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Nicaragua Monitor
For the latest news about Nicaragua and the U.S. solidarity movement subscribe to the Nicaragua Monitor today!
The Nicaragua Monitor is published 10 times per year by the Nicaragua Network and includes the latest news about Nicaragua and the U.S. solidarity movement along with background information on economic and environmental issues, action alerts, and book reviews. You can't get this much information about Nicaragua anywhere else.
Individual subscriptions: $20 per year.
Committee Membership: $50 per year (receive 10 copies of the Monitor and
voting rights at Nicaragua Network national meetings).
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Nicaragua News Service
The Nicaragua News Service is a weekly report from our correspondent in Managua with up-to-date information summarized from the major Nicaraguan media outlets, with full citations.
Topics covered each week include:
- Nicaraguan politics, including what is going on in the National Assembly, within the Bolaños administration and in the FSLN and other political parties.
- Economic news, including reports on small farmers, debt negotiations, structural adjustment programs, and trade issues.
- Labor organizing news, including updates on the Free Trade Zones.
- Environmental news, including coverage of the "wet and dry canal" projects and the activities of Nicaragua's environmental organizations.
- Social movements, including those supporting women, human rights, indigenous peoples, neighborhood groups, etc.
Subscriptions by e-mail are $60 dollars per year, anywhere. For delivery by postal service, subscriptions are $80 in the U.S., $90 for Canada and Mexico, and $100 in other countries. Send your check and the e-mail or postal address you wish to use to Nicaragua Network/AGJ, 1247 "E" Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003, (202) 544-9355; e-mail: nicanet@afgj.org Make sure "News Service" appears in the subject line.
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Books
New! Living in the Land of Our Ancestors: Rama Indian and Creole Territory in Caribbean Nicaragua
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A new book by geographer Gerald 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. The book costs $25 per copy, including shipping. Fifty percent of profits from the book’s sale will be donated to the Rama Territorial Government to assist in their land demarcation efforts. To order: Contact the Nicaragua Network, by emailing Kathy@afgj.org or by calling 202-544-9355. Or send a check for $25 to Nicaragua Network, 1247 "E" Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003, with "Rama Book" in the memo line. More info |
Videos
New! The Nicaragua Network Presents:
“We Have Other Plans”: Communities Implement Alternative Development
A new film, with accompanying study guide, produced for the Nicaragua Network and the Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign.
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 are an uplifting example of how development can be achieved by alternative means. The projects portrayed include everything from thriving fair trade coffee cooperatives to neighborhood women’s support groups. The film puts the focus on how and why these projects are successful, and ultimately applicable in many other communities around the world. The study guide delves into the details on cooperative structures, water recycling and solar energy.
Hand in hand, the film and study guide offer information and inspiration to share among communities that are fighting unjust development policies. To facilitate this exchange, both the film and the study guide are offered in Spanish and English; we also hope to make them available in Portuguese and Haitian Creole.
Produced by Green Valley Media, 28 minutes, available in Spanish in VHS and DVD; available in English in DVD. The film and study guide are available together for $25. Make a gift of the Spanish version! For $50, you can get the video and study guide for yourself, and we'll also send a set to a community in Latin America (of your choice, if you so wish).
To purchase: Order online on our Subscription and Sales Page. Or contact the Nicaragua Network directly, at nicanet@afgj.org or by calling 202-544-9355. Or send a check for the indicated amount to Nicaragua Network, 1247 "E" Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003. (Specify exactly what you're ordering, including the language(s) desired.)
Our Land, Our Future
(A documentary by Ed Schehl and Katherine Knight)
This beautiful video reports on the Dry Canal megaproject and its potential impacts on the environment and on the way of life and land of the indigenous Rama people of the Atlantic Coast of Nicaragua.
Cost: $30 + $3.00 shipping
To order, make a check out to Nicaragua Network, indicate the number of copies you'd like to order, and mail to: Nicaragua Network, 1247 "E" Street, SE, Washington, DC 20003
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Deadly Embrace
"Deadly Embrace" describes the damaging constraints put on the
Nicaragua people by IMF policies over the last decade. Through personal stories,
background information, and other resources, the film details the fallacies
of the neo-liberal economic model as they have played out in the Nicaraguan
economy. "Deadly Embrace" provides one of the clearest and most
complete analyses of the havoc wrought in Nicaragua at the behest of the
IMF, backed by the United States. The inclusion of discussion topics and
organizing activities makes it ideal for educational purposes.
To Order: Contact Ash Eames at (603) 764-9948