Cross-posted from IPS News Service By Dahr Jamail Cristina Reyes, president of the local community council, is working to improve women’s lives. Credit:Erika Blumenfeld/IPS CIUDAD ROMERO, El Salvador, Feb 23, 2011 (IPS) – Women are playing a leading role in a powerful social movement addressing natural resource protection, adaptation to climate change, and corporate accountability […]
Climate: Putting people over money
Cross-posted from Al Jazeera Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields. By Dahr Jamail While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, […]
Human Toll of the Sugar Cane Industry
On November 19, over 300 people gathered at the office of the Mangrove Association , EcoViva’s partner organization in El Salvador, to draw attention to the impacts of sugar cane plantations on communities living in and near the Bay of Jiquilisco Biosphere Reserve, El Salvador’s largest protected area. It was powerful to see national, regional […]
