Tag Archives: Latin America
We already lost Savita in Ireland. Don’t let Beatriz die in El Salvador.
TweetEd. note: This is a guest post by Juliana Britto Schwartz. By day, Juliana is a student at University of California, Santa Cruz. By night, she is a Latina feminist blogger at Julianabritto.com, where she writes about reproductive health justice, immigration, and feminist movements in Latin America. You all remember Savita Halappanavar, right? Well, the world is looking at another Savita [...]
Also tagged abortion access, abortion rights, El Salvador, pro-choice Comments closed
“The war on drugs has become a war on women”
Tweet Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu. Pic via CNN. Violence against women in Latin America is on the rise–and it’s partly thanks to the US’s ineffective drug policies. A delegation of women, led by Nobel Laureates Jody Williams and Rigoberta Menchu, released a report yesterday on the horrifying levels of gender-based violence in Mexico, Honduras, [...]
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Videos from the non-violent war against the violent drug wars
TweetProstitutes and secret service and Latin America, oh my. This year’s Summit of the Americas was reduced to a scandal about secret service agents too dumb or too cheap to pay the money they owed the sex workers they solicited in Cartagena. But the real story is that Latin American leaders are coming out of [...]
Also tagged drug wars, javier sicilia, movement for peace with justice and dignity, secret service prostitutes, secret service prostitution, summit of the americas, war on drugs Comments closed
The Feministing Five: Natalia García Pasmanick
TweetNatalia García Pasmanick, aka Favi, is a San Francisco-based vocalist, musician, rapper, performance artist, and visual artist. Raised in a musical family, she grew up singing Latin American and Iberian traditional music like guaguanco or tonada carvajal as well as being classically trained at San Francisco Girls’ Chorus. A mujer descendant of campesinas living in [...]
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How you can support the domestic workers movement