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.
12 October 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | PPT in Southern African countries
Eight small-scale farmers from Tanzania were arrested late 2016 in Malawi, after entering the country legally invited by national organizations to know more about the impacts of uranium mining, which is the object of many exploration projects in Tanzania. Read more
11 September 2017 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
“We want to express that we are living in a pseudo democracy, with embodiment of torture, trauma and terror, and this is due to the repressive policy of Honduras with the military government”, said Juan Almendarez, Executive Director at Movimiento Madre Tierra – Friends of the Earth Honduras. Read more
8 September 2017 | Videos | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | PPT in Southern African countries
Below we share a video where community members resisting mining in South Africa explain the reasons behind their struggles, the threats they receive and the alternatives raised by them, such as sustainable agriculture. Watch video
8 September 2017 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
Approximately 16 people were arrested on the early morning of this Friday while they were carrying out a peaceful protest at Universidad Nacional Autónoma of Honduras, in Tegucigalpa, capital of the country, in defense of public education and to demand the release of several students prosecuted. Read more
18 August 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk | PPT in Southern African countries
The 2nd session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal (PPT) on transnational corporations, organized by the Southern Africa Campaign to Dismantle Corporate Power and held in Johannesburg, South Africa, came to an end on Friday. A third session is scheduled to take place in October in Geneva, Switzerland, towards the elaboration of a Peoples Treaty to deliver to the United Nations. Read more
19 July 2017 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
Social activism in general and environmental struggles in particular are under threat in Russia today. The so-called “Foreign Agents Law” is effectively silencing several non-governmental organizations (NGOs) or directly forcing them to dissolve. Continuing the work for environmental protection is really a huge challenge in current Russia. Read more
14 July 2017 | Interviews | Social activists at risk
The Union of Palestinian Women´s Committees (UPWC) is protesting the administrative detentions, for three and six months respectively, of their chair, Khitam Saafin and MP Khalida Jarrar, of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP, which Israel deems to be a terrorist organization). Read more
12 July 2017 | News | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
On July 6th, in a preliminary judgement, a court in Puno, Peru, sentenced Aymara leader Walter Aduviri to seven years in prison after finding him guilty of the crime of riot at the anti-mining protests of May 26, 2011, known as “Aymarazo”. The other nine leaders accused were acquitted. Read more
28 June 2017 | Photo Galleries | No to the coup d’état in Paraguay | Monitoring transnationals | Continental Day 2017 | Social activists at risk
The Montevideo Meeting will take place on November 16-18 in this Uruguayan city, in the framework of the Continental Day for Democracy and against Neoliberalism, which gathers since 2015 the most representative social forces of the Americas. The Meeting was launched on Tuesday in Montevideo. See gallery
27 June 2017 | Interviews | Monitoring transnationals | Social activists at risk
It’s been six years since the socio-environmental conflict known as the ‘Aymarazo’ in Peru, a mobilization that happened in the province of Puno in 2011, against the mining project ‘Santa Ana’, owned by the Canadian company Bear Creek Mining Corporation. Read more
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