Hurricane
Felix Devastates Nicaragua’s Caribbean Coast: You
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September 6, 2007
Hurricane Felix continued its trajectory across northern
Nicaragua yesterday destroying houses, causing floods, landslides
and loss of crops in Wiwilí, Pantasma, Raití
and many other northern municipalities, some of which were
hit hard nine years ago by the devastation of Hurricane
Mitch. The Miskito indigenous communities located along
the Coco River were the hardest hit. In Raití, 120
families lost their houses and their health center as well.
Landslides were reported in the vicinities of Wiwilí
and Pantasma. Read more>>
Campaigns & Action Alerts
Time to tell Congress:"No
More CAFTAs"
Take the Pledge for Trade Justice!
The process of negotiating, ratifying,
and implementing so-called "free" trade agreements
like the DR-CAFTA is out of control, and the time has come
to say "enough is enough!" Congress and all elected
officials must demand a new approach and should be required
to make their positions on trade clear and unambiguous so
that people in the United States will know where they stand.
With the Pledge for Trade Justice, we are demanding that
our public officials start working toward a more just and
equitable system. And there is an alternative. Public officials
such as the representatives who have already signed the
Pledge are vowing to press this administration and future
ones for just agreements that support sustainable development
goals and equity for all.
NEW! Action Alert:
IMF Pressures Continue in Nicaragua!
Write the IMF and Daniel
Ortega!
In this action alert,
you will find:
1) Summary of IMF pressures on Nicaragua
2) Sample letters to President Daniel Ortega and IMF head
Rodrigo de Rato
3) Statement on IMF and Nicaragua from Jubilee South
Click here
to learn more about the Nicaragua Network's action alerts
and campaigns!
Give
Gifts that Keep Giving!
Give a gift of trees or
of a cistern to capture rainwater in the rural north of Nicaragua!
From the Nicaragua Network
“Let the Rivers Run”
A comprehensive plan for the intelligent management of
water and the re-greening of Nicaragua’s watersheds
In Nicaragua as in
the rest of the world, rivers are dying from the deforestation
of their banks, water-tables are falling from overuse, lakes are
being contaminated by chemicals, and forests torn down. The Federation
for the Integral Development of Peasant Farmers (FEDICAMP) has
developed “Let the Rivers Run,” a comprehensive plan
for the intelligent management of water and the re-greening of
Nicaragua’s watersheds.
You can help through your giving! Click
here for more information.
We Have Other Plans: Communities
Implement Alternative Development
A new film produced for Nicaragua
Network, with accompanying study guide
This film explores current projects
in Nicaragua that put true development in the community's hands.
Effectively saying "We have other plans" to the Washington
Consensus and its imposed neoliberal model, the communities
in the film provide uplifting examples of development by alternative
means.
The film puts the focus on how and why these
projects are successful, and ultimately applicable in many other
communities around the world. Read
more.
Living in the Land of Our Ancestors:
Rama Indian and Creole Territory in Caribbean Nicaragua
A new book by geographer Gerald ("Jerry")
Mueller Riverstone, available from Nicaragua
Network, about indigenous land rights struggles in Caribbean Nicaragua.
The Rama Indians and Afrocaribbean Creoles
inhabit southeastern Nicaragua's Caribbean coast and islands, and
one of the largest intact rainforests remaining in all of Central
America. Despite the region's designation as an International Biosphere
Reserve, it is currently being affected by colonization and deforestation
along Nicaragua's advancing agricultural frontier, and is further
threatened by tourism development and proposed oil pipeline, railway,
and road-building projects. Read
More
Appeal to
Nicanet supporters
We ask for your generous support
to allow our own important work to continue. And please
consider a monthly or quarterly pledge, which will contribute
toward our financial stability.
About the Nicaragua Network: Over 26 Years of Solidarity with the People of
Nicaragua
The Nicaragua Network has been organizing in solidarity
with the people of Nicaragua for over 26 years. In February of 1979, the Network was founded
to support the popular struggle to overthrow the 45 year US-supported Somoza
family dictatorship, and after the July 19 victory, to support the efforts
of the Sandinista Revolution to provide a better life for the nation's people.
Thus, for over a quarter of a century, the Network has been a leading organization
in the United States committed to social and economic justice for Nicaragua,
Latin America and the world, based on respect for sovereignty and self-determination.
The Network advocates for sound U.S. foreign policies that respect human
rights and international law. The Nicaragua Network provides information
and organizing tools to a network of 200 solidarity, sister city, and peace
and justice committees across the U.S.
Publications include the Nicaragua Network Hotline, the Nicaragua News Service,
the Nicaragua Monitor, and occasional monographs. The Network organizes speaking
tours of Nicaraguans in the U.S. and study tours and brigades to Nicaragua.
Some important current campaigns are: confronting water privatization, debt
cancellation for Nicaragua and other poor countries, and radical change of
IMF/World Bank measures. We also have campaigns in support of unemployed
coffee workers, banana workers, labor organizing in the Free Trade Zones,
indigenous rights, and the efforts of Nicaraguan environmental organizations.
The Nicaragua Network is compiling remembrances of people whose lives
were changed by their visits to and involvement in the Sandinista experiment.
Read more.
