Registration Form Here Join us June 24-26 at Tatamagouche Centre for our annual gathering and meeting. This year, we are happy to announce that Franklin Valenzuela from Jodvid will join us. He will also take part in a Maritimes tour before the gathering. Sunday, June 19 at Conserver House in [...]
Calendar of Events Spring 2016 Join us in June when Franklin Valenzuela will be on a Maritimes tour talking about defending water and the environment through his youth activism. Read more here.
BTS is thrilled to announce that Crisanta Perez will be joining us for the BTS Annual Gathering at Tatamagouche Centre June 12-14. Please join us (register here)! Crisanta will also be speaking throughout the Maritimes. Agenda is below. If you have read or heard about Goldcorp's Marlin Mine, you know [...]
Jesus Tecu and Isabel Osorio. For more than 10 years, the Maritimes-Guatemala Breaking the Silence Solidarity Network has had a relationship with Jesus Tecu Osorio and Isabel Osorio de Tecu and their family, in particular through the International Youth Internship Program as the network placed close to [...]
FAIR TRADE IS MORE THAN A LABEL A community fundraiser to benefit the CCDA (Peasant Committee of the Highlands) in Guatemala. Leocadio Juracán, a founding member of the CCDA and long time activist for labour and agrarian rights, will speak about the importance of Fair Trade as a tool for [...]
Thanks to the amazing volunteers of BC CASA and Cafe Justicia, Leocadio will be traveling to meet some new and old friends in the BC Interior. Check out this amazing opportunity to hear about this long-term solidarity relationship between the West Coast and the CCDA! Read Leocadio's bio here. Check [...]
Watch this great documentary about the work of the CCDA! Read Leocadio Juracan's Bio Here. Leocadio is the National Coordinator of the Highland's Committee of Small Farmers, in Guatemala. June 8 - 15 in British Columbia (see full schedule here): Organized by Cafe Justicia/BC CASA and friends. Wednesday, June 10: [...]
Originally posted on the NB Media Coop Website. Written by Tracy Glynn on November 5, 2013 in Canada, Canada, Environment, Indigenous, New Brunswick - No comments Angelica Choc addresses law and sociology students at the University of New Brunswick law school on Nov. 1st, 2013. Photo by Tracy Glynn. [...]
First Published on the NB Media Coop Written by Asaf Rashid on October 31, 2013 Angelica Choc makes a stop on unceded Mi’kmaq territory on Highway 134 to show her support for the Mi’kmaq land defenders and their allies against shale gas on October 31, 2013. Photo by Tracy Glynn. [...]
Theme: Sister Maudila Lopez: A Mayan woman urges the United Church Pension Plan and other Pension Funds to divest from Goldcorp Bio Sister Maudilia Lopez has worked for 17 years in the Catholic Parish of San Miguel Ixtahuacan. She is a member of the Parish Sisters and Brothers of Mother [...]
