In this section Real World Radio aims to expose the murders of social activists and the cases of death threats against leaders. We will report on the wave of criminalization of the social protest. This new section of Real World Radio is also a memorial page for all those who were murdered in their struggle for a socially just world.
20 July 2011 | News | Social activists at risk
Forty miles off the coast of Gaza, the Israeli navy intercepted the only ship of the Second Freedom Flotilla that had managed to leave Greece, despite the government's prohibition. Read more
14 July 2011 | News | Social activists at risk
Nearly ten families of the Keköldi community of the Talamanca indigenous territory, Costa Rica, were violently evicted from their homes on July 1st by riot police and officers of the judiciary. Read more
14 July 2011 | News | Social activists at risk
Real World Radio interviewed Domingo Hernandez, leader of the Maya Waqib’ Kej National Coordination about the surge of violence in Guatemala. Read more
7 July 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
Honduran journalist and TV producer Adan Benitez was murdered on Monday, in La Ceiba, Atlantida department. 13 communication media workers have been murdered since 2010, in a country led by a regime that followed the Dictatorship that began in June, 2009. Read more
6 July 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
The General Bureau of Criminal Investigation of Honduras arrested professor Carlos Danilo Amador, secretary of the Environmental Committee of Valle de Siria, department of San Francisco Morazan. The leader is a public opposer of the activity of the mining area of Entremares, a subsidiary of Canadian transnational corporation Goldcorp. Read more
4 July 2011 | Interviews | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
On June 28, two years after the coup d'état in Honduras, the Costa Rican Human Rights Association (CODEHU) presented the documentary entitled “Quien dijo miedo?” (“Who said fear?”) that provides a perspective from the Honduran resistance of the many human rights violations in the country during the dictatorship and the peaceful protest to that process by broad sectors of the population. Read more
29 June 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
The Coup regime in Honduras is consistent: it repressed the people in order to take power in June 28th, 2009; it kept these human rights violations during the following 24 months and ratified this repression yesterday by attacking demonstrators with tear gases on the second anniversary of the Coup. Read more
23 June 2011 | News | Free Honduras | Social activists at risk
Several Honduran social groups are organizing a Continental Day of Solidarity with Honduras that will be held from June 26-28, a day that marks two years after the Coup d´etat that took place in the country. The organizations demand the coup perpetrators to be tried and punished, and an end to the criminalization of social struggles. Read more
20 June 2011 | Special reports | Summit of Indigenous People Abya Yala | Social activists at risk
A verification mission about the effects of mining on Food Sovereignty and the criminalization of social protests visited cantons near Cuenca, Ecuador, where the Continental Meeting of Abya Yala Peoples in defense of Water and Pachamama will start on June 21st. Read more
8 June 2011 | News | Social activists at risk
Social organizations linked with the struggle for land in Brazil have said once again that the State of Para -in the north of the country- is de facto ruled by large land owners and paramilitary groups hired by them. That perception of “no man's land” is based on statistics. Read more
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