https://znetwork.org/author/redbird/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:32:16 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/redbird/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-empire-next-door-protests-in-mexico-grow/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-empire-next-door-protests-in-mexico-grow/#respond Sun, 25 Jan 2026 16:32:04 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293971 An anti-imperialist movement is building in Mexico, where the U.S. invasion of Venezuela has been seen as an act of intimidation for all of Latin America. Protests are swelling in response to this latest blow after decades of political and economic subjugation by its neighbor to the north. Across the country, larger-than-usual marches on January [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/resisting-the-empire-next-door-protests-in-mexico-grow/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-year-of-empire/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-year-of-empire/#comments Sun, 04 Jan 2026 00:17:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293066 With its violent military intervention into Venezuela – a country I used to live in – the U.S. has begun this year with entitled and undisguised imperialism. The unapologetic kidnapping of Nicolas Maduro and of Celia Flores (not just a wife as the media refers to her, but also former head of the National Assembly) [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-new-year-of-empire/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-right-wing-has-used-ai-and-influencers-to-make-up-an-anti-government-movement-in-mexico/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-right-wing-has-used-ai-and-influencers-to-make-up-an-anti-government-movement-in-mexico/#comments Sun, 16 Nov 2025 16:36:31 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291331 “Down with communism,” they chanted while also waving the One Piece pirate flag, meant to be a symbol of resistance to elitist excess, corruption, and inequality. The right-wing march was also meant to be a Generation Z protest, but most of the people I could see among the 1,000 or so marching through the center [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-right-wing-has-used-ai-and-influencers-to-make-up-an-anti-government-movement-in-mexico/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/9-ways-hope-is-being-systematically-depleted-and-how-to-reclaim-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/9-ways-hope-is-being-systematically-depleted-and-how-to-reclaim-it/#comments Fri, 03 Oct 2025 14:21:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289443 “They sowed fear in us, we grew wings,” goes the song in Spanish by Vivir Quintana, about women in Mexico resisting femicide. Amid the protests, a global collective hope crisis is also simmering, with many people hurting, criminalized, repressed, and doubting that justice and dignity are possible. The old fable of a stable job, home, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/9-ways-hope-is-being-systematically-depleted-and-how-to-reclaim-it/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-activists-are-building-digital-defenses-against-big-tech-colonialism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-activists-are-building-digital-defenses-against-big-tech-colonialism/#respond Thu, 15 May 2025 15:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283769 In Mexico, the tech oligarchy is thriving. Amazon is increasing its spending and plans to lavish $6 billion in U.S. currency in Mexico during this year and next. Meanwhile, the multinational technology company Nvidia is manufacturing AI servers (exempted from tariffs) at factories in Mexico. Roughly 60 percent of the U.S.’s AI servers are made in Mexico, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-activists-are-building-digital-defenses-against-big-tech-colonialism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/midwifes-14-year-sentence-highlights-attacks-on-womens-autonomy-global-surge-in-unnecessary-c-sections/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/midwifes-14-year-sentence-highlights-attacks-on-womens-autonomy-global-surge-in-unnecessary-c-sections/#respond Mon, 05 May 2025 14:59:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283381 May 5 is International Day of the Midwife, but Ricardo Jones, a doctor and midwife, is spending it with a 14-year prison sentence for assisting with a home birth in which the baby later died of congenital pneumonia. He says the sentence is the same had he gone “into a hospital and shot a baby [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/midwifes-14-year-sentence-highlights-attacks-on-womens-autonomy-global-surge-in-unnecessary-c-sections/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-illegal-nor-rapists-the-urgency-for-new-stories-about-poor-countries/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-illegal-nor-rapists-the-urgency-for-new-stories-about-poor-countries/#respond Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1280846 When the world was turned upside down … Zimbabweans, Bolivians, Guatemalans, and Haitians went on cruises around the Australian coast. Venezuelan, Iranian, and Honduran journalists observed the presidential elections in the US, and reported for the global media networks on all the abnormalities and undemocratic elements. Senegalese people went to France to teach locals how [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/not-illegal-nor-rapists-the-urgency-for-new-stories-about-poor-countries/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/control-and-worse-trump-is-criminalizing-all-of-latin-america/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/control-and-worse-trump-is-criminalizing-all-of-latin-america/#respond Tue, 04 Feb 2025 17:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279286 From preparing to send migrants to Guantanamo Bay, to labeling cartels “terrorist organizations,” Trump has been using both language and policies to frame Latin American countries and Latinx migrants in the US, as criminal. Painting the entire region as a source of danger, as the enemy, rather than as a partner, paves the way for [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/control-and-worse-trump-is-criminalizing-all-of-latin-america/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corporate-entitlement-towards-the-global-south-filing-claims-against-honduras-worth-40-of-its-gdp/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corporate-entitlement-towards-the-global-south-filing-claims-against-honduras-worth-40-of-its-gdp/#respond Fri, 04 Oct 2024 15:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273243 Human rights defenders gather at an encampment to demand justice for Honduran land defender Berta Cáceres, who was assassinated in 2016. Photo: peacebrigades.org.uk Recently, during a period of just 18 months, investors and corporations brought 14 arbitration claims against Honduras to the International Centre for the Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID), which is part of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/corporate-entitlement-towards-the-global-south-filing-claims-against-honduras-worth-40-of-its-gdp/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wisdom-of-anger-the-battle-for-our-lives/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wisdom-of-anger-the-battle-for-our-lives/#respond Tue, 30 Jul 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270095 [This article is part of ZNetwork.org‘s series, Activist Diaries.] How to handle scarcity It’s the end of May, and a storm is brewing. The sky is grumbling in preparation, but it may not release the rain. Sometimes, the sky seems to get worked up like this, provoke us, then simmer down and let the grey clouds wander [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-wisdom-of-anger-the-battle-for-our-lives/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism/#respond Mon, 26 Feb 2024 17:08:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262746 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pollution-crisis-in-mexico-shows-limits-of-plastic-bag-bans-in-global-capitalism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-america-is-now-dominated-by-progressive-governments-but-are-they-losing-touch/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-america-is-now-dominated-by-progressive-governments-but-are-they-losing-touch/#respond Sun, 08 Oct 2023 14:59:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1255452 Last Saturday night, I sat by a fountain outside the International Museum of the Baroque here in Puebla, Mexico, reflecting on how left-wing governments in Latin America have shifted over the past decade. Inside the museum, the Puebla Group (Grupo de Puebla) was meeting. Self-identifying progressive leaders from the region, including numerous current and former [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/latin-america-is-now-dominated-by-progressive-governments-but-are-they-losing-touch/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-migrant-shelters-are-operating-at-900-capacity-due-to-us-border-policy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-migrant-shelters-are-operating-at-900-capacity-due-to-us-border-policy/#respond Mon, 24 Jul 2023 15:58:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1249889 Thousands of migrants are sleeping on the streets of Mexico, waiting to get an appointment for an interview at the U.S. border, only to be deported back to dangerous and impossible living conditions. Since the pandemic border measure Title 42 ended in early May, English-language mainstream media has emphasized that fewer people are trying to [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexicos-migrant-shelters-are-operating-at-900-capacity-due-to-us-border-policy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-global-news-is-essential-for-individual-and-social-well-being/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-global-news-is-essential-for-individual-and-social-well-being/#respond Fri, 11 Nov 2022 16:47:48 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1231557 The US midterms just took place, and the whole world knows about it. But how many people in the US are aware of other country’s major elections, let alone midterms or state elections for example? There was a coup and a new president in Burkina Faso recently, with significant implications for violence, hundreds of thousands [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-global-news-is-essential-for-individual-and-social-well-being/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-urgent-global-climate-revolt-that-isnt-happening/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-urgent-global-climate-revolt-that-isnt-happening/#respond Fri, 30 Sep 2022 13:38:43 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1221893 Our worldhome is critically ill and on fire, but the politicians and economically powerful are fluffing about with rockets, gleefully banning abortion, spending US$932 billion on new oil and gas fields, and goofing around with carbon trading, as though our living conditions and survival were a leisurely card game. On our side, we are marching and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-urgent-global-climate-revolt-that-isnt-happening/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-horrific-scam-that-water-billionaires-are-running-on-poor-countries/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-horrific-scam-that-water-billionaires-are-running-on-poor-countries/#respond Mon, 21 Mar 2022 11:30:21 +0000 https://zcomm.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1056324 Mega corporations are making around 494 times what they spend by bottling water in Mexico and selling it back to locals who have no choice but to buy it]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-horrific-scam-that-water-billionaires-are-running-on-poor-countries/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-forces-evict-indigenous-activists-who-took-over-water-bottling-plant/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/mexican-forces-evict-indigenous-activists-who-took-over-water-bottling-plant/#respond Fri, 18 Feb 2022 12:35:10 +0000 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