(CNN) -- Peru's Congress voted Wednesday to suspend indefinitely a controversial law that has created tension between President Alan Garcia's government and indigenous communities in the Amazon, the state-run Andina news agency reported.

The vote to suspend the Forestry and Wildlife Law and repeal another related law came days after clashes between indigenous citizens and national police left more than 30 dead and 50 wounded in northwest Peru.

By Asiya Wadud

By Alex Perrotti

Keeping chickens for their eggs is becoming increasingly common, even in cities. As people become more concerned with the quality and sources of their food, interest in home food production is growing. Chickens produce delicious fresh eggs, with the added bonus of eating scraps and weeds and producing manure for the garden. Some people even find their clucking and scratching soothing.

By Karla Peña

America’s food system is broken. Many Americans are not getting enough to eat as witnessed by the 12% increase in school lunch enrollment during 2008. Food Banks across the U.S. are experiencing longer lines, less donated food and, at times, empty shelves. And some people are going home hungry because they can’t get to their local food pantry during pantry hours.

By Tamara Wattnem

Venezuela donated one hundred tractors to Honduran peasants as part of the benefits of the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the Caribbean (ALBA in Spanish). In a speech given during the event in which Honduran peasants received the tractors, Honduran President Manuel Zelaya claimed that these tractors represent the weapons that will transform Honduras through its ALBA membership. Zelaya also criticized the businessmen and mass media owners who opposed Honduras joining the ALBA.

By Frances Lambrick

Detroit residents are fighting to keep the water in their taps. The campaign has been gaining momentum over a decade, and is now seeking 30,000 signatures to transform Detroit’s water policy.

By Frances Lambrick

The economic crisis has precipitated a wave of community action—from strikes in France to local food exchanges in groups across the U.S. A new mechanism to discuss the roots of our economic problems and their ecological counterparts has sprung up in the form of common security clubs. In the face of the dominant economic attitude of ‘each for his own’, this trend represents a deeply powerful switch in focus toward community over credit.

By Karla Peña

On the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10, 2008, the indigenous people of Raposa Serra do Sol in the Brazilian state of Roraima celebrated a victory against encroaching farmers, cattle ranchers and local politicians who are attempting to overturn the constitutional right for indigenous land democratization. Brazil’s president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva granted territorial protection of the land in 2005, but was quickly challenged by the non-native economic beneficiaries of the land.

by Alex Perrotti

Small farmers in the region of Santiago del Estero, Argentina have begun publishing a newspaper giving voice to their struggle against the encroachment of large-scale soy agribusiness on their lands. The first printing circulated 4000 issues of “El Ashpulito” (Quechua for “Full of Earth”) and documents the abuses and issues facing the nearly 9000 families who make up the Campesino Movement of Santiago del Estero (MOCASE).

by Jasmine Tilley

Walsh—a tiny town on the southeast corner of Colorado made up of about 700 people—was recently featured in an NPR series entitled “Take me to your Leader.” Included in this segment is the story of how the town’s company-owned grocery store became a co-op owned by the community itself.