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A couple of articles reminding us how our struggles can make a real difference for the big picture:

1. Check out this article analyzing some of the connections between the push for expanded liquefied natural gas infrastructure in the United States and the recent massacre of indigenous protesters in Peru. The writer points out how increased infrastructure in consuming (First World) countries places more pressure on Third World (producing) countries to expand their own extraction/transport infrastructure.

2. This article on the history of resistance to the Xalala Dam in Guatemala notes that “In November 2008, the government offered the project to private investors, but failed to receive a single bid. Investors reportedly shied away due to the community opposition and the global financial crisis.”

This is an example of how concerted, no compromise resistance can cause even international investors to back off. It’s also an important reminder of why we must keep working for the system’s collapse — because even the relatively minor hiccup that is the current depression has already had a real effect in providing extra breathing room to communities and ecologies worldwide.