The Day of the Forest Defender is January 18, marking the third anniversary of the date that the Venezuelan environmental activist Manuel “Tortuguita” Paez Terán was murdered by Georgia State Police during a raid on their encampment that had been setup in defense of the Atlanta forest as part of the Stop Cop City movement.…
The United States’ recent escalation of aggression towards Cuba and Venezuela is just the newest attempt by the capitalist-imperialists to dominate Abya Yala (the area known as Latin America and the Caribbean as referred to by some Indigenous revolutionaries), which has been a battleground since the earliest days of colonial conquest. Cuba and Venezuela’s struggles…