Hi John,
As our own government slides further and further towards disaster, amidst a news cycle of continuous crises, we look to Latin America for hope. There, the election of a wave of progressive governments is seeing issues like feminism, climate justice and indigenous rights take centre stage.
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WEBINAR: Is there a new ‘red-green’ tide in Latin America?
- When: 6.30pm, Wednesday 5 October
- Where: Online, via Zoom
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Earlier this year, Gabriel Boric became president of Chile, having been elected on a green left platform and vowing to ‘fight the privileges of the few’. His election was preceded by the return to power of leftists in Bolivia, Peru and Honduras, and followed by the election of Colombia’s first ever leftwing president, Gustavo Petro, and vice president Francia Márquez, an Afro-Colombian environmental activist.
Speakers:
- Cassia Bechara, Landless Workers’ Movement, Brazil
- Yasna Tapia, Commons Party, Chile
- Tatiana Garavito, Colombian climate justice organiser
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Twenty years ago Latin America saw a ‘pink tide’ of leftist governments elected. Are we seeing a similar political shift now? How are these elections related to the growing feminist movement in the continent, to Indigenous movements, and to the struggles against mining and ‘extractivism’? What are the prospects of Colombia’s President Petro moving the country away from fossil fuels as he promised? What kind of a setback is it that Chileans rejected a new progressive constitution in a plebiscite on 4 September? And if Lula makes a comeback in Brazil in October, can Latin America once again become a global beacon of hope for fundamental change?
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Join us on 5 October to discuss this exciting wave of progressive politics and activism sweeping Latin America.
Daisy Pearson,
Global Justice Now
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