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Bolivia: General Strike Protests Crackdown on Native March
Bolivia’s main trade union declared a 24-hour general strike Wednesday to protest Sunday’s police crackdown on indigenous demonstrators who were protesting the construction of a road through a pristine rainforest preserve.
A Contrast in Discourses: Sicilia and the Peace Caravan in Oaxaca
The Annihilating Language of the Left Meets the Language of Humanity of Drug War Victims
More GM crops in Puerto Rico, why we should worry
The US-based Monsanto company, the world’s biggest seed company and undisputed world leader in agricultural biotechnology, announced in June 2011 that it would increase its activities in Puerto Rico.
Bolivia suspends road project after indigenous protest
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has suspended plans to build a major highway through indigenous peoples’ land in the Amazon rainforest.
Painkillers and pens used to placate Peru’s Indians as gas giants move in
Half of the Nahua died after their land was first opened up by Shell for oil exploration in the 1980s.
Photo Essay – A Clash of Classes: Chilean Students Fight for a Better Education System
Masked demonstrators throw rocks at police vehicles nicknamed ‘guanacos’ after the species of llamas who spits with angry.
Mexico: Peace Movement Meets Zapatistas
“The government betrayed you, and we, without realising what you had shown us, fell back into the state’s game of government corruption and the pretence of a democratic transition. As a result of that forgetfulness, the social fabric of the nation was torn even more,” Sicilia told the Zapatistas in Oventic.
Undocumented, Unafraid and Unashamed!
The Northwest Immigrant Youth Alliance Comes out of the Shadows at the Tacoma, Washington Detention Center.
4 Artists Who Are Reshaping America’s Immigration Debate
While the detention complex continues to balloon and the Obama administration has tallied up more than one million deportations while states pass increasingly restrictive anti-immigrant laws, artists are redefining the fight by using culture as a weapon.