by Raul Zibechi at Red Latina sin fronteras translation via thefreeonline
Introduction from 03/12/2021
One of the profound joys that the pandemic has brought me, despite all the pain, is having met new organizations, always below and to the left, in various countries of our America. Teia dos Povos (Network of Peoples) is one of them, which brings together indigenous, black and landless peasant communities. Organize the seventh day of agroecology in Bahia (Brazil) at the end of January .(https://teiadospovos.org/).
In the heat of the Colombian revolt, we “discovered” Canal 2 de Cali (canal2.co), a television station committed to the street, and Radio Contagio de Bogotá (contagioradio.com), with which we embarked on the path of coordinating independent media, an alliance that we hope expand to the entire continent.
Another organization that I was unaware of is the Mujeres de Frente collective, which was born in the Quito prison in 2004, “made up of imprisoned and non-imprisoned women, embarked on a process of anti-penitentiary feminist research-action.”
On their page they define themselves as “a community of cooperation and care between autonomous street vendors, recyclers, domestic workers, university students, teachers, artists, released women, relatives of people in prison, children and adolescents” (https ://mujeresdefrente.org/).
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