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Extracting from Pachamama's womb

Leyla Noriega has been active for more than 20 years, campaigning and reporting on injustices against indigenous people and the natural environment across the northern regions of Chile. The newly independent state had conquered the area around 1880 to access mines and natural resources that had previously been under the rule of Peru and Bolivia, and before then, by Incas and Aymaras who called the area Qullasuyu. One day the mining companies which Leyla had seen tear towns apart before in the area arrived at her mother and grandparents' town of Belén, at around 133 km from the city of Arica and at an altitude of 2800m and it was a very different feeling.  Mining laws in Chile were created specifically to easily sell land and water to private companies, during the Pinochet dictatorship, so that any private company that finds an element in the mountain can claim it for their own, and exploratory machinery can be installed up to a total of 39 machines without requiring any specific p...

El Raval se auto-organiza contra el trafico de drogas duras

Es el siglo 21. En el barrio Raval de Barcelona se mezcla la crisis económica, la gentrificación, la drogadicción , el aislamiento social , el mobbing y los planes doctrina shock de los fondos inmobiliarios y gran capital. Todas estas cosas son una tormenta perfecta contra los vecinos del Raval. Los vecinos de toda la vida que ayudaron a reconstruir el barrio, algunos migrando de todas partes de España en el post guerra, y los vecinos mas recientes, que llegaron como migrantes, turistas o estudiantes y quisieron quedarse a hacer sus vidas en estas calles. A post shared by Roig22 (@picalquers.roig) on Jul 4, 2017 at 4:44am PDT En todo el barrio se siente el aire pesada y húmeda de la resignación, del miedo, del haber dejado de esperar que mejore, ya no pudiendo ni creer lo que vemos cuando vamos ya con miedo por las calles, o mirando nuestras cartas con nuevas boletas y subidas de alquiler. Todo el barrio???? No!! Una aldea poblada por irreducibles ravaleñ@s sigue luchando ...

The legend of the tooth mouse

Once upon a time there was a mouse called Lauchito, who was very crafty and worldly and had been in all kinds of kitchens stealing little bits of food from the humans. The humans didn't mind too much because he was a very clean mouse and always tidied up after himself, and because long ago he had befriended a small boy who had given him some food in exchange for some of the little night that he kept in his cave, back when humans didn't have night and had to sleep in the bright sun instead. The mouse was always playing tricks on the fox, who was very greedy and not very nice. Most of all the fox wanted to be like a human. And one day he managed to marry a princess who had a baby daughter and later became king. But he was not a very nice king and made everyone very poor by taking all their money and keeping it himself. The princess became a queen and her daughter became princess. The fox king didn't like the princess and kept her locked up in the castle all the time. She h...