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From 26 Oct – 4 Nov Marlen Sanchez and Erika Takeo from the Nicaraguan Rural Workers Association (ATC) will be visiting London, Bristol and Birmingham to participate in events and to meet up with UK organisations such as the UK Landworkers Alliance. Food sovereignty, agroecology, climate justice, gender equality, internationalism, and involving the next generation […]

Solidarity event organised by NSC and NSCAG Saturday 29 October, 2.30 – 4.30pm, in person only, Lift, 45 White Lion Street, London  N1 9PW Speakers: Francisco Dominguez, NSCAG Executive Committee Marlen Sanchez, Director of the Latin America Institute for Agroecology in Nicaragua, member of the international relations secretariat of the Rural Workers Association (ATC) and […]

From 26 October – 4 November Marlen Sanchez and Erika Takeo from the ATC will be doing a UK speaker tour co-ordinated by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign (NSC). Marlen is the director of the Latin America Institute for Agroecology (IALA) in Nicaragua and Erika is the co-ordinator of the solidarity network Friends of the ATC. […]

Based on the inspiration and pedagogy of the Brazilian educator Paolo Freire, the first Latin America Institute of Agroecology (IALA) was set up in Venezuela in 2006 with the backing of former President Hugo Chavez. Since then a continental network of agroecology schools has followed in Argentina, Paraguay, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Nicaragua and soon the […]

What have three member organisations of La Via Campesina in apparently very different countries with populations varying from 3.2million to 212 million got in common? This was the theme of a workshop organised by the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign at the El Sueno Existe Latin America festival in Machynlleth on 5-7 August. The climate crisis, COVID […]

Weekly classes on zoom starting Monday 12th September If you want to learn Spanish with a Latin American flavour, the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign is the place for you! Term dates: 12 Sep 2022  – 28 Nov  2022 We will be teaching : Beginners – NEW Beginners – CONTINUING Beginners Plus Cost for the term: £85 […]

Seventy per cent of Nicaragua’s workforce is employed in the social economy, a sector that not only generates 65% of GDP but has sustained the country through crises: the 2018 attempted coup, two major hurricanes in 2020 and the pandemic. In recognition of the importance of this sector, in 2012 the government set up the […]

‘Peasant feminism’ is a term that first emerged from the Women’s Assemblies of La Via Campesina (LVC) in 2013 with the drafting of a document entitled ‘Peasant and Popular Feminism.’ Peasant feminism distinguishes itself from what LVC sees as ‘urban feminism’ in that it is rooted in the rural environment and reflects  the particular situation […]

The future of healthy, sustainable agriculture is in the hands of young people and the way forward is through agroecology. Dionys Melgara, Rural Workers Association (ATC) The first Latin American Agroecological Institute (IALA) was set up in 2006 in Venezuela through an agreement between the international movement La Via Campesina (LVC) and then Venezuelan president […]

Under blazing sunshine over thirty teams took part with some coming from Cardiff and Birmingham. The Nicaraguan Embassy officials brought bottles of rum for the winning teams and chocolate for the referees! Money still coming in but so far £2,600 raised for solidarity projects in Puerto Morazan including this year’s children’s peace festival and the […]

At the end of April, the 10th pre-school funded by Bristol Friends of Morazan was inaugurated in the community of Luis Andino, an event  attended by the children, families, friends and special guests. The school takes the name of Jose Isidro Dominguez, a young man from the community who lost his life in the revolutionary […]

Dolores Esquivel is a founder member of the Gloria Quintanilla women’s co-operative. Winnie Narvaez interviewed her about the integration of young people into the co-op, community building as a bottom up concept, and preventing the drift of people from the countryside. Founded in the 1990s the co-op is in the community of Santa Julia, south […]