The use and exploitation of words and images has historically favoured men in whose hands, lies the authority of important and universal texts concerning the conduct of cultures and nations. Women have been the losers as a result. Marjorie Andrea González Ramírez It doesn’t always happen, but it happens […]
Tag: construction
Stop the Combe Haven Valley motorway
Saturday 17th August sees the start of ‘The Extinction Festival’; a protest movement, planned by the country’s activists and environmental groups, who together aim to put the brakes on the planned construction of a link road connecting Bexhill and Hastings. The event, at an Eco-farm in Bexhill, East Sussex, […]
Latin America, a region for migrants
The economic growth of the region has caused it to experience significant changes in its migratory flow. With intra regional migration on the rise we see the arrival of many Europeans along with many Latin Americans now returning home. . Ramón Alabau . Passport in hand, Carlos with high hopes […]
In Bolivia they are made of mud
Tomás Quispe was a carpenter in Concepción of Belém (Conception of Bethlehem), a village of mud and straw lost in the monotonous flatness of the Bolivian Altiplano, but in the absence of wood and work he is now the potter of the village where clay is still the essence, materially […]
Colombian mining, a fruitless business
In 2009, Colombia lost more than half of its possible income from raw materials to large European transnational companies due to an unsustainable mining policy that also affects indigenous towns and the environment. . Benjamin Serra . The mining industry and the extraction of resources, like hydrocarbons, have been […]