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In this section Real World Radio aims to expose the murders of social activists and the cases of death threats against leaders. We will report on the wave of criminalization of the social protest. This new section of Real World Radio is also a memorial page for all those who were murdered in their struggle for a socially just world.

This special section is funded in part by the European Commission.

25 April 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

What Freedom of Speech?

Radio and community centers burned down in Haiti

Last Thursday 21 April, armed men set community radio Tet Ansanm Karis on fire. The radio broadcasts for the Haitian community of Carice, in the northeast of the country and close to the border with Dominican Republic. Read more
21 April 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

Living memory

Interview with Ayala Ferreira (MST): Challenges 15 years after peasant massacre in Brazil

As part of the events to mark the International Day of Peasant Struggle we interviewed Ayala Ferreira. She is a member of the National Coordination of the Rural Landless Workers' Movement of Brazil (MST), in Para state, near Eldorado dos Carajas, where a massacre took place fifteen years ago that would turn every 17 of April in a day of struggle and commemoration. Read more
20 April 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk

Basic guarantees

Honduras: Front of Resistance demands “safe return” of Zelaya

A delegation of the National Front of Popular Resistance (FNRP), the main group fighting against Profirio Lobo's dictatorship in Honduras, met Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez on Saturday 16. Read more
20 April 2011 | Special reports | Social activists at risk

Stop Evictions to Save Peasant Agriculture

Argentina: MNCI introduces bill to stop peasant evictions

We spoke with Alberto Salas and Cristina Loaiz, members of the National Peasant and Indigenous Movement of Argentina (MNCI-Via Campesina) about a bill to stop the eviction of peasant families that were to introduce the law in the Argentine Congress today. Read more
19 April 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

Thou Shall not Forget

Peasants mobilize around the world 15 years after the massacre of Eldorado de Carajas

On 17 April of 1996 nearly 1,500 landless peasants of the state of Para in Brazil, who had been expelled from their lands mobilized to the state's capital, Belem, to demand solutions. When they arrived in Eldorado de Carajas they stopped marching because the pregnant women and the children were tired. However, over 140 military police officers fired at the peasants. 19 peasants were killed and another 69 were injured in the assault. Read more
14 April 2011 | Interviews | Alert! Sandra missing | Social activists at risk

Against All Odds

Colombian activist leading the search of missing colleague is robbed and threatened

Colombian environmental activist Hildebrando Velez, one of the people who have been leading the search for Sandra Viviana Cuellar who disappeared on February 17th , is denouncing that his house was broken into and information about the case is now missing. In addition, the leader has received anonymous phone calls threatening him. Read more
12 April 2011 | Interviews | Alert! Sandra missing | Social activists at risk

Waiting

Bogota: Actions to remember Colombian missing activist

On Friday, several organizations celebrated the world day of action against forced disappearances in Colombia. Activities to remember Colombian activist Sandra Viviana Cuellar who disappeared on February 17th were held in Colombia and in other countries. Read more
12 April 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk

Tired of the Coup

Honduran Trade Unions call for strike supported by Zelaya

In Honduras, a mobilization by trade unions was repressed and a teacher was killed. But sadly, this doesn’t seem to make the news, due to the increasing violence exerted by Porfirio Lobo’s coup regime against social actors that has resulted in tens of dead people and absolute impunity. Read more
11 April 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

A New Trial

Third week of hunger strike by Mapuche prisoners. Families demand new trial.

The news were made known by early March. A Chilean court in Cañete, a municipality located 600 km to the South of Santiago, found four Mapuche indigenous people guilty of a supposed attack against a district attorney and convicted them to 20-25 years in prison. Read more
11 April 2011 | News | Social activists at risk

On Strike

Workers mobilized in Bahrain massively dismissed

By mid-February, a peoples’ movement started to protest against the continuity of the anti-democratic government of Bahrain. Since then, the authorities have been repressing them, and the conflicts resulted in the death of at least 20 people, and over 300 people were injured. Read more