The Continuing War Against Timazewaltin
In 1620, the English ship Mayflower landed on the North American coast off-loading some 100 Puritan religious fanatics (the so-called “Pilgrims”) in the middle of the New
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November 21, 2012 // 0 Comments
This is the sort of racist bullshit that we have to deal with year-round. Interesting how it remains totally acceptable to demean, trivialize, appropriate and trash
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November 20, 2012 // 0 Comments
The words by the 2012 Republican presidential candidate reflecting on his losing campaign reverberated around the nation: “The Obama campaign was following the old playbook
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November 19, 2012 // 0 Comments
I have been an activist for over fifty years so I can safely say that I have participated in my share of controversies. I remember some that were particularly acrimonious.
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November 15, 2012 // 0 Comments
“We are not responsible for climate change—it’s the big industries that are,” said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador
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November 14, 2012 // 0 Comments
“A lot of angry, militant white men on the border sitting like hunters,” a former detective warns, as the number of unsolved murders piles up. The mountains near
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November 8, 2012 // 0 Comments
“This is not Cabañas,” said Shandur Kuátzin Makwilkali, gesturing around the room and out the window at the wooded slope, but meaning the entire region of that
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November 7, 2012 // 0 Comments
On the 31st of October and the 1st of November, members of the Oaxaca state police, the auxiliary police and plain clothes individuals on motorcycles escorted the workers and
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November 6, 2012 // 0 Comments
By now, in these last remaining days before the election of 2012, we have learned enough about the beliefs of the Republican presidential candidate to see them as a worldview
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November 5, 2012 // 0 Comments
Ever since I read Stuart Chase’s “The Tyranny of Words” as an undergraduate I have been obsessed with the meaning of words, although I must admit that S.I. Hayakawa’s
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November 1, 2012 // 0 Comments