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liz solomon

Reuters AlertNet - Guatemala's indigenous groups campaign to legalise their radio stations - 0 views

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Activism Guatemala Media Government Human Rights

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  • liz solomon on 18 Nov 09
     
    Indigenous groups of Guatemala are making efforts to pass a bill which will create a wave band or community radio stations. For indigenous cultures, which makes up 80% of the Guatemala population, the radio is the only form of expression through their own language. Community radio stations are vital for indigenous groups because many indigenous women are illiterate and the prominent forms of media are only carried out in Spanish. A lack of communication between indigenous cultures could result in death. If this bill is passed, it will give indigenous groups the opportunity to contribute to Guatemalan society and will help them gain free speech.
liz solomon

RELIGION-LATIN AMERICA: Indigenous Peoples Divided by Faith - IPS ipsnews.net - 3 views

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Protestant Religion Faith Christianity Evangelical

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    • Jackie Moran
      Jackie Moran on 02 Oct 09
       
      This article relates to our course because it addresses the topic of religion in Latin America, and how there is now beginning to be a shift from the dominant religion of Roman Catholicism to other religions such as Evangelicalism and Protestantism. What's interesting is how these shifts of religion affect the people of Latin America, especially the indigenous peoples.
  • Jackie Moran on 02 Oct 09
     
    This article discusses how many indigenous peoples throughout Latin America are experiencing a loss of cultural tradition, along with conflict and violence because of religion. Of the 40 million indigenous people who live in Latin America today, the most prevalent religion is still Roman Catholicism; however, over the years, other religions have surfaced such as Protestantism and Evangelicalism. The emergence of different religions have changed the collective behavior of indigenous people, along with breaking away their traditional nature.
  • liz solomon on 05 Oct 09
     
    Throughout Latin America, indigenous communities are losing their sense of tradition, stemmed from large established religious denominations and lesser known groups. While some churches focus on social concerns, others focus on spiritual concerns, creating a division between communities and families. The "sects" have taken on the role of dividing the people and lowering them to interests of the dominant powers. Anthropologists and religious leaders blame the sects for employing indigenous peoples with money and advertising beliefs that go against their way of life.
Kat Dunn

Indigenous peoples in Guatemala - 0 views

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Guatemala Indigenous Peoples Economy Religion Government

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  • Kat Dunn on 18 Nov 09
     
    This article focuses on the various indigenous groups in Guatemala. Divided up into various sections, it talks about such peoples affect on the country's culture, economy, and religious views. It is important to read about these groups affect on the country because they make up a large number of the population and have been and will continue to be very important in the direction the country takes.
Sam Obstfeld

Preserving Traditional Music and Culture of Latin America - 0 views

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music tradition past indigenous origins

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  • Sam Obstfeld on 07 Sep 09
     
    Eco Del Sur was founded nine years ago with the idea to preserve the traditional music and culture from different countries in Latin America. In this way, the indigenous groups that have been integrated with the rest of society can still keep their past alive. The audience is taught about the origins of the music, so that they can know where it all came from.
Sophie Bergelson

Venezuela to Expel US Evangelical Group - 3 views

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Evangelical Venezuela Chrisianity Religion Cultural Change

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  • janegelb on 04 Oct 09
     
    Venezuela, under the rule of Hugo Chavez, expelled the U.S. Evangelical group "New Tribes Mission" in 2005. The group was active in indigenous communities in Latin America for over fifty years. The Venezuelan government believed that they were westernizing indigenous people by force, and blaming them of things, but disguising it as preaching the gospel.
  • Sophie Bergelson on 05 Oct 09
     
    In 2005, President Hugo Chavez accused New Tribes Mission, an Evangelical group from the US, of being "agents of imperialist penetration" and expelled them from Venezuela. The group had lived and worked in indigenous communities in Venezuela for many years, translating the Bible into indigenous languages to convert people. Their expulsion came soon after American televangelist Pat Robertson declared that the US government should have President Chavez assassinated.
Atsuyoshi Ishizumi

BBC NEWS | Americas | Lasting legacy of Brazil's Japanese - 0 views

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Brazil Sao Paulo Immigrant Culture shock Integration

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  • Atsuyoshi Ishizumi on 09 Sep 09
     
    This article talks about the Japanese immigrants of Brazil, first of whom arrived there more than a hundred years ago. Now, there are more people of Japanese descent in Brazil than anywhere in the world outside of Japan itself. It also talks about how immigrants at first have a culture shock and discusses the importance of integrating into the indigenous culture.
Jennifer Salazar

Indigenous community in Ecuador faces off - 1 views

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Violence Crime Cultural Change Urban

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  • Jennifer Salazar on 04 Oct 09
     
    This article highlights the tension between government policies and indigenous populations in Ecuador. Due to the abundance of natural resources in the area, many indigenous communities are facing cultural and political instability.
Morgan Foster

Guatemala: Agreement on identity and rights of indigenous peoples - 0 views

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Guatemala Identity Social Rights Economy Politics

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  • Morgan Foster on 17 Nov 09
     
    This article is provided by conciliation resourced. The creators of the laws found in this article discuss topics on the agreement on identity and rights of indigenous people. They include identity of indegenous people, struggle against discrimination, and cultural, civil, political, social and economic rights. It is interesting to see these laws and wonder how often they are followed (not very often at all).
Tvon Scott

Guatemala Online - 0 views

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Investment Tourism Business Land Economic Overview

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  • Tvon Scott on 18 Nov 09
     
    This site actually does not deliver news of any kind, but instead it is testimony to the struggles that the indigenous Guatemalans faced as a result of capital and investment into a country that is not one's own. This shows disregard to the people of Guatemala who originally used the land in peaceful and harmonious ways as a way of life in order to survive which provided many of them with a sense of culture. Here the country is being showcased as if it were a product or a good, which I guess to those not living there, it is.
Arabica Robusta

Healing in the Homeland - Haitian Vodou Tradition - 0 views

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haiti indigenous resistance power culture

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  • she emphasizes that to reclaim one’s culture and identity through the Vodou tradition is a liberation from colonial mentality and a way to bridge the cultural gap between bourgeois and the popular masses.
  • An awareness of the origins and the centrality of Vodou and Kreyol to Haitian identity formation, enables us to understand why both have been maligned and desecrated by Europeans from the beginning of the Transatlantic slave trade. The colonizers and plantation owners realized very quickly that Vodou Tradition was critical to freedom and from then until now, they have never ceased in attempts to destroy the essence of Haitian culture.
  • Anything can be a Poto Mitan; in my Lakou, a mango tree or palm tree. When you put your ear to the palm tree you can hear the energy so its our connection to nature, to the energy and with spirits and our respect for nature. Around the Poto Mitan even from the time of the Taínos, it is here that we sit, we discuss and make plans. Its a collaborative consensus thing. And that is why I say it is a place of decolonization because this is the place of our truth.
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  • MMA: I respected all their stories because they are all powerful. However, I admire a lot Grann Ayizan Velekete. [Standing Tall] She has moved to the world of the ancestors, I miss her, but she has done so much work and I identify with her in so many ways. It was a hard time, she had the whole society against her, she went to the countryside, to the Manbo’s house. Even today her family refuses to admit that she said these things but its all on tape, thats her voice. So Grann Ayizan to me was a fighter. SE: She was my favorite too. She had so much to fight against because she went against the grain of her social class and because she was a woman too. I wonder why she chose Grann Ayizan?
  • The Haitian elite do not like the word; they like to think they are French. Affranchi is not based on color, it is social status from pre-independence, someone of African descent who paid for his freedom. This is why in the book I did not use race as a variable because everyone is Black [Dessalines declared every Haitian to be Black].
  • y poetry is a reflection of the journey of my soul in particular time and space that brings magic to my life. It is often thought-provoking as it interrogates, shares, brings into perspective, writes back, questions, talkback, defends, speaks out, brings close, teaches, shows gratitude, understands, nurtures, remembers, dreams, honors, gives hope, cherishes and above all Heal and LOVE.
  • The DNA revealed that I am connected to the Yoruba people [this is the Kingdom Nago / the Oyo Kingdom, during the time and prior to slavery,] and the Hausa and Bamileke people from Cameroon which was South Kongo prior and during the slave trade. This knowledge is found in the Vodou songs.
  • I feel something and I write it, these are my healing processes. I do not think of myself so much as Haitian American or American or Haitian. I just feel that where I am is where I need to be in this world. So I write, I dance, I paint
Maria DiGioia

indigenous groups at odds over fatal protest in Ecuador - 0 views

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Cultural Change Crime Violence Men Faith

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  • Maria DiGioia on 05 Oct 09
     
    This article from CNN explains the clash between police and indigenous protestors who were blocking a highway in Macas. Three people were killed and ten were injured. The protest was for the new mining and water law that is being proposed since it will cut off some of the people water sources and, therefore, hurt their crops.
Iraimi Mercado

Forced out of Mexico's parks, street kids turn to prostitution | Worldfocus - 0 views

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zero tolerence policy social cleansing children indigenous cultures homeless children

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  • Iraimi Mercado on 16 Sep 09
     
    A Worldfocus contributing blogger writes that a zero tolerance policy intended to curb crime in Mexico has forced some street children into prostitution.
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