Far-right in Latin America: authoritarian and subordinate?
On Wednesday, May 20, InfoCLACSO will be live on the YouTube channel and the Facebook and LinkedIn profiles.
-The column by Pablo Vommaro , Executive Director of CLACSO.
-Israel intercepts the Global Sumud Flotilla en route to Gaza
The 430 activists from the “Gaza flotilla,” comprised of some fifty boats, the last of which were intercepted on Tuesday, May 19, off the coast of Cyprus by the Israeli Navy, have been transferred to Israel on a prison ship. This report is by Lautaro Rivara , a sociologist and PhD in History, co-coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group “Imperialism, Neocolonialism and Policies of Intervention,” aboard the ship Sirius.
See also: “Breaking the Blockade: Humanitarian Action Against Israeli Genocidal Policy”
-Presentation of the book “ The vassal right. The invisible plot of Latin American power ”
Interviews with the author Esteban Torres from the National University of Córdoba/CONICET/Frankfurt Institute for Social Research, and Raúl Zaffaroni , former minister of the Supreme Court of Justice of the Argentine Republic.
-Water is worth more than gold
The Dominican Republic hosted the colloquium “Coloniality, Racism, and Sacrifice Zones in Advanced Racial Capitalism” in late April, addressing the extractive expansion of the Barrick Gold mining company. Meanwhile, communities are building forms of resistance ranging from water conservation to cultural creation. Testimonies from:
-Leoncia Ramos , General Secretary of the New Rebirth Committee of Cotuí, Dominican Republic.
-Federico Pita , Political Scientist from the University of Buenos Aires and Afro-Argentine activist, founder of the African Diaspora of Argentina (DIAFAR), co-coordinator of the CLACSO Working Group “Anti-racism and Afro-descendants in the Global South”.
From September 17 to 19, the XIV International Meeting of the International Network of Researchers and Participants on Educational Integration and Inclusion (RIIE) will be held in Pachuca de Soto, Hidalgo, Mexico, under the theme "The Inclusion That Affects Us All." It will be presented by: Zarelly Sibaja Trejos , Director of the Institute of Gender Studies at the State Distance University of Costa Rica and member of the CLACSO Steering Committee for Costa Rica; Minerva Nava Escamilla , Psychologist, National Pedagogical University-Hidalgo, Mexico; and José Luis Flores Flores , Professor, National Pedagogical University-Hidalgo, Mexico.
The program for Wednesday, May 20th, covers three of the axes of the Platforms for Social Dialogue that CLACSO is promoting for the coming years: “Democracies in dispute: horizons, resistances and construction of alternatives from the public and the common,” “Social movements and activism in Latin America and the Caribbean: resistances, articulations and construction of the common,” and “Just transitions and sovereignties in dispute: towards sustainable and inclusive futures from the Global South.”
She drives: Gustavo LemaDirector of Communication and Information at CLACSO
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Production: Eric Domergue and Noelia Croci
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Open to the addresses of the Executive Secretariat and the members of the Steering Committee of CLACSO to disseminate activities and topics specific to each country, this communication channel is also a space to analyze and deepen the Platforms for Social Dialogue (PDS) that CLACSO promotes for the coming years, to interview researchers, and for everything that makes up the life and production of the Latin American Council of Social Sciences.
