The Continuing War Against Timazewaltin
When the famous explorer was born in 1451, his parents named him “Cristoforo Columbo,” not “Christopher Columbus.” The Columbo family were among the middle class in
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October 14, 2013 // 0 Comments
Sixty-five years ago today, in a remote part of Great Britain, George Orwell was finishing his prescient novel, 1984. At the same moment a continent away in Hollywood, an
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October 12, 2013 // 0 Comments
Scouring media outlets nationwide, it is evident that Operation Streamline – which was shut down by human rights activists on Oct 11 in Tucson – remains “America’s
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October 12, 2013 // 0 Comments
Racial profiling has been a constant in the news in recent months, thanks to revelations and lawsuits about the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk policy and
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October 11, 2013 // 0 Comments
As an archaeologist, I welcome the news that “[t]rade unions in Canada, the United States and Mexico are preparing protests and legal action against the Mexican subsidiary
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October 10, 2013 // 0 Comments
On the left side of the courtroom, 60 to 70 short, dark-brown men and a few women are seated, handcuffed and shackled from the wrists, waist and ankles. All are silent. They
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October 9, 2013 // 0 Comments
When César Chávez was asked what he thought about the term la raza, he answered the question with a question, asking, what was wrong with the indigenous race? The word raza
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October 7, 2013 // 0 Comments
Though more than three years have passed since the Arizona-based Minuteman organization run by movement co-founder Chris Simcox shuttered its operations, would-be vigilantes
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September 30, 2013 // 0 Comments
Eighteen million Americans were “food insecure” in the United States in 2012. The Great Recession has increased the number of Americans who do not have sufficient food by
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September 27, 2013 // 0 Comments
Just one day after tens of thousands people took to the streets of Vancouver in support of reconciliation, the Nanaimo Daily News once again published a racist rant making it
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September 25, 2013 // 0 Comments