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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...

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 ...

So came my epiphany. In the realisation that no-one knows when the end will come, and that we are actually in charge of deciding this. Peak oil is just a tiny part of a much larger point which is our having grown to this size in terms of our consumption of resources for the first time in the history of life. As a Buddhist this is significant because it's a turning point for humankind. If we can survive this issue, we will really be making an incredible cause. There is only one way to do this, and it's to finally realise the connectedness, or even just see the logic in not taking the world to the extremes we've taken it. We have already gone too far and it's not going to be easy to get out of this mess. But there are changes afoot - even Google realise that working with small companies and not seeking to dominate is the business. And one little bit less do we resemble a steaming pile of maggots over a corpse, now lacking the larger millipedes who storm around or the la...