Latin American Youth join their voices for identity, climate and territory in Gunayala, Panama

Written by: Ana Alvarado, AMPB Guanayala, Panama | Just months before the PreCOP will take place in Costa Rica, Latin American youth unifies their fight to make their voices heard. To do so, 45 young leaders from indigenous peoples and forest communities attended the “Latin American Youth Meeting: Identity, Climate and Territory” in Gunayala, Panamá, …

Field workshop and Territorial Mesoamerican Women Pre-Congress

By Nicoletta Marinelli «We are river, we are blood,we are the voice that cultivates life «. Indigenous and forest women from 8 different nationalities from Meso and South America arrived on November 19th in Panama City for the first meeting of Territorial Mesoamerican women leaders. All around the world 2018 has been a key year …

Guardians of the Forests wave ties in Yurok territory, in California.

Indigenous leaders and forest communities of Mesoamerica, the Amazon and Indonesia, join efforts and strategies in the fight against climate change. Starting on September 3rd, delegations of the Guardians of the Forests global alliance traveled to California to attend a cultural exchange with the Yurok Ancestral People and learn about their successful model of territorial …

Amazonian summit in Lima, Peru

Weaving Ties participated in the third Amazon summit organized by COICA in October 2016. This summit actually had different activities: The training workshop for COICA’s communicators  took place from Tuesday 26 to October 27, with the intervention of PURPOSE training them in the use of social networks (especially Twitter) as tools of advocacy. Weaving Ties …

Training on the use of social media in Managua, Nicaragua

AMPB organized in September 2016 training for communicators of its grassroots organizations, as well as COICA communicators in the use of social networks, taking advantage of the expertise of PURPOSE in the subject. Weaving Ties participated in this event, not only through the presence of Michel Laforge, but also funding the assistance of two COICA …