Many people in Mexico and Latin America are organizing alternative ways of assuring their livelihood and that of their communities. There are numerous examples of people in urban areas promoting local activities, small workshops, and organizing cooperative and markets for local exchanges...

In the context of the prevailing abundance of diversity (biological, ethnic), the profound social inequalities, and the trends and attitudes of hegemonic forces in Latin America, a coherent process of environmental governance is proving difficult and environmental injustice is aggravated....

Numerous social groups are explicitly rejecting their integration into the proletarian organization of production as part of the process of capitalist accumulation. In its place they are proposing and implementing self-directed social and political systems with their own productive and ecosystem...