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> Guatemala has the most unequal land distribution in the Western Hemisphere, with large landholders who comprise only 2% of the population possessing 70% of the productive lands. > Attacks against human rights defenders in Guatemala increased between 2004 and 2005. In 2005, El Movimiento Nacional por los Derechos Humanos documented 224 attacks against human rights defenders, in comparison with 122 attacks in 2004. > On March 30, 2006, the 11th anniversary of the signing of the indigenous accord, tens of thousands of workers, farmers and indigenous people marched in Guatemala City to demand the strengthening of indigenous rights, restriction of open pit mining licenses, and funds for the Ministry of Agriculture to purchase land for redistribution. |
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Participate in the NISGUA Speakers Tour
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NISGUA SPEAKING TOURS
Each year NISGUA hosts Guatemalan activists who travel throughout the U.S. speaking to church, solidarity, law, women's, university and an array of other groups about grassroots work and the general situation in Guatemala. They discuss their work for democracy, human rights and socioeconomic justice, a task that in recent years has become much more dangerous.
The tours function to raise money for Guatemalan grassroots groups, to educate the U.S. public about Guatemala and to reach out to new groups and involve them in the Guatemalan solidarity movement. We invite you to become a part of this project. Why participate? Consider the benefits:
- Get the most up-to-date information on cutting edge issues in Guatemala.
- Help magnify the voices of Guatemalan partners on subjects that matter most to them.
- Establish direct, long lasting ties to Guatemalan social justice organizations.
- Provide needed financial support to Guatemalan
organizations working on the most sensitive, important issues in
Guatemala today – impunity, anti-corporate globalization, land
and labor conflicts, etc.
- Take advantage of the speaker’s visit to meet with
local and national government representatives and update them on the
situation in Guatemala.
- Educate the broader U.S. public through local, regional, and national media work.
- Rejuvenate local activists. Get them involved in NISGUA’s national campaigns on Guatemala.
- Use the tour to challenge your organization’s
capacity and skills. Do something your organization has never done
before – organize a different type of public event, reach out to
the media, meet with your Congressional representatives, organize a
city council resolution, carry out a direct action. And rely on
NISGUA’s national office for help and advice in carrying out any
activity new to your group.
- Strengthen NISGUA’s national network of activist communities.
- Use the tour to help set your group’s organizing agenda for the following year.
- Help cultivate leadership skills in those Guatemalans
participating in the tour, especially Guatemala women who have often
not had much, if any, opportunity to develop these important abilities.
- Help Guatemalan partners strengthen their work by meeting with potential institutional funders.
To learn more about the 2008 Spring Tours, click here.
You can also check out some of our past tours:
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