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Confronting global inequality through magical realism

Dec 4, 2024 | greenleft.org.au | Tamara Pearson

The Eyes of the EarthBy Tamara PearsonTehom Center Publishing, 2024Australian-Mexican journalist and author Tamara Pearson’s new novel, The Eyes of the Earth, is exactly what we need at the moment — a poetic story based on Latino magical realism, with tragedy and a victory. The unlikely hero is an elderly, impoverished, uneducated woman of colour, who has spent most of her life in Honduras. Her name is Clementina, but she is known by her nickname La Tortuga, the tortoise.
Farmers in Mexico Don’t Trust New President to Defend Their Water From Hoarding

Sep 30, 2024 | truthout.org | Tamara Pearson

“Don’t buy pork” imported from Mexico, implores Renato Romero, a Mexican farmer who is leading a resistance effort against the transnational company Smithfield Foods, which is headquartered in Virginia but runs hog farms and processing plants in Mexico. In June, state security forces in Mexico killed two members of a farmer-led movement resisting the giant pork producer, which has left local farmers without water and contaminated the land.
Land Defenders Shut Down a Toxic Mine. Now Its Corporate Backers Want Damages.

Jul 20, 2024 | truthout.org | Tamara Pearson

Puebla, Mexico — Canadian gold mining company Almaden Minerals has announced that it will seek arbitration against Mexico, demanding damages of at least $200 million for “financial losses” after its mining concessions in the mountains of Puebla State were canceled. But, having lied and asserted there were no Indigenous communities in the area, the company had its concessions canceled by the Mexican Supreme Court due to the legally required Indigenous consultation process not having occurred.
Will Mexico’s Elections Make a Difference?

May 30, 2024 | thenation.com | Tamara Pearson

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Corrupt Real Estate Firms Are Displacing Indigenous Mexicans in New Colonialism

May 13, 2024 | truthout.org | Tamara Pearson

Like a 68-story glass-clad monument to imperialism, the Mítikah tower is now the tallest building in Mexico City. Operating since 2022, it was designed and built by U.S. and Mexican real estate and architecture companies, including Fibra Uno, Parks Hospitality Holdings and Pelli Clarke & Partners. It is the biggest shopping complex in the city and also features residential and office spaces.
The Global North is a gated community using borders to maintain inequality

Mar 19, 2024 | nowthenmagazine.com | Tamara Pearson

Global South workers often earn a fifth or less than people in the Global North. The average annual income per person in Norway (US$95,520), Ireland (US$79,730), the United States (US$76,770), and Australia are (US$60,840). For comparison, in Mexico (US$10,820), Thailand (US$7,230), Ghana (US$2,380), and Afghanistan (US$380) incomes are much lower.
Mexican police attack IWD protesters demanding an end to impunity in crimes against women

Mar 9, 2024 | greenleft.org.au | Tamara Pearson

In a world dominated by a few highly controlled media outlets, Green Left stands out for its fierce independence, political commitment to struggles of the marginalized, and global reporting of key issues. Congratulations Green Left! Proud to have been part of your story. Sujatha Fernandes Writer and Professor of Sociology, University of Sydney:
Dysfunctional Migration App Is Making Migrants to US Vulnerable to Kidnapping

Nov 28, 2023 | truthout.org | Tamara Pearson

The U.S. has been using a dysfunctional app to “manage” a humanitarian crisis, and the situation is reaching a breaking point. Migrants have been using the CBP One app to get appointments with border officials since January. When Title 42 expired in May, the U.S. returned to Title 8 to punish anyone who tries to cross between checkpoints and doesn’t use the app with a five-year ban.
US Immigration Policy Is Designed to Divide the Working Class

Nov 2, 2023 | truthout.org | Joann Lum |Zane McNeill |C.J. Polychroniou |Tamara Pearson

Recently, members at our New York City-based workers center, who include undocumented Indigenous Mexican restaurant workers and Puerto Rican grandmothers who are residents of public housing, have been asking about all the attention and aid being given to new migrants. “What about us who’ve been here?” they ask. Every day they see media images of a “surging” wave of migrants coming into New York City.
Facing Racism and Dire Mismanagement, Alabamans Got Their Water Board Removed

Oct 15, 2023 | truthout.org | Aallyah Wright |Alice Jennings |Tamara Pearson |Zane McNeill

This story was originally published by Capital B. PRICHARD, Alabama —— On a hot afternoon in September, Angela Robinson Adams walked to her backyard, where the recent rain showers created “her own swimming pool.” Adams’ yard rarely floods, but the streets in her Alabama Village neighborhood often do. She had little water pressure in her home, so she called the Prichard Water Works and Sewer Board, the local utility that distributes water to Prichard and the city of Chickasaw.