ECUADOR: Behind the indigenous mass uprisings and ecosocialist struggles

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Come and discuss with a feminist and ecosocialist activist from Ecuador 
(In-person Glasgow "icafe Merchant City", online via Zoom)

The Indigenous-led uprising in Ecuador in October 2019, and the similar national strike mobilisation inJune 2022, have been two of the most dramatic, and successful, in a wave of big struggles and protest movements that swept the world in recent years - from Hong Kong, Iraq and Lebanon, to Chile, Colombia and now Peru and Iran. Thousands of indigenous people went onto the streets of Ecuador to demand reforms in agricultural payment, to tackle the cost-of-living and poverty, to defend indigenous communities and to protect the natural environment from destruction, exploitation and profit-driven extractivism. The indigenous movement marched on the national capital, winning support from workers’ organisations, from students and from the womens’ movement. They forced concessions from a neo-liberal government and vowed to continue the struggle.In some parts of Latin America the semi-insurrections have gone alongside, and partly encouraged, the return of progressive governments in much of the region including recently in Colombia and even Brazil. But the struggles have often gone far beyond the limits of reform-minded governments and posed even bigger questions about the global order. In Ecuador, especially, they have shown something that is also vitally important now to activists in Scotland and other parts of Europe: how an immediate struggle to defend communities against rising prices and an attack on their basic living standards, can both develop a dynamic that is clearly anti-capitalist, and connect with the national and international environmental struggles to defend our planet, our Pacha Mama.Maria Isabel Altamirano is a sociologist, community organiser and ecosocialist who has been active for a number of years in Ecuador in the feminist movement and working in Indigenous communities in both the Highlands and the Amazon region. She was in the midst of the uprisings, both in 2019 and last June. She is now in Glasgow and will give a short introduction on what happened and its context, and then open up a discussion on what we can learn from the struggle. This meeting will be held in Glasgow in person but also available can be joined online, with full participation and discussion including questions. (Please note the meeting will be in English but the speaker will speak in Spanish with translation).In person: icafe (upstairs meeting room), Ingram Street, Glasgow G1 1EX (5 minutes walk from Queen Street/Central stations <a href="https://goo.gl/maps/o39e7q5gHth73xJy5" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Google Maps Link</a>) If you wish to prepare with some reading, please consult our reading list at <a href="https://www.ecosocialist.scot/?page_id=1699" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">ecosocialist.scot (link)</a>.

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