An Array of Utopian Flowers
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The Literary Labyrinth of Stephen T. Vessels
Posted on November 27, 2022 | No Comments - Indigenous Voices from the Northeast: Past, Present and Future
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WilderUtopia in 102 Languages
‘Medicine Walk’ Featured in SBLitJo
Santa Barbara Literary Journal released ‘Bellatrix: Volume 3’ in June 2019, which among adventurous fiction, poetry, essays, and lyrics, features an excerpt of Jack Eidt’s psychic-animism fiction, Medicine Walk. Buy the book!
Honduras Archive
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Historic Political Transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti
Posted on September 26, 2022 | No CommentsWe air news review excerpts covering historic political transitions in Honduras, Colombia, and Haiti with members of the No Alibi Collective from UCSB. Hosted by Elizabeth Robinson, commentators are Jack Eidt, Santa Barbara Professors Gerard Pigeon and Katia McClain, and Hector Javkin. -
Dictatorship in Honduras: US Reinvigorates “Banana Republic” Status
Posted on December 24, 2017 | No CommentsThe November 2017 election-fraud, dictatorship-today, U.S.- and Canada-supported, crisis in Honduras has considerable historic precedence, elucidated by anthropologist Rosemary Joyce. Not a pretty scenario, with no easy solution to preventing Honduras from repeating past horrors and falling into a lasting period of military dictatorship that brutalizes people and ecosystems. -
“Little Canada” Honduras Neocolonists Denounce Garifuna Defenders
Posted on October 4, 2017 | 5 CommentsCanadians facilitate illegal land sales of ancestral land in Caribbean Honduras, and members of the Honduran Black Fraternal Organization (OFRANEH) denounced for defamation by tourism investors Patrick Daniel Forseth (Carivida Villas) and Randy Jorgensen (Life Vision Developments) -- see any issues of neocolonialism here? -
Inequality and Injustice – The Garifuna Struggle in Honduras
Posted on January 9, 2017 | 4 CommentsInternational tourism and state-sponsored repression threaten the Garifuna culture and people in Caribbean Honduras. Did you consider how 5-star hotels and cruise ship terminals came to take over Indigenous land? They stole it... -
In Honduras, U.S. Guilty of Financing Dictatorship
Posted on October 26, 2016 | 2 CommentsDespite press releases that say the State Department has harsh words regarding Congress’s decision to approve more than $50 million in aid for Honduras, they certified the corrupt government with an abysmal human rights record. They are all clearly guilty of aiding and abetting the murderous regime of Juan Orlando Hernandez. -
Garífuna People Face Tourism Repression in Honduras
Posted on September 19, 2016 | 2 CommentsThe coup-backed neo-liberal government of Honduras, pushing tourism and expatriate resort developments, continues to repress and evict Garífuna communities along the Caribbean Coast. The Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (OFRANEH) reports, with multiple personal statement videos. -
Berta Cáceres: Rebel Guardian of the Rivers, ¡Presente!
Posted on March 12, 2016 | 1 CommentBerta Cáceres was assassinated by Honduran government-backed death squads on March 3. She fought for indigenous peoples’ power and for control over their own territories. She was not destined to die of old age. She spoke too much truth to power. -
Drug Trafficking in Honduras: Corruption a Multinational Affair
Posted on October 10, 2015 | 3 CommentsIn the nightmare of corruption, murder and impunity that is post coup d'état Honduras, many political and economic sectors of the "international community," foremost the U.S. and Canada, maintain beneficial relations with drug trafficking and related enterprises. Rights Action ?shares Karen Spring's dissection of a recent U.S. money laundering bust in Miami of the Rosenthals, one of Honduras' elite families. -
Sorry, Democrats, Hillary Clinton is Not a Progressive
Posted on May 2, 2015 | 7 CommentsWhat kind of President would Hillary Clinton be? According to her record, she has consistently favored big business, multinational billionaires and the national security state, at the expense of the "everyday Americans" she claims to "champion." Not in the least progressive. -
Obama Must Stop Funding Honduras’ Corrupt President
Posted on March 12, 2015 | 2 CommentsDana Frank writes on why the U.S. must stop funneling money to Honduras for repressive militarization and "free trade" projects that sacrifice labor and environmental standards in favor of multinational corporate hegemony. He must start treating its president like the corrupt ruler he really is. -
Lost White City “Discovered” in Honduran Jungle?
Posted on March 11, 2015 | 6 CommentsIn search for legendary “City of the Monkey God,” explorers ignore indigenous residents and archaeologists who have worked in the region for years, and shamefully claim to find the "untouched ruins" of a "vanished" culture found in the remote Moskitia region eastern Honduras. -
Free Trade Cities in Honduras: A Dangerous Experiment
Posted on February 2, 2015 | 3 CommentsThe tiny forgotten Pacific port town of Amapala, among volcanic island sands and stifling heat, is proposed as the site of a radical libertarian experiment: an autonomous free trade city, a haven for multi-national corporations. And the locals are not celebrating. -
Drilling in the Caribbean: Honduran Indigenous Communities Speak Out
Posted on November 25, 2014 | 3 CommentsIn 2013, the Honduran government granted BG Group oil and gas exploration rights in a 35,000 square kilometer block off the Caribbean Coast of the Moskitia. Miskitu and Garifuna community leaders, in the absence of organized support from environmental NGOs and scientists, are speaking out to defend their territories from oil and gas activity. -
Garifuna Culture in Honduras: Dancing in a Changing World
Posted on May 22, 2014 | 5 CommentsHonduras’ Garífuna people, with their rich culture and homeland spread across the Caribbean Coast of Central America recently asked an international court in Costa Rica to help them recover ancestral land, which they say has been lost to development. We present the dark and the light of this vibrant way, threatened by neoliberal development schemes, palm oil plantations, mega-tourism, and drug trafficking. -
Honduras: Narcotrafficking Leads to Native Dispossession, Deforestation
Posted on February 7, 2014 | 4 CommentsIn the isolated region of La Mosquitia, Honduras, narco-traffickers act as shock troops in the assault on native Miskitu, Tawahka, and Pech homelands, ruthlessly dispossessing residents and rapaciously converting forest commons to private pasture primed for sale to multinational corporations. -
Honduras: Mega-Tourism and Garifuna Communities Collide
Posted on December 29, 2013 | 13 CommentsCanadian "Porn King" Randy Jorgensen's mega-tourism "development" projects are stirring conflict and destroying Afro-Caribbean Garífuna communities in Trujillo on the north coast of Honduras. -
Blessing for La Moskitia, A Culture and Land in Transition
Posted on November 23, 2013 | 3 CommentsHistorically a roadless fishing port with little development nor electricity, Puerto Lempira has transformed into a boom-town, host to drug traffickers, nearby military bases, and oil and gas development. In an effort to overcome this adversity, we participated in a blessing for the people and their land and culture in transition, directed by a local Miskitu sukya, or healer, and members of the community. -
Miskitu Portrait: Lobster and Life on Laguna Caratasca
Posted on November 16, 2013 | 7 CommentsPuerto Lempira lies on the shore of the sweetwater Laguna Caratasca, just west of the Caribbean in La Moskitia, Honduras. The largest Miskitu town in the region, with an ailing lobster industry in an atmosphere of post-coup insecurity and governmental corruption, many turn to drug trafficking for income. -
Honduran Election: Neoliberal Militarization Versus The People
Posted on November 12, 2013 | 6 CommentsMilitary and judicial violence against the public and in post-coup Honduras leading up to the coming November elections are central components of the neoliberal economic takeover. In order to legitimate and secure the economic violence effected against Honduran citizens by multinational corporations, the judiciary criminalizes opposition to them while the military (along with other state security forces) goes after citizen-“criminals” with an iron fist. -
Miskitu Coast of Honduras: Harvesting Jellyfish at the Rio Kruta
Posted on November 2, 2013 | 3 CommentsOn a recent trip to the Kruta River near Cape Gracias a Dios on the Honduran Caribbean and the Nicaraguan Border, life without roads and little electricity proceeds slowly, detached from the world at large. Yet, drug trafficking is changing the economy and the culture of the Miskitu People, and due to overfishing, local people can only turn to harvesting jellyfish for China as an honest source of revenue. -
Miskitu Coast of Honduras: Village Life in Tide-Flooded Kruta
Posted on November 2, 2013 | 2 CommentsOn a 2013 trip to the Kruta River near Cape Gracias a Dios on the Honduran Caribbean and the Nicaraguan Border, life without roads and little electricity proceeds slowly, detached from the world at large. As sea levels rise, already economically-marginalized coastal villages in the mangrove swamps are slowly being inundated by the rising tides. -
Honduras: Miskitu Facing Dams and Deforestation Granted Land Rights
Posted on September 13, 2013 | 1 CommentHonduras grants Miskitu People title to huge swath of coastal, border lands they occupy, but massive dams under construction on the Patuca River and pilfering of the Río Plátano Biosphere Reserve continue unabated in a region undergoing massive militarization. -
“Sustainable” Palm Oil Conference Condones Honduran Land Conflicts
Posted on August 7, 2013 | 2 CommentsInternational environmental and human rights campaigners condemn the 4th Latin American Palm Oil Conference to be held by the Round Table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) in Honduras on 6th-8th August. The site of deadly conflicts over land rights with alarming impacts to ecosystems and communities, sustainably produced palm oil in this Central American country is impossible. The World Wildlife Fund among other sponsors, are charged with greenwashing and condoning human rights abuses. -
Honduras: Neoliberal Utopias Advance on Indigenous Land
Posted on February 23, 2013 | 2 CommentsThe government of Honduras plans the creation of neoliberal free-market enclaves, unaccountable to national laws and governed by foreign corporate interests. Stipulated for territory inhabited by Garifuna people and campesino farming communities, with propaganda about democracy, economic innovation and humanitarian justice, "President" Pepe Lobo should first refrain from presiding over the coup-backed "illegitimate regime." -
Maya Ruins at Tikal: A New Beginning at Winter Solstice
Posted on December 21, 2012 | 8 CommentsTwenty five hundred years ago, a group of peoples settled Tikal, surrounded by the lowland rainforests of the Petén Basin of northern Guatemala. Their descendants would create a remarkable civilization that populated cities and villages across much of southern Mexico, Belize and Guatemala. Today, it has returned to the forest but turned into a major archeological attraction.
