If you weren’t able to join us for When Empire Attacks — A Hemispheric Response, the recording is now available. We urge you to watch it.
“The struggle is regional. National frameworks are no longer sufficient, either to understand the challenges we face or to find solutions.”
— Alberto Solís Castro, Global Exchange
The United States is escalating its campaign of economic coercion, political interference, and militarization across the Americas, and communities from Venezuela to Canada are bearing the consequences. Sovereignty is under assault. Democratic institutions are being undermined. And the far right, emboldened and increasingly coordinated, is advancing on multiple fronts at once.
This is not a moment for national solutions. It demands a hemispheric response.
In this urgent conversation, organizers and advocates doing the frontline work across the region came together to share what they’re seeing and what it will take to fight back. Watch the full recording here.
Featuring:
- Alberto Solís Castro — Global Exchange (Mexico)
- Mynor Alonso — FOCO (Guatemala)
- Alex Sierra — CESJUL (Colombia)
- Caren Weisbart — Common Frontiers (Canada)
- Dayana Mosquera — Global Exchange (Colombia)
As Alex Sierra made clear, Indigenous peoples, Afro-descendant communities, and other historically marginalized groups are absorbing the worst of U.S. imperial policy, and they are also leading the most powerful resistance to it. That is not a contradiction. It is the history of every liberation movement.
“The problems we share are many, and the solutions we build must be shared as well.”