Ecuador

People Power Can Defeat Right In Ecuador

January 16, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Ecuador

By Staff of Tele Sur - We have to “think politically, act politically and organize ourselves politically” to be “close to the people,” Culture Minister Long tells teleSUR. Faced with a resurgent right, Latin America's left has to become even closer to the people, Ecuador's Culture Minister Guillaume Long told teleSUR in an interview marking nine years of the government of Rafael Correa. We have to “think politically, act politically and organize ourselves politically” to be “close to the people” and “not just doing top down public policies” which always “need to be accompanied by the movements, by participation” of broad layers of society, Long emphasized.

A Message Of Hope For The New Year

January 6, 2016 Jack Balkwill, www.dissidentvoice.org Strategize! #BlackLiveMatter, Antarctica, Banks, Bolivia, BXE, Capitalism, China, Climate Change, Cooperatives, Democracy, Ecuador, Elections, Empire, Energy, Environment, Finance and the Economy, Greece, Kurds, Marijuana, Media, militarism, Occupy, Portugal, Russia, sHellNo!, Spain, TPP, Ukraine, Venezuela, Wall Street, Zapatistas

By Jack Balkwill for Dissident Voice. There have been many victories and we need to celebrate them. Among the victories was stopping the northern portion of the KXL pipeline, various new laws in 24 states to prevent police violence and an increase inprosecutions of police who commit violence, and the increase in wages across the country and winning the critically important battle for net neutrality. These were people-powered victories that showed when we act together we have the power to defeat corporate interests. Another ongoing series of victories is seeing local people, who have not been involved in activism, working along with experienced, often young, energy activists, taking on big energy companies in an aggressive way. This is a victory.

Right Wing Protests Constitutional Amendments In Ecuador

December 5, 2015 Staff, www.telesurtv.net Create! Ecuador, Protests

By Staff of Tele Sur - Protesters were seen throwing rocks at police after lawmakers approved a slew of constitutional amendments. Violence broke out near Ecuador’s National Assembly in Quito Thursday, with elements of the opposition throwing rocks and other projectiles after lawmakers passed a series of constitutional amendments. According to sources on the ground and posts on social media from Interior Minister Jose Serrano, individuals began throwing rocks and projectiles at the police soon after passage. Several explosions from fireworks could also be heard. Protesters appeared to be attempting to break through police lines and reach the offices of the National Assembly.

Newsletter: Transformation – Elections & Movements

September 20, 2015 Kevin Zeese, www.PopularResistance.org Newsletter Black Lives Matter (BLM), Bolivia, Democracy, Ecuador, Elections, Great Britain, Greece, Honduras, Jeremy Corbyn, NED, Occupy, Podemos, Scotland, Spain, Syriza, United Kingdom (UK), USAID, Venezuela

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers for Popular Resistance - The United States has unusual challenges for movements working in the electoral system. The two party system is deeply embedded in law and political consciousness so it is very hard for a party challenging Wall Street to be successful. Wall Street and big business are the dominant funders of both parties, the corporate media echoes their message and debates managed by the two parties through a phony “debate commission” keep out alternative views. People challenging that system have little opportunity to get their message out and be viable in the rigged US democracy. The relationship between movements and elections is complicated to navigate but to succeed we will need both an electoral and non-electoral movement that are independent of the corporate duopoly.

Ecuador: Behind Indigenous Uprising Against Correa

September 16, 2015 Federico Fuentes, www.greenleft.org.au Resist! Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples, Left

By Federico Fuentes in Green Left - Ecuador’s President Rafael Correa is facing the most important challenge yet to his self-styled “Citizens' Revolution”. A range of indigenous groups, trade unions and leftist parties mobilised across the country on August 13. Their long list of demands included calls for land reform, opposition to mining, support for bilingual education and the shelving of the government’s proposed water and labour laws. In Quito, the “Indigenous Uprising” — as protest organisers dubbed it — lasted nine days, with organisers vowing to return this month. These were just the latest in a series of mobilisations starting almost a year ago. Late last year, trade unions organised two national protests against changes to the labour law proposed by the Correa government, which expanded social security to cover “housewives” and strengthened job security.

Ecuador Media Outlet Funded By USAID, NED Closed

September 14, 2015 TeleSurTV, www.telesurtv.net Resist! Ecuador, Media

By TeleSurTV - Two journalist guilds in Ecuador have expressed support for the legal action taken by the National Communications Secretariat (Secom) against the NGO Fundamedios, when the government body decided to move forward with dissolving the organization's operating license. The Journalists Association of Guayas and the National Federation of Journalists of Ecuador (FENAPE) expressed support for the move, saying Fundamedios deviated from its founding principles, according to local media Sunday. Last week, Secom decided to withdraw the Fundamedio's license saying it had deviated from its stated mission and continuously intervened in political matters – which is prohibited by both Ecuadorean law and the organization's own internal statutes. According to Secom, Fundamedios engaged in “partisan political activities” by sharing opposition-linked material on its social media accounts, publishing articles unrelated to its stated mission and inserting itself into political debates in the country in support of opposition government figures.

Ecuador’s New Indigenous Uprising

August 20, 2015 Marc Becker, www.amazonwatch.com Resist! Ecuador, Indigenous Peoples, Worker Rights and Jobs

By Marc Becker in Amazon Watch - Ecuador's Indigenous movements have launched an uprising to challenge the government's opposition to bilingual education and its support for an extractive-based economy. On August 2, the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE) began a march from the southeastern Amazonian province of Zamora Chinchipe that will arrive in the capital city of Quito on August 13. Upon its arrival, the Indigenous march will join a general strike called by the Workers United Front (FUT) in opposition to the government's labor policies. The CONAIE march and FUT strike are separate actions from conservative protests that the wealthy and previously dominant oligarchy organized in June 2015 against proposed increases in inheritance and capital gains taxes.

Assange Denied Right To Defend Himself Against Allegations

August 15, 2015 Interview with Carey Shenkman Sharmini Peries in The Real News Network, www.facebook.com Educate! Ecuador, Julian Assange, Law

Interview with Carey Shenkman by Sharmini Peries in The Real News Network - Today's development does not mean that Assange can leave the embassy. The next step is that the whole case in Sweden needs to go away once and for all. It's completely outrageous at this point, because the Swedish courts have already said that this is a closed case. Nearly nine months ago the Swedish court of appeals criticized the prosecutor for failing to move the case forward. In May the Supreme Court, in a split decision, urged the prosecutor to advance the case. And here we are months later, and the prosecutor has still not come to London to question Assange. This is absolutely unacceptable, because back then, months ago, there were four allegations. Now there's just one. It's a very different case now.

Ecuador Just Set The World Record For Reforestation!

July 22, 2015 Amanda Froelich, www.trueactivist.com Create! Ecuador, Environment, Forestation

By Amanda Froelich in True Activist - You often hear saddening statistics about the rate of deforestation from ecologically-minded friends and the news, but how often do you hear about the good that is being carried out to reverse environmental damage? Not as often, that’s for sure. Therefore relish this news story, which features more than 45,000 people coming together to set the Guinness World Record for single-day reforestation efforts. As stated by Ecuador’s president, Rafael Correa, “Ecuador broke a world record for reforestation Saturday, as thousands of people pitched in to plant 647,250 trees of more than 200 species.” On May 16, 2015, thousands of people gathered to volunteer and reforest the Earth. They planted 220 different species of flora on almost 5,000 acres of land, setting a new Guinness World Record. As Ecuador has set a national target to conserve and restore more land than what is deforested between 2008 and 2017, such a project will no doubt help the country maintain its vision.

China: Don’t Drill The Amazon!

June 13, 2015 Jennifer Baker, www.revolution-news.com Resist! Amazon, China, Ecuador, Oil & Gas

By Jennifer Baker in Revolution News - Support the Sápara and protect the Amazon. Recently indigenous leaders from the Ecuadorian Amazon urged Chinese Prime Minister Li Keqiang to cancel plans for Chinese state oil company Andes Petroleum to drill for oil in their territory. Li has promised to use an “iron fist” to punish companies that destroy the environment. Ask him to live up to his promise and to cancel China’s plans to drill the Amazon. Controversial Chinese investment in Ecuador and oil-backed loans are creating an unprecedented new oil boom in the country’s Amazon region. The region is home to ten different indigenous nationalities and some of the world’s most pristine and biodiverse forest. Chinese state-owned oil company Andes Petroleum is hoping to operate in the rainforest homes of the Sápara and the Kichwa of Sarayaku.

The Fight For Justice For Ecuador’s Amazon Continues

April 21, 2015 Lindsay Ofrias, www.upsidedownworld.org Resist! Amazon, Ecuador, Environment, Oil & Gas

Amazonian residents cite various peer-reviewed health evaluations demonstrating significantly higher rates of cancer, miscarriages, birth defects, and skin diseases, among a multitude of other health problems for those living in the region as evidence of them being poisoned. Those studies show that the health problems are even more acute for those living nearby the 300 or so oil well sites of the former Texaco concession of which PetroEcuador also had a hand in. For local residents who have witnessed the growth of the Amazonian oil industry over the last half-century, they are confident of it being the arrival of Texaco that marks the gradual destruction of their once clean land and water resources. The fact that Texaco ominously renamed the burgeoning oil frontier town of its Amazonian heyday to Sour Lake (Lago Agrio in Spanish) as homage to its corporate birthplace in Texas has not helped to alter that widely held view.

Voices & Images From The People’s Summit In Panama

April 10, 2015 Resist! Cuba, Ecuador, Imperialism, indigenous, Panama, Summit of the Americas, United States, Venezuela

The Summit of the Americas, beginning Friday in Panama City, has incorporated parallel meetings. The Youth forum, the Academic forum, the Business forum and the Civil Society and Social Actors forum were organized after a process of selection by the Organization of American States, which also organizes the presidential summit. However, more than 2,000 social movements and progressive organizations have organized the People's Summit, an event that seeks to express backing for the policies advanced in the region in recent years, following the election of numerous left-wing governments. The social movements that will participate in the parallel summit include small farmers, indigenous groups, human rights activists, political movements, worker unions and environmentalist organizations. With such a diverse array of different issues the organizations agreed on an extensive agenda to discuss the most important problems which they believe will not be present in the official presidential event. “We are not an anti-(Americas) Summit. We are a summit that aims at giving voice to the popular movements that are not part of the Summit of the Americas. Our objective is to raise the issue of fighting poverty, for social equality and the sovereignty and right to self determination of the people. We are discussing things completely different to the Americas Summit agenda,” explained Dr. Fernando Cebamanos, organizer of the People's Summit and President of the Broad Front for Democracy party in Panama.

Swedish Prosecutor Rejects Questioning Assange In London

November 2, 2014 David Crouch, www.theguardian.com Educate! Ecuador, England, Julian Assange, Sweden

Backtacking from an earlier suggestion described by the Guardian below, the Swedish prosecutor has once again rejected questioning Assange in London. Telesur reports: "Sweden’s chief prosecutor Marianne Ny has ruled out questioning Julian Assange in London ahead of a court ruling in Sweden on whether to lift the warrant for his arrest, she stated on Wednesday. "This comes despite suggesting earlier this week that she was considering taking advantage of the offer made by Ecuador to facilitate the interview at its London embassy." An earlier report: Sweden’s chief prosecutor said on Tuesday she was seriously considering an invitation by the British government to question Julian Assange in London, before a court ruling in Sweden on whether to lift the warrant for his arrest. The Foreign Office said on Tuesday it would welcome a request by the Swedish prosecutor Marianne Ny to question Assange inside the Ecuadorian embassy and would be happy to facilitate such a move, which is seen by Assange’s lawyers as an important step towards breaking the deadlock surrounding the case.

Indigenous Communities Take Chevron To Court For ‘Crimes Against Humanity’

October 27, 2014 Sarah Lazare, www.commondreams.org Resist! Chevron, Ecuador, Indigenous Rights, Law

Chevron's repeated refusal to clean up its toxic contamination of Ecuador's Amazon rainforest constitutes an "attack" on civilian populations and should be investigated by the International Criminal Court in the Hague, impacted indigenous and farming communities charged this week in a formal complaint (pdf) to the global body. “In the context of international criminal law, the decisions made by Chevron’s CEO, John Watson, have deliberately maintained—and contributed to—the polluted environment in which the people of the Oriente region of Ecuador live and die every day,” states the complaint, which was submitted to the ICC's Chief Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda on Thursday on behalf of approximately 80 affected communities, totaling tens of thousands of people.

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