We women occupy a special space when we speak of struggles for land and territory and resistance against the extractivist economic model that has been promoted throughout the Mesoamerican region and many regions of the world. This extractivist economic model…
I am sweating. I am alone, sitting with a phone pressed to my ear, waiting. My heart is beating, I am trying to breathe but feel nauseous. I am dreading what might happen next. It could change everything. I am…
In July 2021, the City Council of Dumaguete (Negros Oriental, Philippines) approved a motion that would pave the way for the construction of a 174-hectare reclamation project. Various groups—scientists, environmentalists, fisherfolk, several youth and progressive groups—decried the railroading of the…
Indigenous women have made great strides in the formal recognition of their rights in recent decades, through advances in indigenous rights and in women’s rights. Most of the progress can be directly attributed to the consistent organizing and advocacy of…
In August of 2021, Nubia Casco realized she felt exhausted, spent. The Covid pandemic and strict lockdown measures by the Honduran government had compounded the usual challenges she faced as leader of the Network of Rural Women of Ojojona. To…
The Cambodian Alliance of Trade Unions (CATU), a union representing workers in the garment and footwear industries in Cambodia, has taken important steps to adopt a feminist approach to leadership. Since electing its first woman president Sophorn Yang in 2011,…
The women organized in the Our Bodies, Our Lives (OBOL) Movement in Mzimba South East, Khosolo in northern Malawi have long faced the challenges of precarious livelihoods and lack of access to basic needs. But when the COVID-19 pandemic and…
JASS is excited to announce that we have been awarded a one-time unrestricted gift by author and philanthropist, Mackenzie Scott. This substantive contribution comes at a crucial time in the world when philanthropy needs to be ambitious, imaginative, and expansive…
By Delmy Martínez The scene after the 2021 presidential election: There is an air of freedom, and hope for change. The feeling of bonding is everywhere--in the looks, in the smiles, in the dance of the leaves moving to the rhythm…
