Next May, join Professor Catherine Nolin & Grahame Russell of Rights Action in a UNBC field school to Guatemala. Grahame and Catherine have worked together since 2004 to organize and facilitate these experiential learning opportunities in Guatemala, and also recently co-edited and co-wrote several sections of their new book Testimonio: Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala (2021).
Read moreGuatemalan Judge Miguel Angel Galvez flees into exile →
Below: El Faro news editorial and article
Read moreAtacado, golpeado, robado - Luis Adolfo Ich Choc, defensor Q’eqchi’ de El Estor →
Rights Action comparte esta información de parte del Consejo Ancestral de Pueblo Q’eqchi’ de El Estor
Read moreAttacked, beaten, robbed →
Rights Action shares this information from the Ancestral Council of the Q'eqchi' People of El Estor, Guatemala.
Read moreBetween the Lines, Who Published TESTIMONIO, Celebrates 45 years! →
Rights Action gives thanks to the "group of leftist activists from Toronto and an anarchist printing collective from Kitchener-Waterloo [who] came together to found Between the Lines" in 1977, and to those who keep BTL going strong.
Read moreU.S. government sends $4.4 million of military equipment to corrupt, repressive Guatemala government →
This is what U.S.-led western imperialism looks like in the Americas
Read more“Get out. Haitians have been telling Canada, United States, Europe to get out” →
Stop ‘international community’ support for Haiti’s white war lords
Read moreYet another Canadian mining company –Bluestone Resources– defies expressed will of Guatemalan population, trying to push ahead with open-pit, cyanide-leaching gold mine →
By Grahame Russell
Read moreOtra empresa minera canadiense -Bluestone Resources- desafia la voluntad expresada por la población guatemalteca, intenta seguir adelante con una mina de oro a cielo abierto, con uso de cianuro →
Por Grahame Russell, Rights Action
Read moreAnother mining project threatens Maya Q'eqchi' territories & communities in Guatemala Linked to Switzerland-based Solway Investment Group/ CGN →
“Everything indicates that the government will repeat the same old pattern:
trampling on the people to help extractive companies forcefully enter the territories
and continue plundering the natural resources.”