[WSMDiscuss] [climate justice now!] Robert responds to Patrick re. Ben Norton's piece on Yaku Perez and his Response to Open Letter to the Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review : Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America; Address the Crisis in Today's Ecuador

[mutualaid10]

https://twitter.com/rosendo_joe/status/1365714794066677761

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 2:20 PM Amar <amar at global.ucsb.edu> wrote:

> Thank you Ivonne. I agree with you 100% and am so inspired by the courage
> and resilience of this coalition against Correismo which, in the end, does
> not displace the traditional oligarchies in Ecuador.
>
> You said it perfectly:  "Do you really promote extractivism and think
> that it will be good for the Ecuadorean people? Do you like seen women
> imprisoned because they have an abortion? Do you like misogyny and
> machismo? And please do not use Yaku as an excuse to avoid the answers."
>
> I am following the 8 March -- International Women's Day -- and the
> fantastic commemorations and demonstrations in Ecuador tomorrow by
> brilliant feminists in alliance with Perez's broad alliance.
>
> in solidarity, for the future!
> Amar
>
> On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 11:08 AM Ivonne Yanez <ivonney at accionecologica.org>
> wrote:
>
>> Friends
>> Compañeras y Compañeros  (I am not in many of the lists so I hope that
>> this message will arrive at least to some of them)
>>
>> Thank you Patrick for all your arguments with which I fully agree.
>>
>> I would like to add a few things to this discussion, as questions as
>> well. It seems that the progressive-conservative left does not really care
>> what Yaku Perez says, thinks or does (with whom Accion Ecologica has worked
>> for 20 years), what this progressive-conservative left only cares about -
>> and takes Yaku only as an excuse - is to perpetuate the correismo in
>> Ecuador.
>>
>> Let's forget about our brother Yaku Perez (and all the racist and
>> neocolonial venom that runs through the blood of parts of the critics of
>> conservative progressivism) and let's ask some questions:
>>
>> - do they really believe that correismo is ecosocialist? do they really
>> believe that correismo is an anti-patriarchal and anti-capitalist option
>> for Ecuador? those who did not live during the 10 years of the correato do
>> not know it. No compñaer at s, It is not.
>> - do they really believe that the correismo is an option for the people
>> in Ecuador? just look at Rabascall's tweet; Arauz's vice-presidential
>> candidate about how well he did in his meeting with the Chamber of Mines.
>> And, in case you didn't know, Arauz is the son of an oil businessman !!!!
>> and studied in the most expensive school in Ecuador (of the Evangelical
>> Alliance, and gringo arm in private education in Ecuador!). Arauz comes
>> from this background! And just for comparison, Yaku is a campesino from the
>> south of Ecuador who has defended water from privatization and mining
>> contamination for more than 20 years.
>> - Do they really believe that BRICS are not sub-imperialist? with the
>> chains of indebtedness with China and the invasion and devastation of its
>> mining and oil companies in the Ecuadorian Amazon; for us they are.
>> - Or, equally, do they believe that integration spaces such as ALBA -
>> promoted by conservative-extractivist and patriarchal progressivism - is an
>> anti-capitalist integration option? just look at their plans with the
>> former-named IIRSA (now COSIPLAN). Massive extractivism and infrastructures
>> over fragile, protected areas and indigenous territories!
>>
>> the debate is not whether Yaku is an ecosocialist or not, but whether the
>> left - of conservative progressivism - is willing to look at itself and
>> feel some shame supporting Arauz for the presidency, and also to support
>> massive human rights, women rights, indigenous rights and nature rights
>> violations. Answer please do you support this? Do you really promote
>> extractivism and think that it will be good for the Ecuadorean people? Do
>> you like seen women imprisoned because they have an abortion? Do you like
>> mosigyny and machismo? And please do not use Yaku as an excuse to avoid the
>> answers.
>>
>> The *voto nulo* in Ecuador is growing, mobilizations are announced.
>> Women's organizations -which massively supported Yaku, since correismo is
>> extremely macho and misogynist- are preparing to march in a few hours.....
>>
>> Millions of young people -who were teenagers during correismo, hate the
>> word "socialism" because it is what they knew and saw with the
>> *dictatorzuelo* Correa. And it is his fault. That is why millions of
>> young people voted for Yaku, for water, for the territories, for life. They
>> will be the ones who will return to the streets, as in October 2019,
>> whoever wins, the banker Lasso or the oil/miner Arauz.
>>
>> the resistance continues...
>>
>> Ivonne
>>
>> NB: some images attached. A tuit from Arauz vecepresident and a feminist
>> meme after Correas declaraion abour abortion
>>
>>
>>
>> El 7/3/2021 a las 12:20, mutualaid10 (via cjn Mailing List) escribió:
>>
>> Reposting with new title for ease of reference.
>> Robert
>>
>> Patrick,
>> I trust you are well.
>> We understand now that you deny that you are a Trotskyite but you do/did
>> criticize BRICS. You also join in descriptions of BRICS as a form of
>> "subimperialism" and "just as corrupt, eco-destructive and inappropriate
>> for meeting people's needs" as the IMF.
>>
>> I have not delved into leftist political theory or history sufficiently
>> to know what being or not being a Trotskyite means. Nor have I examined the
>> impacts of BRICS members trade and international finance policies. I
>> believe that some BRICS member governments have been meeting their people's
>> needs much better than their neoliberal predecessors. That said, you
>> certainly detail a scenario of opportunities that BRICS members failed to
>> use to challenge austerity. And the environmental impacts of BRICS wealth
>> creation are certainly important as are the impacts of non-BRICS wealth
>> creation.
>> But Norton's focus was not on whether or not you are a Trotskyite or
>> whether BRICS is valuable or harmful to a left agenda. His focus - still
>> unanswered - is whether Perez deserves or does not deserve the label
>> "eco-socialist" despite his support for coups, despite these coups being
>> driven by racists and neoliberals against socialist governments, and
>> despite his statements against Ecuadorian government COVID relief because
>> of (his view of) the irresponsibility of Ecuadorian working class families.
>> Norton provides documentation of extensive funding by the USG's National
>> Endowment for Democracy to Pachakutik, Yaku Perez's political party. He
>> writes that members of the Indigenous Confederation, for which Pachakutik
>> is the political arm, have various political orientations but that they are
>> mostly right-wing.
>> Norton writes: "Pachakutik’s tactics echo those of Nicaragua’s Sandinista
>> Renovation Movement (MRS), another fringe US-backed party that played a
>> leading role in a violent 2018 coup attempt against the Central American
>> nation’s democratically elected Sandinista government. Like Pachakutik, the
>> MRS is supported by the US government and works closely with Western-funded
>> NGOs. Both groups act as though they are principled left-wing critics of
>> popular leftist movements, when in reality they form de facto political
>> alliances with right-wing oligarchs."
>> Understood: you are not a Trostkyite and you oppose BRICS because of its
>> failure to challenge neoliberalism effectively.
>> So what did Ben Norton get wrong about Yaku Perez? Yes, I do find his
>> well-documented piece instructive, especially the section titled
>> "“Left-wing” support for right-wing coups in Latin America".
>> Didn't Perez support coups and right-wing governments? Do you support
>> them? Haven't Correista -policies benefited many Ecuadorians? Is there a
>> better - "lefter" - way to affect Ecuadorian and other leftist
>> movements/governments in Latin America than to support such characters who
>> lay groundwork for US Responsibility to Protect narratives predictably
>> resulting in interventions?
>>
>> Your nitpicky response ignores these key questions that your signature on
>> the open letter and Ben Norton's response to it raise.
>> Rob
>>
>>
>>> On Fri, Mar 5, 2021 at 12:34 AM Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Really, there must be higher standards for this kind of discussion. Ben Norton is quite the charlatan, it appears. I just scribbled this friendly note to his zine, asking that it be published - but it might not be (not to worry, I won't cry "censored!"):
>>>>
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>> I haven't looked at *Gray Zone *before, I confess. There are lots of interesting articles. But I'm not sure what to trust and what needs debunking, especially because this journalist is new to me.
>>>>
>>>>     But is he a particularly smeary and sloppy contributor - or is that the norm over there? I just saw a couple of paragraphs in this article below, making odd allegations about me:
>>>>
>>>> Another prominent signatory of the open letter, Patrick Bond, is a distinguished Trotskyite political economist who has spent the last decade leading a campaign to destroy the BRICS, a political and economic framework led by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa that sought to provide the Global South with an alternative <https://michael-hudson.com/2020/04/the-hard-fist-of-american-imperialism/> to the US-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which many Latin American left-wing leaders have condemned as neocolonial institutions.
>>>>
>>>>     Bond, who harshly criticized Brazil’s leftist leader Lula da Silva, edited an entire anti-BRICS book for Haymarket <https://www.haymarketbooks.org/books/756-brics>, the former publishing arm of the US Trotskyite group the International Socialist Organization (ISO) <https://thegrayzone.com/2019/07/06/dsa-jacobin-iso-socialism-conference-us-funded-regime-change/>, which also supported US-backed coups and regime-change operations targeting Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela, China, Syria, Libya, Iran, the former Soviet Union, and former Yugoslavia.
>>>>
>>>> "Trotskyite"? Huh? In my neighbourhood, that's terminology from a political camp whose name begins with S.
>>>>
>>>>     And genuine South African Trots will be having a giggle if they read this label. Many comrades in the half-dozen small revolutionary groups with which I've variously worked with or fought with and sometimes against - and never as a member - over the past three decades, know I try to apply classical Marxist political-economy, political-ecology and social reproduction theory. Sometimes persuasively, sometimes not.
>>>>
>>>>     But they're bemused, I'm guessing, because everyone here knows I'd be utterly hopeless if it ever comes to doing hard Trotskyist work of party building, grassroots and shopfloor organising, or holding to a strong revolutionary political line.
>>>>
>>>>     So to find evidence of alleged Trotskyism, this supposed journalist has to link me to Haymarket Books - whose main publisher Anthony Arnove was once a leading member of the International Socialist Organization. He is also a literary agent, representing Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy, who've published many times with Haymarket and who are both definitely not Trotskyists.
>>>>
>>>>     The 2015 book I co-edited book on BRICS first had co-publishers in Johannesburg (Jacana which is mainly petit-bourgeois progressive); London (Pluto which is indy-left); and Delhi (Aakar which mainly republishes Indian and classical leftist thought from a variety of traditions). My Brazilian co-editor Ana Garcia and I were very happy to mention this book to Haymarket, which always does a great job of publishing and distribution, and they joined to handle North American sales. I've never seen whether they actually sold any copies or ever provided our contributors any royalties - that's typical, no one writes for money - but it doesn't matter.
>>>>
>>>>     Tellingly, the bizarre world view of this journalist is also revealed in his insistence that the BRICS are an alternative to the West. Many of my allies conclude that the BRICS firms and states they see in action on the ground actually offer *amplification and accompaniment -* not alternatives - in ways the West is most wicked: financial power, corporate exploitation, extractivism, ecological destruction, imperial-multilateral legitimation, etc. The Brazilian dependency theorist Ruy Mauro Marini coined a term, "subimperialism," which applies to the BRICS in many ways, through "antagonistic cooperation."
>>>>
>>>>     Rather than address this critique, which was joined by some leading scholars in our 2015 book (Wallerstein, Panitch, Sam Moyo and many others before and since), the scholarly writing <https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5&q=%22patrick+bond%22+brics&btnG=> I've done proving this point - alongside a bit of activism - is caricatured as:
>>>>
>>>> leading a campaign to destroy the BRICS, a political and economic framework led by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa that sought to provide the Global South with an alternative <https://michael-hudson.com/2020/04/the-hard-fist-of-american-imperialism/> to the US-dominated International Monetary Fund (IMF) and World Bank, which many Latin American left-wing leaders have condemned as neocolonial institutions.
>>>>
>>>> Now that link - https://michael-hudson.com/2020/04/the-hard-fist-of-american-imperialism/ - is to an interview implying that Michael Hudson is a supporter of the BRICS because the Western financial system is so exploitative. But the transcript makes clear that although *Gray Zone *tries to push this line, Michael certainly doesn't buy it and gives no affirmation whatsoever to their wild, juvenile theory. By now, anyone in this field should know:
>>>>
>>>>    - When the Chinese, Brazilians, Indians and even Russians raised their voting shares in the IMF in 2015, which was the last opportunity (by 37, 23, 11 and 8% respectively, though South Africa lost 21% and Venezuela and Nigeria lost 41% of their shares each), this led to the corrupt neoliberal Christine Lagarde's reconfirmation as IMF MD (with no BRICS oppo) and even harsher IMF conditionality measures in sites like Argentina, Ecuador, and Jordan leading to mass protests.
>>>>    - The fabled BRICS Contingent Reserve Arrangement - as a $100 bn alternative to the IMF - has never ever appeared, even when South Africa took out an IMF loan with great protest in the society last August.
>>>>    - The BRICS New Development Bank is just as corrupt, eco-destructive and inappropriate for meeting people's needs as the World Bank; and the NDB and World Bank have an agreement to collaborate on financing projects and even sharing staff.
>>>>    - Promises of a BRICS alternative credit rating agency (instead of S&P, Fitch and Moody's) never appeared.
>>>>
>>>> So, thanks for the "alternative," BRICS.
>>>>
>>>>     And thanks for being so silly, *Gray Zone, *that I am reaffirmed in supporting Ecuadorians who have such powerful indigenous, ecologist, feminist and eco-socialist orientations, and for those values, are also being smeared in an utterly incompetent manner by this punk, Ben Norton.
>>>>
>>>> ***
>>>>
>>>> I hope the lad grows up one day and gets serious about politics and eco-social analysis; poor chap has a long way to go.
>>>>
>>>>     Robert, do please raise your own standards of what is "instructive," too!
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> Patrick
>>>>
>>>> On Wed, Mar 3, 2021 at 9:20 AM mutualaid10 <mutualaid10 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Greetings all,
>>>>> I found this response to the open letter instructive and worth considering:
>>>>> https://thegrayzone.com/2021/03/01/academic-letter-censor-grayzone-ecuador-yaku-perez/
>>>>> Best,
>>>>> Robert
>>>>> On Tue, Mar 2, 2021 at 2:38 PM Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Tuesday, March 2, 2021
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Hola Gina
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             No, you are very much there; as below.  Unfortunately, the list has not been organised alphabetically either by first name or surname, and so it’s not easy to find one’s own name or anyone else’s.  (The advantage of this though, is that if one really wants to know, then you have to scroll through the names – and so you get to ‘meet’ so many new people !)
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             In solidarity,
>>>>>>
>>>>>>             Jai
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [Extract :]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> André Luiz de Oliveira Domingues, farm worker, DSA IC Americas, USA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Mia Yee, alumni, College of the Holy Cross
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Juan Wahren, Investigador y Profesor, Universidad de Buenos Aires/ CONICET
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Pablo Solón, Fundación Solón, Bolivia
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Gina Vargas, Feminista, Peru
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Sandra Macedo, Sociologa e artista visual, Brasil
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Eduardo Erazo Acosta, Professor, University Nariño, Colombia
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Judith Dellheim, Researcher, Zukunftskonvent Germany, Deutschland
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College, USA
>>>>>>
>>>>>> [SNIP]
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On Mar 2, 2021, at 2:30 PM, gina vargas via WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net> wrote:
>>>>>> I send my signature since the beginning, and I am not there... well, a pity, next time
>>>>>> Gina Vargas
>>>>>> El mar, 2 mar 2021 a las 12:06, Jai Sen (<jai.sen at cacim.net>) escribió:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tuesday, March 2, 2021
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Ecuador in movement…, **Abya Yala in movement…, **Politics in movement…, **Ideas in movement…, **The Left in movement…, Movements in movement…*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [Here, for those interested, is the Final version of the Open Letter to the Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review which was posted on this list for signatures, last week.  I’m copying in the initiator of this letter, Paul Amar :
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Open Letter to the Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review : Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America; Address the Crisis in Today's Ecuador*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paul Amar, Sonia Correa, Ghaitai Paul Males Castañeda, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Mara Viveros Vigoya, and others
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>             JS
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> *Open Letter*
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> --Address the Crisis in Today's Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dear Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> March 1st, 2021
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We, the signatories of this letter, have to come together to demand the retraction or clarification of two
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> recent articles that smear political movements and leaders in Ecuador. The gains of Yaku Pérez and the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> coalition around the Pachakutik party in the 7 February 2021 elections represent an exciting and emergent
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> new left comprised of Indigenous organizations, eco-socialist politics, feminist and LGBTQ+ activists,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> anti-racist movements, and anti-extractivist causes. On 24 February 2021, these movements came
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> together in the streets of Ecuador, to demand that every vote be counted. Silencing and discrediting
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ecuadoran voices as well as new popular movements—while demanding fealty to state capitalist leaders
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> associated with the extractivist “left” in Ecuador and across the region—must end. Ben Norton’s “How
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing,”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> (republished by the Monthly Review on 8 February 2021) [1] and Denis Rogatyuk’s “Ecuador’s Election
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Was a Massive Repudiation of Neoliberalism” (published in Jacobin Magazine on 18 February)[2] do not
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> reflect the traditions of Monthly Review—the “longest continuously published socialist magazine in the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> United States.” [3] Both articles contradict Jacobin’s founders’ goal to develop a “product of a younger
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> generation not quite as tied to the Cold War paradigms that sustained the old leftist intellectual milieu.”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [4] The editors’ openness to new generations is at odds with the sustained offensive against a new
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indigenous eco-socialist and feminist political left in Latin America.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rogatyuk’s article in Jacobin condemns the eco-socialist candidate Pérez and his partner, Manuela Picq,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> pointing out they “have for years attempted to portray Correa as an anti-Indigenous, anti-environment
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> leader that pursues an ‘extractivist’ model of development.” Yes, they have, as have most independent
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> social scientists who have looked at the wreckage of the Correa legacy. [5] There is a vibrant, Indigenous,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and youth-led coalition of leftists who have critiqued Correa’s misuse of “el buen vivir” principles in his
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> policies. These policies nourished new extractive industries. Under Correa, the state criminalized
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indigenous groups,[6] LGBTQ+ populations, and exploited new mining resources and areas such as
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yasuní.[7] Rogatyuk mocks the new left in Ecuador as a “ragbag” and “surreal” group who “absurdly”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> make claims about the partiality of electoral commissions. Rogatyuk overlooks the extensive and historic
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> struggles of Indigenous identity, genocide and sovereignty, as well as the multiple battles against
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> extractivism and ecological devastation, gendered injustices, political/social misogyny, [8] and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> homophobia. The article willfully ignores the organizational and social momentum and innovation that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> fueled Pérez’s electoral success. It ignores these movements’ critiques of extractivist statism and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> monolithic personalism. Rogatyuk suggested that “Pérez’s political record suggests he is a Trojan horse
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> for the left’s most bitter enemies.”
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Similarly, Norton’s Monthly Review article disdainfully dismisses environmentalists, whose critiques of
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> extractivism or racist policies of the statist left he portrayed as “opening up space for the right.” The
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> author singles out “Extinction Rebellion” as a right-wing tool. He rages against the language of
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> “decoloniality” and the eco-socialist left’s critique of statist leaders’ complicity with whiteness and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> colonial-economic and social legacies. In a typically authoritarian thrust, the article demonizes anyone
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> who allies themselves with NGOs, branding them as supporters of imperialism.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Norton’s widely circulated Monthly Review article aimed at fracturing the left and eroding social
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> movement support for Pérez as an alternative. The piece was published at a crucial moment in the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ecuadorian presidential election. Conventional media outlets have used it to discredit and damage a
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> candidate of the eco-socialist/Indigenous/feminist left. Norton’s article wove together a series of Pérez’s
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> tweets critiquing the statist and extractivist left. Of course, many members of the progressive left,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> including some of us writing this letter, disagreed with these proclamations as well as Pérez’s support of
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> neoliberal candidates as a strategy to defeat authoritarian elements. But we contextualize these positions.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Monthly Review article spotlights Manuela Picq, Pérez’s partner, in a misogynist and homophobic
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> diatribe that mocks and attacks her feminist, queer studies, and eco-social politics. Generating absurd
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> conspiracy narratives, this article designates her body as evidence of Pérez’s imperialist complicity. It
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> stinks of rumor-mongering, noting that she took classes at Princeton in a building named after Ronald
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Reagan, as if this would prove that she was a stooge of the Reagan administration. At age 25, Picq was
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> part of a civil society dialogue in the FTAA negotiation process where she organized critics of the FTAA.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Instead of mentioning this history of radical praxis, she is accused of being a “CIA cutout” and an agent
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> of “billionaire George Soros,” a familiar anti-Semitic accusation. She is also incriminated for teaching
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> classes in queer studies and feminist theory. The author claims that because Picq teaches “Latinx
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Studies” and “Queering Notions of Modernity,” she is an enemy of global class struggle and complicit
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> with imperialism. Norton does not acknowledge the long list of Picq’s other publications on queer theory,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> international relations, social movement struggles, or resistance to authoritarianism. Most tellingly, the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> author does not mention that Picq was arrested and deported from Ecuador by the Correa government for
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> having participated in united Indigenous, feminist, and anti-extractivist protests.[9]
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These two articles do not explore in detail the context of Pérez’s political momentum in the organization
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and revitalization of CONAIE—the Indigenous confederation that led the largest set of protests in
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ecuadorian history in October 2019, uniting Indigenous groups, feminists, students, and workers
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> movements to fight back against the imposition of a wrenching IMF accord and to demand the end to
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ecocidal plunder and land dispossession. This moment consolidated the leadership of a younger
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> generation. CONAIE’s legacy, of uniting movements in October 2019, lent popular and movement
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> support to Pérez’s candidacy and might bring him perhaps to second place in the polling. The article does
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> not mention the historic October 2019 uprising or CONAIE and Pérez’s roles in it.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We are concerned that a significant number of today’s left-wing actors, across the Americas and the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> world, align themselves with extractivism, agrobusiness, authoritarian statism, [10] and stand against
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Indigenous, anti-racist, and anti-patriarchal movements, ideas, and leaders. We worry that the former is
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> acting to eject the latter from the conversation by labeling them as right-wingers and allies of imperialism.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We should not be distracted from the wave of violent, ultra-racist “populism,” and military and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> parliamentary coups that have swept the region in the past years. It is exactly these authoritarian
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> developments that make it irresponsible and dangerous to brand those who critique the extractivist left as
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> allies of Yankee imperialists or sympathetic to Bolsonaro-type populists who are encouraging genocide,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> femicide, racial exterminations, and homophobic assassinations. We stand against authoritarian statism
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> focusing on individual male populist figures and armed, militarized “machocratic” patriarchy. Against
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> this model, a new progressive alternative for the left has been emerging—led by Indigenous, Black, and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> feminist as well as class and worker-identified justice movements—to advocate redistribution of wealth,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> land, and autonomies to forge new modes of collective, bodily, and eco-social participation and rights.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> After Ecuador’s 7 February 2021 election, civil society groups across Ecuador raised concerns that an
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> effort was underway to “find votes” needed to bring Lasso’s totals above Pérez’s. This would serve both
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> sides of what Chilean writer Andrés Kogan Valderrama has labeled the “binary” political equation [11] of
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> extractivist left and neoliberal right. Both sides saw Pérez as the most threatening opponent, for he might
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> win and, more than that, dismantle the binary political equation that has been making true redistribution
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and eco-social justice unimaginable. The Ecosocialist Feminist Network stated, “We reject the role that
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> ‘Correismo’ [Rafael Correa’s regime] has played in this moment, exacerbating racism and delegitimizing
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> social struggle through media campaigns…We know that the struggle continues and what will be the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> mobilization and unity of the popular field will permit us to sustain the gains accumulated in October
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [2019] and resistance against this system of death.” [12] We deplore the demonization of both Pérez and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> movements that brought him so close to the run-off election. A left-wing global community deserves
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> better, and we call on the editors of Monthly Review and Jacobin to reject these simplistic and dangerous
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> analyses which feed right wing structures of hate in Latin America.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Signed,
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paul Amar, Professor, Director of Orfalea Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sonia Correa, Co-Chair, Sexuality Policy Watch
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ghaitai Paul Males Castañeda, Comunidad Indígena de Compañía, Líder Espiritual Cristiano-Andino de Jóvenes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Macarena Gómez-Barris, Professor, Pratt Institute
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mara Viveros Vigoya, Profesora Titular, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, LASA President (2019-2020)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lisa Duggan, Professor, New York University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cristina Yépez Arroyo, McGill University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Professor, Wesleyan University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> William C. Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of Miami
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rita Laura Segato, Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pamela Martin, Professor, Coastal Carolina University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mario Pecheny, Professor, University of Buenos Aires
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cruz Caridad Bueno, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, SUNY-New Paltz
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Javiera Barandiaran, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Michelle Artieda, Florida International University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mieke Verloo, Professor, Radboud University, The Netherlands
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lena Lavinas, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sherene R Seikaly, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gita Sen, DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), Fiji
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gloria Careaga, Facultad de Psicología, UNAM, Mexico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rosalind Petchesky, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Hunter College &The Graduate Center, City University of New York
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rina Pakari Marcillo, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Steve Stein, Senior Professor, University of Miami
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Markus Thiel, Associate Professor, Florida International University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dominique Chiriboga, Activista Feminista y LGBT, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Flavio Carrera V., Project Coordinator, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daniela Cabascango, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kiran Asher, University of Massachusetts Amherst
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carolina Benalcázar, Concordia University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fernando Luz Brancoli, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Diana Coryat, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bila Sorj, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pablo Ospina Peralta, Docente de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Antonia Carcelen-Estrada, Profesora investigadora, Universidad San Francisco de Quito/Northumbria University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jennyfer Masaquiza, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, California State University, Chico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carlos de la Torre, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Miriam Lang, Professor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carmen Diana Deere, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Florida; LASA President (1992-1994)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Guilherme Leite Gonçalves, Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Johannes Waldmüller, Research Professor, Universidad de Las Américas, EPN
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sylvia Cifuentes, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Larry Lohmann, The Corner House (Environmental and Social Justice), UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gareth Dale, Brunel University, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alvaro Jarrin, Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alberto J. Olvera, Profesor Titular, Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales, Universidad Veracruzana, Mexico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Benjamin Arditi, Professor of Politics, UNAM, Mexico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Margarita López Maya, CENDES-UCV, Venezuela
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Les Levidow, Senior Research Fellow, Open University, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Javier Corrales, Professor, Amherst College
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Patrick Bond, Professor, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Joan Martinez-Alier, ICTA, Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Zillah Eisenstein, writer, Prof. Emerita, Ithaca College
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Iokiñe Rodriguez, Seniour Lecturer, University of East Anglia, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rehad Desai, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cristina Vega, Profesora Investigadora, FLACSO Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Muhammad Reza Sahib, KRuHA - people's coalition for the right to water, Indonesia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Monroe Edwin Jeffrey, International Tribal Association, United States
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Francesco Martone, Senatore della Repubblica, Italia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Barry Gills, University of Helsinki, Finland
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pedro Gutiérrez Guevara, Researcher, Kaleidos Center of Interdisciplinary Ethnography, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rosemary E. Galli, independent researcher, Observatório das Nacionalidades, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Elisa Van Waeyenberge, SOAS University of London, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Markus Kröger, Associate Professor, University of Helsinki, Finland
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gabriel Roldos, ROLPRO SAS Publishing House, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tom Kucharz, Ecologistas en Acción, Spain
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lisa Rofel, Professor Emeritus and Research Professor, Co-Director, Center for Emerging Worlds, UC Santa Cruz
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marcelo Coelho, Journalist, Folha de São Paulo, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alejandro Bendaña, Activist, Nicaragua
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John Francis Foran, Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Melissa Weiner, Associate Professor, College of the Holy Cross
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ashish Kothari, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, India
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Elisabeth de Souza Lobo, Psychologue, Université Paris 7, France
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Noah Zweig, Investigador Independiente, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Devin Beaulieu, University of California, San Diego
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bárbara Sepúlveda Hales, Asociación de Abogadas Feministas, Chile
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Eng-Beng Lim, Director of Dartmouth Consortium of Studies in Race, Migration, and Sexuality; Assoc Professor WGSS, Dartmouth College
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pallav Das, Editor, Radical Ecological Democracy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Roxana Erazo, University of Toronto
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Santiago Acosta, Lecturer of Spanish, University of California, Davis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Andrea Sempértegui, Lafayette College, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Najwa Mayer, Postdoctoral Fellow, Dartmouth
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Judith Butler, Professor, University of California, Berkeley
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marisol de la Cadena, Professor, University of California-Davis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Benjamin Arditi, Professor of Politics, UNAM, Mexico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Rosa Jijón Co-founder, A4C Arts for the Commons, Italy
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Donald E.Pease, Professor, Dartmouth College, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Grace Delgado, Data Analyst, Dagan Inc., Estados Unidos
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tamra L. Gilbertson, Professor, University of Tennessee and Indigenous Environmental Network
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Danid Barkin, Distinguished Professor, Metropolitan Autonomous University, Mexico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Jai Sen, Researcher and listserve curator
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Catherine Szpunt, Occupational Therapist, BOE, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Fabio Luis Barbosa dos Santos, Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Associate Professor, Lehigh University, United States
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Salvador Schavelzon, Professor, Universidade Federal de São Paulo, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> André Luiz de Oliveira Domingues, farm worker, DSA IC Americas, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mia Yee, alumni, College of the Holy Cross
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Juan Wahren, Investigador y Profesor, Universidad de Buenos Aires/ CONICET
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pablo Solón, Fundación Solón, Bolivia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gina Vargas, Feminista, Peru
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sandra Macedo, Sociologa e artista visual, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Eduardo Erazo Acosta, Professor, University Nariño, Colombia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Judith Dellheim, Researcher, Zukunftskonvent Germany, Deutschland
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Silvia Spitta, Dartmouth College, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carolyn D'Cruz, La Trobe University, Australia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dr MK Dorsey, Club of Rome, Spain
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Didice Godinho Delgado, Activist, Germany
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> S A Hamed Hosseini, Alternative Futures Research Network, Common Alternatives, University of Newcastle, Australia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Céline Veríssimo, Associate Professor, Federal University of Latin American Integration, Brazil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nina Isabella Moeller, Associate Professor, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University, England, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kevin Bruyneel, Professor, Babson College, United States
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> JM Pedersen, Honorary Research Fellow, Centre for Agroecology, Water and Resilience, Coventry University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Julien-François Gerber, Researcher and Teacher, Institute of Social Studies, The Netherlands
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mirella Pretell Gomero, Syracuse University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Pamela Calla, Profesor, New York University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> A. Naomi Paik, Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Carla Rodrigues, UFRJ, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Gayatri Gopinath, Professor, New York University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Teresa Armijos Burneo, Lecturer, University of East Anglia, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Trevor Hirsche, Instructor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Bolivia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Josefina Saldaña-Portillo, Professor, New York University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stefania Barca, Zennström Professor of Climate Change Leadership, Uppsala Universitet, Sweden
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Éric Fassin, Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies, Paris 8 University (Vincennes - Saint-Denis)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Suzana Sawyer, Associate Professor, University of California, Davis
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Cristina Rojas, Professor, Carleton University, Canada
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Nadine Lefaucheur, CNRS Retraitée, Martinique France
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Helena Hirata, Directrice de Recherche Emérito, CNRS, France
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Angela Freitas, Coletivo Feminista 4D, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dennis Altman Professor, LaTrobe University, Australia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Isabelle Stengers, Prof. emerita, Université Libre de Bruxelles
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Emmanuelle Picard, Assistant Professor, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Valentine Olivera, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Picard Elodie, OpenEdition, France
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Daniel Fischer, Food Not Bombs, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Margaret Wiener, Associate Professor, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ana María Goldani, Brazil LAB, Princeton University
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paola Minoia, University Lecturer, University of Helsinki, Finland
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Lucas Savino, Associate Professor, Western University, Past-Chair of Ethnicity, Race and Indigenous Peoples Section (LASA)
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marco Aurelio Maximo Prado, Professor, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Breno Bringel, Professor, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Tristan Partridge, Research Fellow, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Geoff Goodwin, London School of Economics, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aida Matilde Marcillo Perugachi, Concejala del Canton Otavalo, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Stalin Herrera, Instituto de Estudios Ecuatorianos, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> George Yudice, Professor, University of Miami
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Malvika Gupta, University of Oxford, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Aida Luz Lopez, Universidad Autónoma de la Ciudad de Mexico
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Enrique Leff, Senior Researcher/Professor, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Giorgos Kallis, Professor, ICTA-UAB, Spain
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mariana Walter, Phd. Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Angus McNelly, Queen Mary University of London, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Dalena Tran, Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA-UAB), Spain
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Isabelle Darmon, Lecturer in Sociology and Sustainable Development, University of Edinburgh
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bárbara Sepúlveda Hales, Asociación de Abogadas Feministas, Chile
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> John Cavanagh, Director, Institute for Policy Studies, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anna Storti, Dartmouth College, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Robin Broad, Professor, American University, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Alberto Acosta, Expresidente de la Asamblea Constituyente (2007-2008), Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Marinalva de Sousa Conserva/ Profa. Dra., Universidade Federal da Paraíba, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Maria aparecida Ramos, Assembleia Legislativa da Paraíba, Brasil
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Bryan Winston, Dartmouth College, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Margherita Scazza, University of Edinburgh, UK
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Anne Petermann, Executive Director, Global Justice Ecology Project
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Mateo Martínez Abarca, National Autonomous University of México, Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Kristina Lyons, Assistant Professor, University of Pennsylvania, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Clara Keane, Occidental College, USA
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Edgardo Lander, Citizen's Platform in Defense of the Constitution, Venezuela
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Julio César Díaz Calderón, University of Florida, México
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Christian Gros, Professeur Honoraire, Institut des hautes études de l'Amérique latine, Paris
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paula Castells Carrión, FARO (Foundation for the Advance of Reforms and Opportunities), Ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Ximena Francisca Andrade Jorquera, docente e investigadora, UEM FLCS, Mozambique
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Notes
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [1] https://mronline.org/2021/02/10/how-ecuadors-u-s-backed-coup-supporting-ecosocialist-candidate-yaku-perez-aids-the-right-wing/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [2] https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/ecuador-election-arauz-hervas-perez-neoliberalism
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review#:~:text=The%20Monthly%20Review%2C%20established%20in,magazine%20in%20the%20
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> United%20States.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20190711101435/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> http://idiommag.com/2011/03/no-short-cuts-interview-with-the-jacobin/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [5]There is extensive literature that examines how the period of Rafael Correa's government as a time of impunity and human rights violations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8675.12117
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [6] In 2017, CONAIE fought to get amnesty for all activists of the indigenous movement who had been prosecuted and sentenced for protesting
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Correa’s government and Chinese mining companies, and defending water resources. The government misused anti-terrorism laws dating from
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> the 1970s military dictatorship to incarcerate indigenous leaders protesting extractivism. At that time, 98 individuals faced criminal prosecutions
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> for resistance to authority, terrorism, sabotage, etc. See: https://www.planv.com.ec/historias/politica/conaie-la-lucha-la-amnistia
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> and https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-22656374
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [7] See: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2013/oct/15/ecuador-president-misleading-yasuni
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [8] Correa’s sabatinas, weekly speeches televised in different locations around the country on Saturdays, were spaces which could last up to three
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> hours. There he presented his visions and proposals, and attacked citizens, journalists, human rights activists, academics, and environmentalists.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> The Media Observatory of Ecuador (OME) has counted 95 grievances against women and for sexist language in the 152 Correa’s weekly
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> speeches between 2013 and 2016.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> See: https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/23/planeta_futuro/1495560980_079621.html
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> On Saturday December 28, 2013, one of the last during Correa’s first administration, the former president criticized "gender ideology." On the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> same occasion, Correa affirmed “defending the traditional family” and declared opposition to abortion "has nothing to do with the left or the
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> right," but are simple “moral issues.” See full video here: https://youtu.be/ODXFdqtGsyo?t=6341
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [9] See: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-manuela-picq
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [10] In 2013, Rafael Correa issued Executive Decree No. 16 to control NGOs and establish limitations on the independent and autonomous
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> functioning of unions and social organizations. The decree was harshly criticized by local and international organizations.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://sobrevivientes.planv.com.ec/decreto-16-y-las-amenazas-a-las-ong/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Correa arbitrarily punished journalists who did not agree with him and actively attacked indigenous environmental activists who opposed oil and
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> gas extraction or open-pit mining on their lands. https://rsf.org/en/news/what-future-free-speech-ecuador-after-presidential-election
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0418-new-report-shines-light-on-dark-days-for-amazon-earth-defenders-in-ecuador
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [11] https://oplas.org/sitio/2021/02/14/andres-kogan-valderrama-yaku-perez-y-el-fin-de-los-binarismos/
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> [12] https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article7033
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> att
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Paul Amar, Sonia Correa, Ghaitai Paul Males Castañeda, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Mara Viveros Vigoya, and others, March 2021 - ‘Open Letter to the Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review : Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America; Address the Crisis in Today's Ecuador’, dt March 1st 2021
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Begin forwarded message:
>>>>>>> *From: *"mutualaid10" (via social-movements Mailing List) <social-movements at lists.riseup.net>
>>>>>>> *Subject: **Re: [social-movements] [WSMDiscuss] [climate justice now!] Please support Ecuadorian progressives contesting extractivist politics (from Quito to NYC) - an Open Letter sign on if you have a moment*
>>>>>>> *Date: *February 28, 2021 at 2:10:35 PM EST
>>>>>>> *To: *David Watson <DWatson at cranbrook.edu>
>>>>>>> *Cc: *Discussion list about emerging world social movement <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>, Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net>, Water Warriors <waterwarriors at fwwatch.org>, "Post CJN!" <cjn at lists.riseup.net>, Post CJA International <climate09-int at lists.riseup.net>, Post Social Movements Riseup <social-movements at lists.riseup.net>, Post RED <radical_ecological_democracy at googlegroups.com>, Post Debate <debate-list at fahamu.org>
>>>>>>> *Reply-To: *mutualaid10 at gmail.com
>>>>>>> Hello David,
>>>>>>> I am generally against coups. Apparently, you believe that, under some circumstances, they should be supported. You have not been clear about what those contexts are?
>>>>>>> Is it that supposedly Morales, Chavez, and other popular leaders (perhaps Lula?) "kleptocratic" (your characterization)? Or is it that they are elected or rule, according to you, in violation of 'democratic norms'?  Hugo Chavez multiple times.
>>>>>>> I believe an international left can/should both oppose coup d'etats and advance environmental goals by being supportive yet critical of popular governments in the global south that advance their peoples' well-being through exploiting their natural resources. For my part, I believe supporting coups is not leftist, but why be dogmatic. Supporting coups (soft vs. Lula; hard vs. Chavez/Maduro) as well as militarism generally is destructive. Those acts are also illegal and drive world politics towards environmentally unsustainable dynamics (competition, arms races, military action) and resulting suffering. Environmentalists and leftists should be advocating for CBDR under Kyoto instead of supporting coups; we should be challenging neoliberalism and promoting degrowth in the overconsuming North.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> So, to be clear, do you join Yaku Perez, the 'ecosocialist' candidate from Ecuador, in supporting coups in Bolivia, Venezuela, Brazil, and Nicaragua? And which of the many coups that the U.S. has supported in the 21st and 20th centuries do you find resulted in benefits for democracy or environmental stewardship?
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> By the way, I'm not sure if you were stating that Ben Norton's article is from Global Research. If so, you are mistaken, it is from https://thegrayzone.com. Here's another: https://thegrayzone.com/2021/02/06/ecuador-election-citizens-revolution/
>>>>>>> Robert
>>>>>>> On Sun, Feb 28, 2021 at 10:35 AM David Watson <DWatson at cranbrook.edu> wrote:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Mutual Aid, you ask: “What context is necessary?” Because, apparently, “coup d'etats supported by the US against these leftist governments” explains it all? With this rusty Occam’s Razor, there’s never any internal problem with, say, Evo trying to grab power for himself no matter the cost. https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2020/12/03/evo-morales-bolivia-tarnished-savior/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> In a Manichean universe, there is nothing ambiguous or contradictory, no loose threads; everything can be rationally explained by the machinations of the Behemoth. No accidents, no paradox.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Maybe the necessary context is the glaring public secret that so many of these left populist governments have become authoritarian-gangster kleptocracies? That basic democratic norms (and enduring social-ecological change) actually matter, even if Comandante Hugo or Madero or Ortega or Mugabe or Assad or Milosevic or the Khmer Rouge assure us otherwise? Mutual Aid—really?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sadly, pace the authors of the open letter, (and despite good things published there) one of the articles in question does generally reflect the “traditions” of Monthly Review, at least in matters such as these—look at the godawful rubbish MR Press has published on the Balkans (e.g. the Diana Johnstone book), its apologetics for the Milosevic regime and denials of war crimes and genocide in Bosnia and Kosova. The enemy of my enemy is my friend—and a virtuous one, a Great Leader even?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Shall we abolish having more than one thought in one’s head at a time? Must the question be for the People’s Front (united or popular): which is to be master? So take sides? Imperialist oil, bad; People’s oil, good?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> And the article you are arguing about came from Global Research, a paranoid, conspiracy-mongering, stalino-manichean cult of Milosevic and Assad apologists, 9-11 “truthers,” and antivax pandemic deniers. This is where the Bizarro left manufactures dissent.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://balkanwitness.glypx.com/chossudovsky.htm
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/global-research/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> https://countervortex.org/russiagate-syria-and-the-left/
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> http://balkanwitness.glypx.com/syria.htm
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I look forward to a day when an authentic international left might emerge that is wise enough to reject the double blackmail.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I sympathize with Jai’s concerns, and have not yet signed the letter, because I am tired of clicking and signing, and I am a Nobody (who are you?). But I am glad people have signed. And that Patrick sent it.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Salud!
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *From:* WSM-Discuss <wsm-discuss-bounces at lists.openspaceforum.net> *On Behalf Of *mutualaid10 via WSM-Discuss*Sent:* Friday, February 26, 2021 8:26 PM*To:* Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net>*Cc:* mutualaid10 <mutualaid10 at gmail.com>; Water Warriors <waterwarriors at fwwatch.org>; Post CJN! <cjn at lists.riseup.net>; Post CJA International <climate09-int at lists.riseup.net>; Post Social Movements Riseup <social-movements at lists.riseup.net>; Post RED <radical_ecological_democracy at googlegroups.com>; Post Debate <debate-list at fahamu.org>; Post WSMDiscuss <wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net>*Subject:* Re: [WSMDiscuss] [climate justice now!] Please support Ecuadorian progressives contesting extractivist politics (from Quito to NYC) - an Open Letter sign on if you have a moment
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *CAUTION:* This email has been received from an external email address. Please do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ------------------------------
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> " Of course, many members of the progressive left, including some of us writing this letter, disagreed with these proclamations as well as Pérez’s support of neoliberal candidates as a strategy to defeat authoritarian elements. But we contextualize these positions."
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I think Norton's article documents Perez's support for coup d'etats supported by the US against these leftist governments.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> What context is necessary?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Fri, Feb 26, 2021 at 7:52 PM Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Friday, February 26, 2021
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>             Thanks for posting this sign-on letter, Patrick.  Agreed, it’s a good letter, about important issues, and therefore worth signing, and I have tried to do so.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> But I’d like to use this opportunity to raise a small issue of everyday practice in such politics : In short, when the letter even announces itself as being “an Open Letter”, why is it framed in such an exclusive, brahminical manner that to sign on, you have to declare your affiliation to an ‘institution’ ?  And so, implicitly, to have the necessary ‘credentials’ and ‘legitimacy’ to be included in the list of signatories ?  And where it’s therefore in reality “open” only to some ?
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>             Yes, those interested in signing can – if one tries - work our way around these portals (as I have tried to – let me see if that works), but I’d guess that it’s almost certainly not a coincidence that as a result, the vast majority of those who have signed… are professional academics, and not activists, let alone unaffiliated, free individuals.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>             This is a pity, for a letter that seeks to stand for the important principles that it spells out.  Yes, this could well be a function what the software used for the sign-on demands or dictates – but then why did the organisers of this letter decide to use this software ?  (And to boot, why have they also chosen to use software created by one of the world’s largest corporations – despite all that they say in their letter ?!)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>             It’s time that we all paid a little more critical attention to such ‘smaller’ issues, and practices, of everyday life and politics.  Just ease of use is not reason enough.  And where some more of us, including those institutionally affiliated, could also consider rebelling against such strictures, and refuse to give this kind of information.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>             Jai
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> On Feb 26, 2021, at 3:57 AM, Patrick Bond <pbond at mail.ngo.za> wrote:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> (This is a good letter to sign on to, so our close comrades in the U.S. left ezines *Jacobin *and *MR Online *get a sense of problems caused, when their writers take up a misleading line of argument that denigrates so many important activist struggles in the Ecuadorian Andes and Amazon. From there, over the past few decades, we've all benefited from inspiring community-building, concrete work against extractivism and climate catastrophe, indigenous and eco-feminist - and eco-socialist - ideological advances, anti-racist politics, and ecological stewardship.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     For example, their mass protest in Quito on Wednesday - here's <https://www.aljazeera.com/gallery/2021/2/24/in-pictures-ecuadorean-indigenous-protest-elections> *AlJazeera's *report with stunning photos - keeps the democratic struggle alive, over concerns that votes for the Pachakutik party in the recent presidential election were not properly tallied in the majority of districts.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Please click here <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnmLqU5WOHwE5FKE4ps00TbmtCSCz_MwSAkwQGBrdnXOe23g/viewform?fbzx=-9118106535556794191> to add your name, if you agree: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdnmLqU5WOHwE5FKE4ps00TbmtCSCz_MwSAkwQGBrdnXOe23g/viewform?fbzx=-9118106535556794191
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>     Thanks, muchas gracias!)
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Open Letter to Editors of Jacobin Magazine and Monthly Review:*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> *Stop Racist and Misogynist Attacks on the Emergent Indigenous, Eco-Feminist Left in Latin America, and Address the Crisis in Today's Ecuador*
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> We, the signatories of this letter, have to come together to demand the retraction or clarification of two recent articles that smear political movements and leaders in Ecuador. The gains of Yaku Pérez and the coalition around the Pachakutik party in the 7 February 2021 elections represent an exciting and emergent new left comprised of Indigenous organizations, eco-socialist politics, feminist and LGBTQ+ activists, anti-racist movements, and anti-extractivist causes. On 24 February 2021, these movements came together in the streets of Ecuador, to demand that every vote be counted.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Silencing and discrediting Ecuadoran voices as well as new popular movements—while demanding fealty to state capitalist leaders associated with the extractivist “left” in Ecuador and across the region—must end. Ben Norton’s “How Ecuador’s US-backed, coup-supporting ‘ecosocialist’ candidate Yaku Pérez aids the right-wing,” (republished by the Monthly Review on 8 February 2021) [1] and Denis Rogatyuk’s “Ecuador’s Election Was a Massive Repudiation of Neoliberalism” (published in Jacobin Magazine on 18 February)[2] do not reflect the traditions of Monthly Review—the “longest continuously published socialist magazine in the United States.” [3] Both articles contradict Jacobin’s founders goal to develop a “product of a younger generation not quite as tied to the Cold War paradigms that sustained the old leftist intellectual milieu.” [4] The editors’ openness to new generations is at odds with the sustained offensive against a new Indigenous eco-socialist and feminist political left in Latin America.
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>>>>>>>> Rogatyuk’s article in Jacobin condemns the eco-socialist candidate Pérez and his partner, Manuela Picq, pointing out they “have for years attempted to portray Correa as an anti-Indigenous, anti-environment leader that pursues an ‘extractivist’ model of development.” Yes, they have, as have most independent social scientists who have looked at the wreckage of the Correa legacy. [5] There is a vibrant, Indigenous, and youth-led coalition of leftists who have critiqued Correa’s misuse of “el buen vivir” principles in his policies. These policies nourished new extractive industries. Under Correa, the state criminalized Indigenous groups,[6] LGBTQ+ populations, and exploited new mining resources and areas such as Yasuní.[7]
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Rogatyuk mocks the new left in Ecuador as a “ragbag” and “surreal” group who “absurdly” make claims about the partiality of electoral commissions. Rogatyuk overlooks the extensive and historic struggles of Indigenous identity, genocide and sovereignty, as well as the multiple battles against extractivism and ecological devastation, gendered injustices, political/social misogyny, [8] and homophobia. The article willfully ignores the organizational and social momentum and innovation that fueled Pérez’s electoral success. It ignores these movements’ critiques of extractivist statism and monolithic personalism. Rogatyuk suggested that “Pérez’s political record suggests he is a Trojan horse for the left’s most bitter enemies.”
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>>>>>>>> Similarly, Norton’s Monthly Review article disdainfully dismisses environmentalists, whose critiques of extractivism or racist policies of the statist left he portrayed as “opening up space for the right.” The author singles out “Extinction Rebellion” as a right-wing tool. He rages against the language of “decoloniality” and the eco-socialist left’s critique of statist leaders’ complicity with whiteness and colonial-economic and social legacies. In a typically authoritarian thrust, the article demonizes anyone who allies themselves with NGOs, branding them as supporters of imperialism.
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>>>>>>>> Norton’s widely circulated Monthly Review article aimed at fracturing the left and eroding social movement support for Pérez as an alternative. The piece was published at a crucial moment in the Ecuadorian presidential election. Conventional media outlets have used it to discredit and damage a candidate of the eco-socialist/Indigenous/feminist left. Norton’s article wove together a series of Pérez’s tweets critiquing the statist and extractivist left. Of course, many members of the progressive left, including some of us writing this letter, disagreed with these proclamations as well as Pérez’s support of neoliberal candidates as a strategy to defeat authoritarian elements. But we contextualize these positions.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> The Monthly Review article spotlights Manuela Picq, Pérez’s partner, in a misogynist and homophobic diatribe that mocks and attacks her feminist, queer studies, and eco-social politics. Generating absurd conspiracy narratives, this article designates her body as evidence of Pérez’s imperialist complicity. It stinks of rumor-mongering, noting that she took classes at Princeton in a building named after Ronald Reagan, as if this would prove that she was a stooge of the Reagan administration. At age 25, Picq was part of a civil society dialogue in the FTAA negotiation process where she organized critics of the FTAA. Instead of mentioning this history of radical praxis, she is accused of being a “CIA cutout” and an agent of “billionaire George Soros,” a familiar anti-Semitic accusation. She is also incriminated for teaching classes in queer studies and feminist theory. The author claims that because Picq teaches “Latinx Studies” and “Queering Notions of Modernity,” she is an enemy of global class struggle and complicit with imperialism. Norton does not acknowledge the long list of Picq’s other publications on queer theory, international relations, social movement struggles, or resistance to authoritarianism. Most tellingly, the author does not mention that Picq was arrested and deported from Ecuador by the Correa government for having participated in united Indigenous, feminist, and anti-extractivist protests.[9]
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>>>>>>>> These two articles do not explore in detail the context of Pérez’s political momentum in the organization and revitalization of CONAIE—the Indigenous confederation that led the largest set of protests in Ecuadorian history in October 2019, uniting Indigenous groups, feminists, students, and workers movements to fight back against the imposition of a wrenching IMF accord and to demand the end to ecocidal plunder and land dispossession. This moment consolidated the leadership of a younger generation. CONAIE’s legacy, of uniting movements in October 2019, lent popular and movement support to Pérez’s candidacy and might bring him perhaps to second place in the polling. The article does not mention the historic October 2019 uprising or CONAIE and Pérez’s roles in it.
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>>>>>>>> We are concerned that a significant number of today’s left-wing actors, across the Americas and the world, align themselves with extractivism, agrobusiness, authoritarian statism, [10] and stand against Indigenous, anti-racist, and anti-patriarchal movements, ideas, and leaders. We worry that the former is acting to eject the latter from the conversation by labeling them as right-wingers and allies of imperialism. We should not be distracted from the wave of violent, ultra-racist “populism,” and military and parliamentary coups that have swept the region in the past years. It is exactly these authoritarian developments that make it irresponsible and dangerous to brand those who critique the extractivist left as allies of Yankee imperialists or sympathetic to Bolsonaro-type populists who are encouraging genocide, femicide, racial exterminations, and homophobic assassinations.
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>>>>>>>> We stand against authoritarian statism focusing on individual male populist figures and armed, militarized “machocratic” patriarchy. Against this model, a new progressive alternative for the left has been emerging—led by Indigenous, Black, and feminist as well as class and worker-identified justice movements—to advocate redistribution of wealth, land, and autonomies to forge new modes of collective, bodily, and eco-social participation and rights.
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>>>>>>>> After Ecuador’s 7 February 2021 election, civil society groups across Ecuador raised concerns that an effort was underway to “find votes” needed to bring Lasso’s totals above Pérez’s. This would serve both sides of what Chilean writer Andrés Kogan Valderrama has labeled the “binary” political equation [11] of extractivist left and neoliberal right. Both sides saw Pérez as the most threatening opponent, for he might win and, more than that, dismantle the binary political equation that has been making true redistribution and eco-social justice unimaginable.
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>>>>>>>> The Ecosocialist Feminist Network stated, “We reject the role that ‘Correismo’ [Rafael Correa’s regime] has played in this moment, exacerbating racism and delegitimizing social struggle through media campaigns…We know that the struggle continues and what will be the mobilization and unity of the popular field will permit us to sustain the gains accumulated in October [2019] and resistance against this system of death.” [12]
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>>>>>>>> We deplore the demonization of both Pérez and movements that brought him so close to the run-off election. A left-wing global community deserves better, and we call on the editors of Monthly Review and Jacobin to reject these simplistic and dangerous analyses which feed right wing structures of hate in Latin America.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Signed:
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>>>>>>>> Paul Amar, Professor, Director of Orfalea Center, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>> Sonia Correa, Co-Chair, Sexuality Policy Watch
>>>>>>>> Ghaitai Paul Males Castañeda, Comunidad Indígena de Compañía, Líder Espiritual Cristiano-Andino de Jóvenes
>>>>>>>> Macarena Gómez-Barris, Professor, Pratt Institute
>>>>>>>> Mara Viveros Vigoya, Profesora Titular, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, LASA President (2019-2020)
>>>>>>>> Lisa Duggan, Professor, New York University
>>>>>>>> Cristina Yépez Arroyo, McGill University
>>>>>>>> J. Kehaulani Kauanui, Professor, Wesleyan University
>>>>>>>> William C. Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of Miami
>>>>>>>> Rita Laura Segato, Professor, Universidad Nacional de San Martín, Argentina
>>>>>>>> Pamela Martin, Professor, Coastal Carolina University
>>>>>>>> Mario Pecheny, Professor, University of Buenos Aires
>>>>>>>> Cruz Caridad Bueno, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, SUNY-New Paltz
>>>>>>>> Javiera Barandiaran, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>> Michelle Artieda, Florida International University
>>>>>>>> Mieke Verloo, Professor, Radboud University, The Netherlands
>>>>>>>> Lena Lavinas, Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
>>>>>>>> Sherene R Seikaly, Associate Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>> Gita Sen, DAWN (Development Alternatives with Women for a New Era), Fiji
>>>>>>>> Gloria Careaga, Facultad de Psicología, UNAM, Mexico
>>>>>>>> Rosalind Petchesky, Distinguished Professor Emerita, Hunter College &The Graduate Center, CUNY
>>>>>>>> Rina Pakari Marcillo, Universidad San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador
>>>>>>>> Steve Stein, Senior Professor, University of Miami
>>>>>>>> Markus Thiel, Associate Professor, Florida International University
>>>>>>>> Dominique Chiriboga, Activista Feminista y LGBT, Ecuador
>>>>>>>> Flavio Carrera V., Project Coordinator, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
>>>>>>>> Daniela Cabascango, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales (FLACSO), Ecuador
>>>>>>>> Kiran Asher, UMass, Amherst
>>>>>>>> Carolina Benalcázar, Concordia University
>>>>>>>> Fernando Luz Brancoli, Associate Professor, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro
>>>>>>>> Diana Coryat, Universidad Andina Simon Bolivar, Ecuador
>>>>>>>> Bila Sorj, Professor, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
>>>>>>>> Pablo Ospina Peralta, Docente de la Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Quito, Ecuador
>>>>>>>> Antonia Carcelen-Estrada, Profesora investigadora, Universidad San Francisco de Quito/Northumbria University
>>>>>>>> Jennyfer Masaquiza, Universidad San Francisco de Quito
>>>>>>>> Claudia Sofía Garriga-López, California State University, Chico
>>>>>>>> David Paternotte, Université Libre de Bruxelles
>>>>>>>> Carlos de la Torre, Director, Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
>>>>>>>> Miriam Lang, Professor, Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, Ecuador
>>>>>>>> Carmen Diana Deere, Distinguished Professor Emerita, University of Florida; LASA President (1992-1994)
>>>>>>>> Arturo Escobar, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
>>>>>>>> Guilherme Leite Gonçalves, Professor, Rio de Janeiro State University
>>>>>>>> Johannes Waldmüller, Research Professor, Universidad de Las Américas, EPN
>>>>>>>> Sylvia Cifuentes, University of California, Santa Barbara
>>>>>>>> Larry Lohmann, The Corner House (Environmental and Social Justice), UK
>>>>>>>> Gareth Dale, Brunel University, UK
>>>>>>>> Patrick Bond, University of the Western Cape, South Africa
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Notes
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>>>>>>>> [1] https://mronline.org/2021/02/10/how-ecuadors-u-s-backed-coup-supporting-ecosocialist-candidate-yaku-perez-aids-the-right-wing/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://mronline.org/2021/02/10/how-ecuadors-u-s-backed-coup-supporting-ecosocialist-candidate-yaku-perez-aids-the-right-wing/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNH6DSLbbnioE2TajcNcPkRKg783FQ>
>>>>>>>> [2] https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/ecuador-election-arauz-hervas-perez-neoliberalism <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://jacobinmag.com/2021/02/ecuador-election-arauz-hervas-perez-neoliberalism&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNFATFqPvmTD8G-MpaSfaihES-4Ciw>
>>>>>>>> [3]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review#:~:text=The%20Monthly%20Review%2C%20established%20in,magazine%20in%20the%20United%20States <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monthly_Review%23:~:text%3DThe%2520Monthly%2520Review%252C%2520established%2520in,magazine%2520in%2520the%2520United%2520States&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNH5vNizEqnQR5yBg5peEM9SG5Nl4A>.
>>>>>>>> [4] https://web.archive.org/web/20190711101435/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://web.archive.org/web/20190711101435/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNHyI-hUSJ_cJWNFuftzznKs39YbSg>http://idiommag.com/2011/03/no-short-cuts-interview-with-the-jacobin/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=http://idiommag.com/2011/03/no-short-cuts-interview-with-the-jacobin/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNGs-u1-QLXbues5YjlXPtSrW3m9Tg>
>>>>>>>> [5]There is extensive literature that examines how the period of Rafael Correa's government as a time of impunity and human rights violations. See: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8675.12117 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/1467-8675.12117&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNGPnGGU8S0OLSO1Ivdi4tMQfK-qBA>
>>>>>>>> [6] In 2017, CONAIE fought to get amnesty for all activists of the indigenous movement who had been prosecuted and sentenced for protesting Correa’s government and Chinese mining companies, and defending water resources. The government misused anti-terrorism laws dating from the 1970s military dictatorship to incarcerate indigenous leaders protesting extractivism. At that time, 98 individuals faced criminal prosecutions for resistance to authority, terrorism, sabotage, etc. See: https://www.planv.com.ec/historias/politica/conaie-la-lucha-la-amnistia <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.planv.com.ec/historias/politica/conaie-la-lucha-la-amnistia&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNGH9FzyaNixXps6Cs4JrL8MgzP3ew>
>>>>>>>> and https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-22656374 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-22656374&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNHi01lc6HNqxwiFlQFqeB-c-gnlDQ>
>>>>>>>> [7] See: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2013/oct/15/ecuador-president-misleading-yasuni <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.theguardian.com/environment/andes-to-the-amazon/2013/oct/15/ecuador-president-misleading-yasuni&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586706000&usg=AFQjCNHQz1eOO-S4MVqRK9MQrxr7xVDNqQ>
>>>>>>>> [8] Correa’s sabatinas, weekly speeches televised in different locations around the country on Saturdays, were spaces which could last up to three hours. There he presented his visions and proposals, and attacked citizens, journalists, human rights activists, academics, and environmentalists. The Media Observatory of Ecuador (OME) has counted 95 grievances against women and for sexist language in the 152 Correa’s weekly speeches between 2013 and 2016.
>>>>>>>> See: https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/23/planeta_futuro/1495560980_079621.html <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/23/planeta_futuro/1495560980_079621.html&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNGY4tqopUGkPYiVQY6WsLi8X_mWcw>
>>>>>>>> On Saturday December 28, 2013, one of the last during Correa’s first administration, the former president criticized "gender ideology." On the same occasion, Correa affirmed “defending the traditional family” and declared opposition to abortion "has nothing to do with the left or the right," but are simple “moral issues.” See full video here: https://youtu.be/ODXFdqtGsyo?t=6341 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://youtu.be/ODXFdqtGsyo?t%3D6341&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNGts6kNZWonKqefH8DuK6vQ7Cs7vA>
>>>>>>>> [9] See: https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-manuela-picq <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://www.frontlinedefenders.org/en/case/case-history-manuela-picq&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNHOHQ7nBgmPkOD2009IlNF21_R-uw>
>>>>>>>> [10] In 2013, Rafael Correa issued Executive Decree No. 16 to control NGOs and establish limitations on the independent and autonomous functioning of unions and social organizations. The decree was harshly criticized by local and international organizations. https://sobrevivientes.planv.com.ec/decreto-16-y-las-amenazas-a-las-ong/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://sobrevivientes.planv.com.ec/decreto-16-y-las-amenazas-a-las-ong/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNGAdJkmotUu_c_Moe1_IylpaYJhQA>
>>>>>>>> Correa arbitrarily punished journalists who did not agree with him and actively attacked indigenous environmental activists who opposed oil and gas extraction or open-pit mining on their lands. https://rsf.org/en/news/what-future-free-speech-ecuador-after-presidential-election <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://rsf.org/en/news/what-future-free-speech-ecuador-after-presidential-election&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNG8ImNkwCk0rXvwRJBrdPGFpFTqEA>https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0418-new-report-shines-light-on-dark-days-for-amazon-earth-defenders-in-ecuador <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://amazonwatch.org/news/2018/0418-new-report-shines-light-on-dark-days-for-amazon-earth-defenders-in-ecuador&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNHj_akYz_M9_A1A8n2Fa_NMGvWUYQ>
>>>>>>>> [11] https://oplas.org/sitio/2021/02/14/andres-kogan-valderrama-yaku-perez-y-el-fin-de-los-binarismos/ <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://oplas.org/sitio/2021/02/14/andres-kogan-valderrama-yaku-perez-y-el-fin-de-los-binarismos/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNHNmSheRwkDSAfxJaSL96SxkiPe7A>
>>>>>>>> [12] https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article7033 <https://www.google.com/url?q=https://internationalviewpoint.org/spip.php?article7033&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1614312586707000&usg=AFQjCNHSu_nLbOaXY48wKdh6lRjTI8xbIA>
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>>>>>>>> Jai Sen
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>>>>>>>> Independent researcher, editor; Senior Fellow at the School of International Development and Globalisation Studies at the University of Ottawa
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>>>>>>>> jai.sen at cacim.net & jsen at uottawa.ca
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>>>>>>>> Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – *The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance*.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
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>>>>>> jai.sen at cacim.net & jsen at uottawa.ca
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>>>>>> Now based in Ottawa, Canada, on unsurrendered Anishinaabe territory (+1-613-282 2900) and in New Delhi, India (+91-98189 11325)
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>>>>>> *Check out something new** – including for copies of the first two books below, at a discount, and much more : **The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>*
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>>>>>> Jai Sen, ed, 2017 – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?*.  New Delhi : OpenWord and Oakland, CA : PM Press.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
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>>>>>> Jai Sen, ed, 2018a – *The Movements of Movements, Part 2 : Rethinking Our Dance*.  Ebook and hard copy available at PM Press <http://www.pmpress.org/>; hard copy only also at The Movements of Movements <https://movementsofmovements.net/>
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>>>>>> Jai Sen, ed, 2018b – *The Movements of Movements, Part 1 : What Makes Us Move ?*  (Indian edition). New Delhi : AuthorsUpfront, in collaboration with OpenWord and PM Press.  Hard copy available at MOM1AmazonIN <https://www.amazon.in/dp/9387280101/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1522884070&sr=8-2&keywords=movements+of+movements+jai+sen>, MOM1Flipkart <https://www.flipkart.com/the-movements-of-movements/p/itmf3zg7h79ecpgj?pid=9789387280106&lid=LSTBOK9789387280106NBA1CH&marketplace=FLIPKART&srno=s_1_1&otracker=search&fm=SEARCH&iid=ff35b702-e6a8-4423-b014-16c84f6f0092.9789387280106.SEARCH&ppt=Search%20Page>, and MOM1AUpFront <http://www.authorsupfront.com/movements.htm>
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