5W Redactor🎶🏺 #Huáncito celebra su Festival de #Música Tradicional #Purépecha y Feria Artesanal del 1 al 3 de noviembre 🌼🎵 #CulturaMichoacán #FeriaArtesanal #Secum #NocheDeMuertos
🌊🕯️ Día de Muertos #purépecha en #Pátzcuaro 💀🌼
Descubre el ritual lacustre que une agua, tradición y comunidad en #Michoacán.
#DíaDeMuertos #TradiciónMexicana #RitualLacustre #CulturaMichoacana
Stoking the FireIndigenous Purépecha Forest Defender María Cruz Paz Zamora Marks One Year in Prison
Statement from the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM) demanding her freedom
Indigenous Purépecha Forest Defender María Cruz Paz Zamora Marks One Year in Prison
Statement from the Supreme Indigenous Council of Michoacán (CSIM) demanding freedom for Indigenous Purépecha political prisoner María Cruz Paz Zamora On June 5, 2024, María Cruz Paz Zamora was arbitrarily detained by orders from the Michoacán Public Prosecutor’s Office. María Cruz is a delegate of the National Indigenous Congress (CNI), member of the Supreme Indigenous...
PhilThe the Purépecha ruins of Tzintzuntzan. Soon after I took this, archaeologists announced the discovery of an enormous Purépecha city nearby! Near Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico.
#tzintzuntzan #purepecha #purépecha #patzcuaro #lagodepátzcuaro #mexico #michoacan #michoacán #travel #ruins #ruinas #ruinasmexicanas
#tzintzuntzan #purepecha #purépecha #patzcuaro #lagodepátzcuaro #mexico #michoacan #michoacán #travel #ruins #ruinas #ruinasmexicanas
Looking out over Patzcuaro Lake from the ruins of Tzintzuntzan. It may not be the grandest of the ancient sites in Mexico, but it has to have the coolest name.
#patzcuaro #lagodepátzcuaro #tzintzuntzan #pátzcuaro #purépecha #michoacán #mexico #méxcio #ruins #ruinas
#patzcuaro #lagodepátzcuaro #tzintzuntzan #pátzcuaro #purépecha #michoacán #mexico #méxcio #ruins #ruinas
Peter RileyCherán: 13 years ago the talamontes, criminality, state, federal police and political parties were expelled from the territory; thus began self-government
https://avispa.org/cheran-keri-el-pueblo-purhepecha-que-vencio-el-miedo-por-la-defensa-de-su-bosque/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cher%C3%A1n
#Cheran #Michoacan #firstnations #Purepecha #viaCampesina #agroecology #directaction
Eco-democracy
“ Political parties were banned & a governing council elected; a reforestation campaign was undertaken to replenish the barren hills; a military force was chartered to protect the trees and the town’s water supply; some of the country’s most advanced water filtration and recycling programmes were created. And the avocado was outlawed. “
https://www.theguardian.com/news/article/2024/jun/11/inside-mexico-anti-avocado-militias
Original
https://harpers.org/archive/2023/11/forbidden-fruit-avocado-militias-michoacan-mexico/
#firstnations #Purépecha
#avocado #Cheran #Michoacan
#viaCampesina
DoomsdaysCWAs the #SaltonSea Shrinks, #Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust
As drought dries up the shallow sea, near a half-million farmable acres in the #ImperialValley, #farmworkers living nearby are exposed to #toxic dust and airborne #pollution from algae blooms. Asthma, allergies, and other health impacts are rising at alarming rates.
By Virginia Gewin, July 17, 2023
"Building on findings from a recent study documenting the health impacts of poor air quality around the Salton Sea, California’s largest inland lake, López was one of 15 mothers who subsequently agreed to photograph their children and their environments. Three-quarters of the 36 caregivers in the study identified as #Hispanic or #Latino, and 24 percent identified as #Purepecha, an #Indigenous group from the Mexican state of Michoacan. Over half of them are #farmworkers, as is common in the small, unincorporated communities that surround the sea.
"On bad air quality days, López keeps her 8-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter inside to protect them from a cascade of symptoms that she says worsen with outdoor exposure, including congestion, skin allergies, and shallow, labored breathing that makes sleep elusive. A 2019 survey found that 22 percent of children have asthma in the region, almost three times the national rate of 8.3 percent.
"Imperial County residents were exposed to over 1,200 pounds of #pesticides—via the air, water, and on the plants themselves—per square mile from 2017-2019. That exposure rate is over 90 percent higher than the rest of #California. On top of that, the region is the hottest in the state—with over 117 days over 100 degrees, according to a 2022 Hazardous Heat report.
"Farmers around the Salton Sea have worked to use water more efficiently and reduce field burning. But they also use intensive, conventional practices that rely on chemical inputs. And there is little if any conversation about changing those practices for the good of the Salton Sea or the area’s residents.
"In the last few years, the long-neglected region has been dubbed #Lithium Valley as it has received unprecedented attention due to its precious lithium reserves needed to fuel the state’s clean energy economy. But residents, scientists, and public health advocates worry that this new gold rush will further an extractive dynamic without adequately addressing community health. And new science about the connection between water pollution and air quality suggests more investment is needed."
#LithiumMining #BigAg #Farming #Environment #EnvironmentalRacism
As the Salton Sea Shrinks, Agriculture’s Legacy Turns to Dust
As drought and reduced agricultural runoff dry up the shallow sea, the farmworkers living nearby are exposed to toxic dust and airborn pollution from algae blooms. They’re also experiencing asthma, allergies, and other health impacts at alarming rates.New