Tamara Pearson

hands making love heart

There is a way out of the global love crisis

There are big bucks in outsourcing society’s problems to the individual. writes Tamara Pearson.

Grupo Puebla cr Tamara Pearson

Latin America is now dominated by progressive governments, but are they losing their touch?

Progressive leaders from Latin America gathered in Mexico on September 30, to discuss further regional integration, combating climate change, a regional currency and opposing sanctions. Tamara Pearson reflects on the contrasts with earlier gatherings at the height of the "Pink Tide".

Mexico water and land protectors

Mexican authorities detain whole community for protecting water

The Escolásticas community in Querétaro state, Mexico, has been subjected to extreme police repression, as it struggles to protect land and water from private interests, reports Tamara Pearson.

Title 8

The US government is illegal, not migrants

Title 42 ends today at midnight, but the United States-led war on refugees will continue, as the policies that are replacing Title 42 are in many ways, much worse, writes Tamara Pearson.

Mexican guards let 41 migrants and refugees die in fire, US policy responsible

At least 41 migrants and refugees died in a fire in a migrant prison in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, near the United States border, reports Tamara Pearson.

Water rights meeting in Mexico

Mexican groups call for global protests against corporate water plundering

Movements, organisations and Indigenous communities gathered in the Assembly for Water and For Life over February 18–19, reports Tamara Pearson.

Joe Biden and Roch Marc Christian Kaboré

Why global news is essential for individual and social well-being

The whole world knows about the recent US midterm elections, but how many people in the global north are aware of other country’s elections, or the recent coup in Burkina Faso, asks Tamara Pearson.

Activists march through Xochimilco, Mexico, protesting against corporations

The urgent global climate revolt we need

Climate change is disrupting and harming our lives, writes Tamara Pearson, so we need to disrupt and force change.

Mama film by Xun Sero

Universal white male perspective is destructive, says Mexican Tzotzil filmmaker

Tamara Pearson spoke to Xun Sero, a filmmaker from Mexico’s southern Chiapas state on the release of his new film, Mamá, which premiered in Mexico this month.

The convoy marching through Xochimilco

Indigenous Mexicans stand up to multinationals threatening their survival, climate

Indigenous groups and supporters have spent the past month travelling in a convoy to regions where Western corporations are plundering water and resources. Tamara Pearson took part in the convoy.

Bonafont pplant, Mexico.

Mexico: Indigenous activists launch global campaign against water bottling transnationals

Twenty Indigenous Nahua communities in Mexico, together with hundreds of other organisations, are calling for a boycott of water bottling companies, reports Tamara Pearson.

Journalists protest in Puebla Mexico. Photo: Tamara Pearson

'Its a big mistake to be a journalist in Mexico'

Last year, Mexico was named the second most dangerous country in the world for journalists, after Afghanistan. A recent wave of assassinations has sparked nationwide protest action, reports Tamara Pearson.