From March 16 through June 30, a total of 915 people – 606 girls and 309 women – were reported missing, according to authorities.
Last week, Peru’s women’s ministry said 1,200 women and girls had been reported missing during the pandemic – a higher figure that included the month of July.
“The figures are really quite alarming,” Isabel Ortiz, a top women’s rights official, told the Reuters news agency on Tuesday.
Rojava. Têkoşîna Anarşîst (Anarchist Struggle) was created at the end of 2017 after the liberation of Raqqa. An interview. Originally published by Anarchists Worldwide. Anarchists worldwide: From Latin America we have been following with attention and special interest what is happening in Rojava and Syria. First of all, could you explain the formation of the Battalion…
Bolivia begins the week with a general strike against the postponement of the general elections
Posted on August 3, 2020 by the communist in LATIN AMERICA, THE COMMUNIST, THE MOST VALUED // 0 Comments
On Monday morning, the indefinite general strike and the blockade of roads throughout the Bolivian territory began, at the call of the Bolivian Central Workers (COB) and the organizations that make up the Unity Pact, which require the Supreme Electoral Tribunal respect for the election date established by law for next September 6.
These pressure measures were approved in the council held last Tuesday, July 28, in the city of El Alto, to the epilogue of a massive march that converged in La Ceja, in which, together with the COB, the National Confederation of Indigenous Women of Bolivia “Bartolina Sisa”, the Single Federation of Workers of La Paz “Tupac Katari” and other youth and neighborhood organizations.
The protests for democracy in Bolivia have a strength that was missing during the coup in November. This time, the national workers unions are formally mobilising their bases.
According to reports received from different sectors of the country, several strategic points, especially in the western region of the country and in the area of the valleys, have been taken over by social organizations, interrupting the circulation of motorized vehicles. It is estimated that in the course of the next few hours the blockade will be extended to most of the national territory.
The Bolivian Workers’ Center, by means of an instruction, called its affiliates and the Bolivian population to start with the blockade of highways nationwide and an indefinite general strike, starting at zero hours on Monday. The Red Ponchos of the Omasuyos province and its forty cantons announced the blocking of highways throughout its province and surrounding areas.
The Single Confederation of Peasant Workers of Bolivia (CSUTCB) reported that they join the mobilizations, as well as the FEJUVEs from the cities of El Alto and La Paz that asked the population to stock up on food because the blockade will be total.
The organizations of the city of El Alto announced for the first hours of this Monday, August 3, the blockade of the thousand corners, with which they intend to completely paralyze this city. Similar announcements have been made from the city of Cochabamba, where a radical compliance with the pressure measure is also expected.
SubMedia.Tv returns with a new episode of System Fail, which looks at the COVID-19 pandemic and features an interview with Peter Gelderloos.
A look at the social and economic devastation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, with a specific focus on the incompetent state responses of the UK, Brazil and the United States.
U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds fly over the Hudson River during a military flyover as part of July 4th celebrations on July 04, 2020 in New York City. (Photo: Rob Kim/Getty Images)
Win Without War was among the anti-war voices on Friday issuing blistering condemnations of the passage in the U.S. House of a $740 billion defense bill as part of the 2021 Appropriations Minibus.
HungercouldkillmillionsmorethanCovid-19, warnsOxfam.. The UN World Food Programme, which estimates that the number of people facing severe hunger will increase by about 122 million this year as a result of the pandemic, cut food deliveries by almost half in northern Yemen. Oxfam said humanitarian assistance around the world had been curtailed by restrictions on movement and other precautions to prevent the virus spreading. The Oxfam report said only 9% of funding for tackling food security had been met under then UN’s global fund against Covid-19.
by Pablo Heraklio The anarchist militant and libertarian economist Abraham Guillén Sanz wasn born on March 9, 1913 in Corduente (Guadalajara, Spain), in a peasant family,
PDF book about the economics of the Spanish libertarian collectives 1936-1939.. An improved attempt at describing the possibilities of how production and distribution might be organised on libertarian communist linesfrom an anarcho-syndicalist perspective has been made by SolFed here: http://www.solfed.org.uk/solfed/the-economics-of-freedom
As a young man he did agricultural work and worked extracting resin. Then he studied in Madrid on a scholarship from the republican authorities. Affiliated with the Young Libertarian Youth, he was also a member of the National Confederation of Labor (CNT) and the Iberian Anarchist Federation (FAI).
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