Justicia Para Berta and Chrystia Freeland

Indigenous activists: Activists gathered outside Liberal MP Chrystia Freeland office in downtown Toronto on March 11 to voice their solidarity with Indigenous activists and environmentalists, as well as to condemn the assassination of Indigenous Honduran activist Berta Cáceres. "The government killed her!" shouted the audience, as people waved signs the read, "Justicia Para Berta" and "Justice for Berta, Safety for Gustavo." Cáceres was an Indigenous Lenca environmentalist who grew up amidst the waves of violence that erupted in Central America during the 1980s, according to Rabble. While her mother, an activist and midwife, offered refugees from El Salvador a safe home, as a youth Cáceres was taught how powerful activism could truly be. Chip in to keep stories like these coming. Becoming a student activist in 1993, Cáceres co-founded the National Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras to address the increasing political and environmental threats faced by Lenca communities. Gustavo Castro Soto, director of the NGO Otros Mundos and coordinator of organization Friends of the Earth Mexico, was wounded in the attack. On March 3 gunmen broke into Cáceres' home and murdered her "barely a week after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project," reports The Guardian. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.