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1. Life in Cuba has grown harder. Biden’s modest reversal was too little too late

   water trucks or air conditioners, usually without access to the manufacturer’s official replacement ...

2. Interview: Resisting empire and injustice through fiction

   a more just economy. If people can be kind amid years of water scarcity, despite horrifically low wages, ... ask people what they actually need, nor to examine why there are water supply issues in the first ... place. Had they asked, they might find that all the water is being redirected to European-owned mines, or ...

3. Mexican authorities detain whole community for protecting water

   Environment Indigenous Latin America & the Caribbean Tamara Pearson Water land rights Mexico ... water privatisation Puebla The Escolásticas community in Querétaro state, Mexico, has been subjected to ... land and natural springs is being attacked by private interests who want access to the water so they ...

4. Mexico for sale: Sheinbaum set to win presidency amid protests, low turnout

   rights, the environment, women's rights, water, justice for murdered journalists and for the forcibly ... core issues the country is facing, such as water shortages, caused in a large part by industries and ... corporations consuming huge amounts of water, or that the majority of workers are informal and have no rights, ...

5. Mexican groups call for global protests against corporate water plundering

   Water Santiago de Mexquititlan More than 500 people from 18 states around Mexico, representing 125 ... February 18–19. The Assembly for Water and For Life brought together groups that are resisting ... transnationals and local companies stealing water for their production, while leaving locals without. The ...

6. Mexican police attack IWD protesters demanding an end to impunity in crimes against women

   around the municipal palace, and spray protestors with water and tear gas. Photo: Tamara Pearson Metal ...

7. Mexico: Indigenous activists launch global campaign against water bottling transnationals

   other organisations, are calling for a boycott of water bottling companies, such as France’s Danone. ... the community centre they had built upon what was previously a water-bottling plant, owned by Danone’s ... water Mexico.jpg The eating area and entrance to the space before it was seized by the military. Photo: ...

8. Mexico: Indigenous communities take over water-bottling plant to use as a social centre

   Mexico water privatisation Bonafont Puebla For four months, Indigenous and local communities in Mexico ... a bottled water brand owned by Danone, a Paris-based food corporation. With large rocks blocking the main ... pollution, water scarcity, and other issues in their areas. Photo: Tamara Pearson But on Sunday, August 1, ...

9. Mexico: Communities want Bonafont water gone

   Tamara Pearson Puebla United States and European water bottling companies are making huge profits ... from packaging and selling Mexico’s water resources, while leaving locals without water. Indigenous and ... but now it is all dried up. “Bonafont is an act of death, because now we can’t get any water from our ...

10. Indigenous Mexicans stand up to multinationals threatening their survival, climate

    Economy Environment Indigenous Latin America & the Caribbean Tamara Pearson Water Puebla ... mostly European and United States corporations are plundering water and resources. 343- The convoy ... marches past a Bonafont water bottling plant in Puebla state cr Tamara Pearson.jpg The convoy marches past ...

11. Mexico quietly hands its water supply over to transnationals

    water supply. But there was little in the news about it. The media framed the measures as “guaranteeing ... water (supplies) for the next 50 years”. The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) also got behind the decrees, ... under the pretence that they protect the environment. After academics and water rights activists ...

12. The US government is illegal, not migrants

    advantage of cheaper rent, water, electricity and labour, then sending the goods and profits to the US. ...

13. Mexican guards let 41 migrants and refugees die in fire, US policy responsible

    water. US and Mexican migration policy Despite the few COVID-19 restrictions currently in place within ...

14. Why global news is essential for individual and social well-being

    way Coca Cola steals water from Indigenous communities in poor countries is no longer a random and ...

15. The urgent global climate revolt we need

    Many of us are already living through water scarcity, increased food prices as farmers struggle with ... in Mexico, Indigenous peoples shut down a water bottling plant and ran it as a community centre. We ... corporations plundering water and resources. Photo: Tamara Pearson Climate and corporate greed condemns ...

16. 'Its a big mistake to be a journalist in Mexico'

    Pearson Mexico: Indigenous communities take over water-bottling plant to use as a social centre Mexico: ...

17. ‘Walmart Land’: US chains colonise Mexico, displace local culture

    most violent year yet Mexico: Indigenous communities take over water-bottling plant to use as a social ...

18. Mexico: Strange and excessive abuses by corporations, officials and narcos are slipping under the radar

    anything else, few people found out what happened. Meanwhile, a water company tried to illegally drill ... already has a deal with the narco-aligned private water company. He has gone back on his promise to ... de-privatise the company and instead, his government has passed measures to ensure water cut-offs. When it ...

19. Amid pandemic, US drinks beer, produces cars, military tech at expense of Mexican lives

    vast factory-scapes of cities where they hog the water and leave locals without. The operations of ... would use 25 % of water reserves in the drought-stricken region. Constellation Brands had spent US$700 ... and many lack any or regular access to running water. According to a survey by the Institute for ...

20. We must address global inequality, poverty and climate change to solve the pandemic

    devastating to us. Already, in my city of Puebla, half the population has no access to water, or not enough. ... the population has no, or not enough, access to water. Photo: Tamara Pearson. It has never been ...

21. Climate change is a crime being perpetrated against us

    oceans and the humiliating lack of clean air and water are the results of choices made by CEOs and their ... political lackeys. Coca Cola, for example, has decided to use 1 million litres of water a day in its ... Chiapas, Mexico plant, to produce its morbid beverage, while leaving locals without water. Pepsi, Nestle ...

22. Mexico: US and corporations key factors behind most violent year yet

    serve Walmart, cause environmental damage and leave locals with less access to water. "Mexico ... getting a pension, or the lack of water. People stay quiet because there are too many battles and few are ... disappeared student teachers on September 26. Photo: Tamara Pearson. Mexico: The devious ways one water ...

23. Mexico: Police fail to respond to racist attacks

    stole the tools. This was all captured on camera. Later, while migrants were carrying water across the ... off the refuge’s access to water and electricity. For the past week, migrants have had to fill buckets ... of water from a nearby shop tap and carry those buckets up a steep staircase. As a volunteer with ...

24. In Mexico, there are many types of earthquakes

    Most of us get water for only 30 minutes a week. The poor parts of Puebla City and state, like much of ... water in their homes, and most Mexicans earn less than US$380 per month. But there is no “mark yourself ... they didn’t have anything to eat and had only been given water and blankets by the army. Most people ...

25. As Trump complains, Mexicans support Central American refugees

    disaster. It was hard to walk a block in this town [in Chiapas] without seeing crates of free bottled water ...

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