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Stories of Resistance is a new podcast featuring vignettes pulled from journalist Michael Fox’s 20 years of interviews, research, and reporting from across the Americas. Co-produced by Global Exchange and The Real News Network , each week we’ll bring you stories that remind us of the struggles that have come before, and the ones we are living now. Inspiration for dark times.
A timely conversation uniting movements at borders to confront the “iron flow” of weapons from the United States that is fueling violence in communities around the world.
**PANELISTS:
John Lindsay-Poland, Stop US Arms to Mexico
Christina Delgado, National Coordinator of Organization, Community Justice
Ben Dooley, Reporter, ICIJ
Grace Fernández, Movement for Our Disappeared, Mexico
Sergio Aguayo, Professor, El Colegio de México
As U.S. military escalation, economic warfare, and media narratives converge, communities across Latin America are once again being forced to pay the price. This webinar brings together voices from the region to unpack what’s at stake, challenge dominant narratives, and discuss paths forward rooted in solidarity and resistance.
Panelists:
Alex Sierra (CESJUL, Colombia)
Ernesto Ledesma (Rompeviento.tv, Mexico)
Francesca Emanuele (CEPR)
Moderated by: Dayana Mosquera (Global Exchange)
Revisit a critical conversation hosted by CESPAD, the Honduras Solidarity Network, and Global Exchange discussing the intense pre-election crisis Honduras faced just a few months ago. You’ll hear from:
Gustavo Irías, Executive Director of the Center for Democracy Studies (CESPAD), a Global Exchange partner leading a 150-person national and international electoral observation mission. Gustavo will discuss the pre-electoral crisis and share CESPAD’s work documenting and clarifying what is happening on the ground.
Wendy Cruz, from the campesino organization Via Campesina, will share how she, as an organizer, understands the unfolding electoral crisis from a non-partisan, social-movement perspective.
Karen Spring, Honduras-based Coordinator of the Honduras Solidarity Network (HSN). Karen has lived and worked in Honduras for over 15 years. Karen will help translate the stakes of this pre-electoral crisis in Honduras for an international audience seeking to understand why what happens in Honduras matters for the entire region — and how it shapes relations with other countries, particularly the United States.
Moderated by Laura Carlsen, a U.S.–Mexico dual citizen, analyst, and journalist who directs the Mexico City–based think tank Mira Feminisms and Democracies. She specializes in gender, international relations, and Latin America, and brings decades of experience connecting grassroots movements with geopolitical analysis.
The United States–Mexico–Canada Agreement is the regional trade accord that replaced NAFTA in 2020 and shapes economic, labor, environmental, and investment rules across North America.
Meet Alex Sierra, a Colombian anthropologist and socio-legal researcher with more than two decades of experience analyzing the armed conflict in Columbia, and the role of justice and governance in Latin America. Alex stresses the intersectionality of global imperialism and calls for allyship with those in other countries as a way to accomplish global peace.
Meet Alí Bantú Ashanti, a Colombian lawyer and human rights defender, and strategist in high-impact litigation involving state crimes. Born in Timbiqui, Colombia, Alí founded Justicia Racial, an organization defending victims from state crimes and injustices. Alí underlines the importance to stand up against global fascism, the injustices that come from it, and the decay of democracy.
Meet Ernesto Ledesma, an investigative journalist and founder of Rompeviento TV, an independent digital platform, dedicated to human rights, journalism, democratic, accountability, and analysis of social movements in Mexico. Ernesto was involved in humanitarian aid flotilla operations for Palestine and Cuba, and speaks about his experiences with mutual aid and calls for solidarity and allyship to defend democracy and bring mutual aid to those vulnerable to atrocities.
Meet Lucía Vijil, a researcher and defender of Hondorian democracy, affiliated with the Center for the Study of Democracy (CESPAD). She discusses the 2009 Honduran Coup and how the extractive model of capitalism globally has negatively impacted the environment, community, and resources in Honduras since.
Meet Mynor Alonzo, a political analyst, strategist, and cofounder of FOCO, a Guatemalan social research organization. Mynor discusses his career as an activist and gives his perspective on the importance mobilizing communities with solidarity. Mynor emphasizes the need to organize in our communities and explains how we can do so effectively.
Meet Elena Gutiérrez, Global Exchange staff in Mexico and collaborator with the People’s Movement for Peace and Justice to advance community-based peacebuilding initiatives and strengthen international solidarity networks. Her work focuses on building cross-border alliances that connect local organizing efforts with broader advocacy platforms. She has accompanied dialogue processes, community organizing strategies, and coordination efforts among movements aimed at promoting nonviolence, accountability, and democratic participation. Her work links grassroots organizing with international solidarity frameworks, reinforcing the importance of collective action beyond national borders. Through this collaboration, she contributes to strengthening regional networks committed to human rights, social justice, and democratic resilience.