North America

North America’s Trilateral Summit

January 12, 2023 Teri Mattson, WTF is Going on in Latin America and the Caribbean. Podcast – WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean Canada, Joe Biden, Mexico, North America

The United States, Mexico and Canada on Tuesday, January 10 vowed to tighten economic ties, producing more goods regionally and boosting semiconductor output, even as integration is hampered by an ongoing dispute over Mexico's energy policies. U.S. President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met in Mexico City and pledged to beef up supply chains after weathering serious disruptions during the COVID-19 pandemic. "We're working to a future to strengthen our cooperation on supply chains and critical minerals so we can continue to accelerate in our efforts to build the technologies of tomorrow - right here in North America," Biden said in a joint news conference with his fellow leaders after their meeting.

Next Standing Rock: Fossil Fuel Battles Loom Across North America

December 9, 2016 Natasha Geiling, www.thinkprogress.org Resist! Fossil Fuels, North America, Pipelines, Standing Rock

By Natasha Geiling for Think Progress - When news broke Sunday that the Army Corps of Engineers would not grant a permit necessary for the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline to cross the Missouri River, the thousands of water protectors, environmental activists, and concerned citizens who spent months protesting the pipeline’s construction erupted in celebration. “They formed a circle — a human circle all the way around the camp — and people were holding hands and singing and praying,” Kandi Mossett, a leader with the Indigenous Environmental Network, said via a Facebook Live video following Sunday’s announcement.

How Montanans Stopped Largest New Coal Mine In N. America

March 26, 2016 Nick Engelfried, www.wagingnonviolence.org Strategize! Coal Mining, Montana, North America

By Nick Engelfried for Waging Nonviolence - Montana communities won a victory against one of the world’s biggest coal companies earlier this month, when Arch Coal abandoned the Otter Creek mine – the largest proposed new coal strip mine in North America. The story of how the project imploded is one of people power triumphing over a company once thought to be nearly invincible. To many observers, the Otter Creek project once seemed unstoppable. It certainly appeared that way in 2011, the year I moved to Missoula, Montana for graduate school.

Teachers, Unions, Students Build Trinational Movement

June 10, 2014 Roshan Bliss, www.PopularResistance.org Organize! Canada, Education, Mexico, North America, Student Activism

The significance of winning the struggle for education was summed up in the remarks that CNTE's Juan Melchor shared about the three goals that have guided the CNTE teachers' fight in Mexico: first, democratize the teachers' union. Second, democratize the schools. Third, democratize the country. If the teachers, students, and education activists of the Trinational Coalition In Defense of Public Education are successful, it would mean much more than better schools. It would mean more critical and engaged citizens. It would mean a blow to corporate imperialism and control. It would mean a more just society where education is seen as a human right and a public good, not as a private commodity or an economic market. With the 2016 Trinational Conference In Defense of Public Education tentatively slated to take place in Vancouver, the education activists of the Trinational Coalition have their work cut out for them. But they can count on a growing base of support as more and more people across the continent - and across the globe - start to realize the harm that corporate education reform is doing to our communities, our schools, and our future. So as the Mexican delegation's favored chant from the weekend says, "La lucha sigue, sigue!"

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