Honduras
200 Environmental and Land Rights Activists Killed in 2016 as Global Crisis Spreads
Killings of those protesting land grabs in one-third more countries than 2015 Nearly four people were murdered every week in 2016 whilst protecting their land, forests and rivers from mining, logging and agricultural companies, a new report from Global Witness...
Activists Taking on Hydroelectric Projects Face Persecution, Assassination
This week, Pablo Solon will be summoned for his first declaration before a prosecutor and could potentially be placed into preventative detention. Solon, Director of Fundación Solon, former Executive Director of Focus on the Global South, and former Bolivian...
Berta Cáceres’ Daughter Escapes Machete Attack in Honduras
The Guardian reports that Bertha Zuñiga, daughter of the murdered Honduran environmentalist Berta Cáceres, has survived an armed attack. Zuñiga, 26, was attacked along with two other members of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organisations of Honduras...
WATCH: Indigenous Leader Honors Berta Caceres at People’s Climate March
Tom Goldtooth and Kandi Mossett of the Indigenous Environmental Network (IEN) were on hand for the People's Climate March in Washington, D.C. on April 29, where hundreds of thousands protested the Trump administration’s environmental agenda. IEN and other indigenous...
Sowing The Seeds Of Berta Cáceres
Honduran Feminist Musician And Writer On Us Tour, April 20 – May 23, 2017 By Beverly Bell Two Honduran cultural workers, feminists, and close friends of Berta Cáceres will tour 20 US cities between April 20 and May 23, 2017 to “sow the seeds of Berta.”...
Berta Is Dead, But The Movement She Started Lives
Copinh Celebrates Its 24th Anniversary By Beverly Bell The Convergence of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) has defied all efforts over the past year, by the Honduran government and the DESA dam company, to destroy it. This past Monday,...
Heaven And Earth Don’t Belong To The Companies
The Role Of Lenca Culture In Defending Lands, Waters, And Peoples In Honduras: An Interview By Pascuala Vásquez By Beverly Bell Part of a series remembering Berta Cáceres from Otherworldsarepossible.org Beverly Bell: You’ve been part of COPINH for many...
Earth Minute: Berta Cáceres, One Year Later
Global Justice Ecology Project’s Anne Petermann spoke about the one year anniversary of the assassination of Berta Cáceres on the Sojourner Truth Radio Show for this week’s Earth Minute segment. Sojourner Truth airs every week on KPFK-FM in Los Angeles and streaming...
We Are Going to Triumph: Letter to Berta Cáceres from her Daughter
On what would have been indigenous and environmental movement leader Berta Cáceres' 45th birthday, we reproduce this letter from her daughter Laura. Cáceres was assassinated in her native Honduras just before midnight one year and one day ago. Her...
The Vision and Legacy of Berta Cáceres: An Interview with Berta and Laura Cáceres
This month mark's the one year anniversary of the assassination of Honduran environmental activist Berta Caceras . Caceras was a long-time ally to GJEP when this organization was working as ACERCA. You can see our initial reporting on her assassination here. The...