty in the historic Molina Theissen trial; Host a summertime community screening of 500 YEARS!; Accompanier perspectives on land, genocide, and gentrification in Guatemala and the U.S.; Security measures restored [...]

26March, 2018

Solidarity Update: March 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:05:49+00:00March 26th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: ACODET, actions, AJR, CALDH, Chechenyo Ohlone, crimes against humanity, Emma Guadalupe Molina Theissen, forced disappearance, genocide trial, Marco Antonio Molina Theissen, Nebaj, NISGUA Local, nisgua report, Ohlone Shellmound and Village Sacred Site, Rios Montt, Rodriguez Sanchez, sexual violence, Tahoe Resources, tour, transitional justice, Xalalá Dam|0 Comments

News recap: Prayerful action on the Equinox at the Ohlone Shellmound and Village Sacred Site in California; Genocide retrial moves to Nebaj to hear testimonies from elderly and protected witnesses; Nearly 40 years later, former military [...]

25January, 2018

Solidarity Update: January 2018

By nisgua_admin|2019-12-27T19:06:42+00:00January 25th, 2018|Categories: Defense of life and territory, Justice and accountability, Solidarity Update, Trans-Territorial Organizing|Tags: accompaniment, AJR, attacks, Bay Area, Constitutional Court, CREOMPAZ, Escobal, GAP, genocide trial, Grassroots gatherings, Huehuetenango, hydroelectric dams, land defenders, Military Zone 21, Ohlone Shellmound and Village Sacred Site, PDHSA, Rios Montt, Sebastián Alonso Juan, Tahoe Resources|0 Comments

News recap: We're ready for 2018 with a new cohort of GAP volunteers; NISGUA Local: Building connections between global movements to defend life and territory; Members of the AJR denounce ongoing racism as they [...]