Social Movements: Community Organizing, Political Formation & Electoral Wins

WTF is Going on in Latin America & The Caribbean

Join us for a powerful female panel conversation on the importance of movement building. We will explore how four Latin American nations changed, or hope to change, their governments and the future of their people. This is a bilingual episode (principally English)

This episode was inspired by a fantastic group of women throughout the Americas that I have had the privilege to work with regarding Colombia solidarity and the recent presidential elections.

Our discussion expands upon a recurring theme that has inevitably arisen in each program throughout the past year as we witnessed numerous elections resulting in Center Left to Revolutionary Left governmental changes across Latin America & the Caribbean

Today we will be speaking with four female movement leaders who each have helped organize, educate and change their governments through electoral politics.

Guests:

Brazil: Claudia Santana Tamsky, sociologist and member of the Partido dos Trabalhadores PT

Colombia: Elizabeth Castaneda, Activist at Colombia humana a political movement and party founded in 2011 and led by President Gustavo Petro.

Honduras: Lucy Pagoada-Quesada, NYC Department of Education teacher, Official Coordinator of the Partido Libre D19 USA-Canadá & Costa Rica. Producer of ‘Voices of Resistance' on WBAI 99.5 FM New York

Nicaragua: Lola Esquivel, Founder of the Gloria Quintanilla Women's Cooperative a member of Friends of the ATC, Nicaragua

In partnership with Common Frontiers Council on Hemispheric Affairs Friends of Latin America Massachusetts Peace Action and Task Force on the Americas, WTF is Going on in Latin America & the Caribbean broadcasts weekly on CODEPINK YouTube Live. You can also find us on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Telegram and RadIndieMedia.com