@PiaLaPeriodista always w/ the excellent reporting on tensions between urban development and conservation. As middle-class movements to prevent the consumption of the few, unpopulated green spaces in Guatemala City (GC) arise, questions about who green spaces are for remain...
¿Existen soluciones donde todas las partes ganan?
Todos los detalles en la nota completa👇
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The recent elections in Guatemala were an unprecedented win for anti-corruption efforts in postwar Guate but debts and promises made to Indigenous Authorities are still owed.
Honored to have helped facilitate this excellent interview series, pls check it out!
We recently partnered with @NISGUA_Guate to get an on-the-ground view of the Indigenous-led organizing behind the pro-democracy movement in Guatemala, featuring interviews with Indigenous leaders who participated in the national strike.
Projects like Cayalá spotlight a growing rich, white, & neoliberal movement to privatize urban and environmental space. In cities where private property rules urban development, little land is left for public institutions to design equitable and accessible public spaces.
Ya vieron la nota de Cayalá en el @nytimes? 👀
"Critics say it is largely a playground for the well-off, hard to reach by public transit, environmentally devastating and has attracted significant investment even as other parts of crime-ridden Guatemala City fall into decay."
Only 2 days away from Arévalo's pres. inauguration in Guatemala. We interviewed Indigenous leaders of the the #ParoNacionalIndefinido to hear their reflections on + beyond direct democracy during this extremely hostile election cycle. @NISGUA @NACLA nacla.org/people-willing-con…
Estamos a sólo 2 días de la toma de posesión del Pres. Arévalo en Guatemala. Entrevistamos a líderes indígenas del #ParoNacionalIndefinido para escuchar sus reflexiones sobre + más allá de la democracia directa durante este ciclo electoral sumamente hostil nacla.org/pueblo-dispuesto-s…
The levels of incompetence and racism in the U.S. justice system. #JusticeforVirgilioAguilar
Juez de Florida declara al guatemalteco Virgilio Aguilar “no competente” para ser juzgado por homicidio | Lea más aquí ⬇️ prensalibre.com/guatemala/mi…
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“The power that Indigenous authorities are currently exercising in the mountains, the plains, the roads or in some cities of Guatemala, only amplifies the tragic role that Giammattei and [others] have played, giving them a historical lesson that they will never forget…”
#GuateResiste ✊🏽 “Viva el rey, muera el mal gobierno” un texto que describe la capacidad de las autoridades indígenas de generar alianzas en este paro nacional.
✍🏽 Irmaalicia Veláquez Nimatuj
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“[Indigenous Ancestral Authorities] are now the legitimate interlocutors in any dialogue that may occur with the government around this crisis and that is something that marks a turning point in our history” spoke Pres-elect Arévalo on the tenth day of Guate’s national strike.
In 2015, it was the plaza—the centralized, formal, + “civil” space for demand and dialogue. In 2023, it’s campesino leadership, it’s mutual aid, it’s decentralized, local organization. It’s political rage + an awakening to many that democracy in Guate is owed to Indigenous power!
The public U in Guatemala is known for its inter-generational solidarity with working and racialized communities’ struggles and politics. These murals were institutional history and testimony to the ongoing fight against a corrupt and colonial state, erased overnight.
Compañeros de la Escuela de Ciencia Política, esto fue lo que hicieron con los murales de nuestra escuelita.
Si son nuevos y nunca pudieron verlos, aquí están, estaban en el edificio M5. ¡Quieren quitarnos nuestra memoria e identidad!
📷 @AfroTambu @SaharaMendezA
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My latest for NACLA on an united urban left, Guatemala's upcoming elections, water injustice, and environmental and infrastructural collapse, ft. @PiaLaPeriodista
GUATEMALA | Ninotchka Matute Rodríguez emerges as mayoral candidate to replace criminalized lawyer Juan Francisco Solórzano Foppa. Can Matute rupture the sleeping powers of municipal politics and the urban status quo in Guatemala City? @fordlemusmel
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Infrastructural & environmental collapse characteristic of GC can no longer be seen as separate from the criminalization of activists, journalists, and communities who fight injustice perpetrated by the corporate elite and gagged state actors. For @NACLA nacla.org/hydrocracy-center-…
El poder y el agua son grandes temas en estas elecciones municipales. ¿Cómo se interrelacionan y por qué es importante visualizarlos? Mis agradecimientos a @pialaperiodista. Para @NACLA.
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Anoche escuchando a Carlos Sandoval de Todos en el foro Joventudes Deciden, quien cuenta con una maestría y doctorado de la Universidad Andragogy. No reconocí a la universidad entonces me fui a buscarla. Será esta que no tiene acreditación del departamento de educación de EEUU?
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Student reviews of my recent course are rolling in & they’re so overwhelmingly positive! but the one that really got me was:
"Loved this class! During the class time my family would ask me to connect my computer to Bluetooth because they liked the material covered in class.” 🥹
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Just finished teaching our last class of "Latinx Metropolis: Arch and Urbanism across the Américas" for @UCLAccstudies. Cross-listed w/ urban plan and history depts, students brought their personal experiences and educational expertise to the table!
Highlights and student favs:
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“I realized that it does not make sense to think in terms of something that is the environment against which waste offends.”
True pleasure to talk with Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins about their work on waste ecologies and commons under the occupation of Palestine.
Melanie Ford Lemus (@antifordism @RiceAnthro) interviews Sophia Stamatopoulou-Robbins (@BardCollege) about her prize-winning book Waste Siege: The Life of Infrastructure in Palestine (Stanford University Press @stanfordpress, 2019).
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Excited to be a semifinalist for the 2022 Rappaport Panel Prize! I will expand on a glossary I’ve written that focuses on the de-standardization of land + nonscalability of marginalized experiences for urban conservation discourse in Guate. Congrats to all semifinalists!
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