Politics
A judge lodged a second genocide charge against a former Guatemalan dictator on Monday accusing him in the massacre of more than 200 villagers. The charge came just months
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May 22, 2012 // 0 Comments
The independent documentary feature We Women Warriors follows three Native women caught between government and rebel forces. Through them the feature-length film in the
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May 21, 2012 // 0 Comments
Journalists are being killed, wounded and threatened at an alarming rate in Mexico since the US/Mexican war on drugs accelerated into a bloodbath of deaths, wounding and
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May 21, 2012 // 0 Comments
This year, for the first time in the history of the United Nations, the UN has decided to open an investigation on the US Government’s former and current treatment of
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May 21, 2012 // 0 Comments
With an ethnic studies ban now in place in Arizona’s public and charter schools, many Native Americans in the state who live off-reservation are wondering where they can
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May 18, 2012 // 0 Comments
The national movement looked local with an Earth Day action that took over a long-disputed tract of land in California’s East Bay and turned it into a community farm
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May 18, 2012 // 0 Comments
Alabama’s HB 56 was already the harshest state immigration law in the nation. But in the waning hours of the state’s 2012 legislative session and above the din of
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May 18, 2012 // 0 Comments
Now that Mitt Romney is the presumptive nominee of the Republican Party, the media is already handicapping the presidential election big time, and the neck-and-neck opinion
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May 17, 2012 // 0 Comments
As a teenager two decades ago, Ruth Buendía saw the Asháninka communities in Peru’s central Amazonian lowlands torn apart by violence as the Shining Path guerrillas
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May 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
Jose Barahona says that he would have been killed had he refused to open his door when the armed guerillas occupying his town demanded he let them use his kitchen and sleep
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May 15, 2012 // 0 Comments