Apartheid Housing Posed as Solution to Climate Vulnerability in Chiapas
“…you see clearly that the architects have no idea, no vision.”
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Leader for the displaced killed in Cordoba, northern Colombia
A leader of a group of peasants reclaiming land they were forced to leave by illegal armed groups, was assassinated in northern Colombia said the human rights ombudsman Wednesday.
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New Video: On Mothers’ Day, Some Families Under Siege
Across the country, migrant communities and the families that make them up have been roiled by the wave of criminalization that comes in the form of police/ICE collaborations and Arizona-style copycat bills.
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Guatemala’s Crippled Peace Process: A Look Back on the 1996 Peace Accords
Even with years of attention by the United Nations, Guatemala continues to be far from achieving the stability envisioned in the original peace agreement. As Guatemala approaches the fifteen year anniversary of the Peace Accords this December, the country remains just as far from implementing the Peace Accords as it had been when the agreement was first signed
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Rebellion in the Brazilian Amazon
More than 80,000 workers all over the country paralyzed the work of “progress” in the form of hydroelectric plants, refineries, and thermoelectric generating facilities.
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Community Radio Stations: The Voice of Honduran Resistance
Community radio is not just a social and political commitment to ‘give voice to the voiceless’—rather it is the shared property of a community, which articulates itself as a whole through the mics.
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Anti-Drug War Movement Emerges in Mexico
After four years of war that has left nearly 40,000 people dead, countless more disappeared, and soldiers on the streets of every state in the country, many Mexicans are finally “fed up” with President Felipe Calderón’s drug policy.
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Open Season on Teachers in Honduras
Honduran security forces are now using tear gas canisters as a deadly weapon, not just against protesters but also against journalists identified with the opposition.
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Tucson Students Storm Meeting, Delay Vote on Ethnic Studies
Arizona’s attempt to dismantle Tucson’s ethnic studies program was dealt a blow Tuesday when students rose up and took over a school board meeting where a resolution to determine the fate of the program was up for discussion.
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FTA advances as Colombia fulfills US requirements
If everything continues as planned, the U.S. Congress will discuss and vote on ratification of the agreement within the next two months.
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