Wednesday, December 14, 2005
Collective Fear
For anyone still sitting on the sidelines of the Fourth World War, Indian Country Today regularly illustrates the global conflict between economic domination and economic cooperation. In the following article about Guatemala--which is roughly 50% indigenous-- the post-war recovery that continues to plague the Mayans following the country's 35-year civil war that ended in 1996, many women are widows who have been forced to raise their children as single parents without government assistance or social welfares.
Until recently, the concept of Mayans working collectively incurred the wrath of the military, police or other authoritarian figures; that's why it was difficult to establish a public co-operative, especially for women only. ''The women still have the fear of organizing, because in the war it wasn't permitted to have meetings."
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412081
Until recently, the concept of Mayans working collectively incurred the wrath of the military, police or other authoritarian figures; that's why it was difficult to establish a public co-operative, especially for women only. ''The women still have the fear of organizing, because in the war it wasn't permitted to have meetings."
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096412081
