Lori Hanson has worked alongside of social movements in Latin America – particularly anti-mining and rural women’s movements in Nicaragua – for 35 years. She is a professor in the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at the University of Saskatchewan.
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Online-onlyThe students of Nicaragua’s April uprising
Autoconvocados – self-organized student protesters – are mobilizing against the repressive Ortega government. But their movement threatens to fall into the hands of nationalists and pro-capitalists.
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MagazineMiners, activists, and struggle in Halkidiki
Messages from a community in northern Greece fighting a Canadian mining giant.
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MagazineOf Miners and Land Defenders
When the Canadian mining corporation B2Gold set up shop in a small Nicaraguan town with the government’s blessing, a local group of land defenders began to organize.
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MagazineDaniel Ortega and the Interoceanic Grand Canal
A planned megaproject that would dwarf the Panama Canal and split Nicaragua in two reveals much about both the Ortega regime and global capitalism today.
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Online-onlyHarper and Modi, the Nuclear Prime Ministers
Canada’s nuclear deal with India is a disgrace.
