Ashli Blow, Next City. (2023-09-25). They Halted A Pipeline; Now Can They Get Clean Drinking Water? popularresistance.org In 2019, energy companies announced a plan to route a major crude oil pipeline through Boxtown and other mostly Black communities in southwest Memphis. The location had been chosen, a company representative stated then, because it was the "point of least resistance." | But residents came together, proving the company wrong. In 2021, a powerful grassroots movement shut down the pipeline, which would have been built through a historic neighborhood founded by emancipated people and atop the world-famous Memphis Sand Aquifer. | Now, two years later, the same activists are working to get reliable, safe drinking water…

ecsorinoco (2023-09-25). Venezuela Condemns US Intervention in Essequibo at UN. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Foreign Minister Yván Gil warned this Saturday that the United States Southern Command is trying to create a military base in the Essequibo territory, which is being claimed in order to consolidate "the plundering of our energy resources." This was stated during the plenary of the 78th session of the UN General Assembly, where he highlighted that the government of the United States "has once again intervened in a territorial dispute that has been ongoing for more than 200 years over our territory of the Essequibo Guyana." | He said that through ExxonMobil, "the government of the United States of Americ…

Staff (2023-09-24). Venezuela's Interior Minister: Criminal Gang Tren de Aragua Dismantled (+Niño Guerrero). orinocotribune.com The infamous organized criminal gang known as the Tren de Aragua has been totally dismantled as a result of the Gran Cacique Guaicaipuro Liberation Operation carried out by the Venezuelan security forces at the Tocorón Penitentiary Center in Aragua State, Venezuelan Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos announced. | "We have been able to definitively dismantle a criminal organization that committed crimes of all kinds, heinous crimes such as kidnapping, drug trafficking, human trafficking, homicide, contract killings, extortion, and impacted the lives of the people in the heart of the Venezuelan plains," Minister Ce…

scorinoco (2023-09-24). Venezuela's Vice President Calls Out OAS Chief's Interventionist Comments on Essequibo Referendum. orinocotribune.com Venezuelan Vice President Delcy Rodríguez called out the secretary general of the Organization of American States (OAS), Luis Almagro, for his interventionist comments on the Essequibo region. The region is disputed between Venezuela and Guyana. | "Venezuela has always defeated you and will continue to do so," Vice President Rodríguez wrote in a post on X (formerly Twitter) on Saturday, September 23, referring to Almagro. "You are a shameful stain for our region. You have participated in coups d'état, economic wars, and corruption. You are the godfather of regional extremism and the perverse mind of lawfare. Vene…

scorinoco (2023-09-24). It's Cuba or Daniel Blake. orinocotribune.com By Ana Hurtado — Sep 20, 2023 | The world is in turmoil. As the Western powers and their economic policies continue to tear apart the world, the countries of the South have united to demand justice. | This is a long story, one that continues and has been there on a planet where human beings have gone straight into an invisible plane. Since the emergence of capitalism, we have witnessed the progressive destruction of people, their cultures, communities, their environment and their freedoms by oppressive forces that increasingly abuse all people. | Is this what we human beings are destined for? | In 2016, the…