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On August 9, 2001, in Colombia, riot police and private security forces from the Cerrejón coal mine — one of the largest…
Aviva Chomsky
Aviva Chomsky is a prolific American historian, author, and activist, and has been active in Latin American solidarity and immigrants’ rights issues since the 1980s. She currently teaches at Salem State University in Massachusetts, where she is also the coordinator of the Latin American studies program. She previously was a research associate at Harvard University, where she specialized in Caribbean and Latin American history. Her book West Indian Workers and the United Fruit Company in Costa Rica 1870–1940 was awarded the 1997 Best Book Prize by the New England Council of Latin American Studies. She is also the author of many other books like Linked Labor Histories: New England, Colombia, and the Making of a Global Working Class. Her articles on immigration rights have appeared in The Nation, HuffPost and and TomDispatch.
Immigration has been a touchstone of United States political debates for decades, and several cities claim to be at a “breaking point”…
Aviva Chomsky is a prolific American historian, author, and activist. She currently teaches at Salem State University in Massachusetts, where she is…
Aviva Chomsky reviews of More Than A Wall, by David Bacon “We died in your hills, we died in your deserts, /…
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The recent protests in Cuba provoked a predictable slew of blanket denunciations of “the Left.” But we can’t understand what’s going on in Cuba without looking at the U.S. role
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DNA, Race, and Native Rights