A U.S. trade deal with Colombia may just have been signed, but foreign investment projects have already cost Afro-Colombians their land and…
W hile the turmoil in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca was in the headlines last fall for weeks, little media coverage…
In 1947, Woody Guthrie wrote a song about the crash of a plane carrying Mexican immigrant farm workers back to the border.…
At 8:30 AM on October 21, 2002, Oaxaca state police arrested a dangerous schoolteacher. Romualdo Juan Gutierrez Cortez was pulled over as…
N o! That’s what hundreds of thousands of people were saying as they came out of their homes into the streets all…
T oday the U.S./Mexico border is the subject of intense political controversy. Most of the fireworks focuses, however, on the idea that…
Equality has become an unmentionable word in Congress.It doesn’t come even once in the 300-page omnibus immigration bill introduced last week by…
O n February 18 Ali Hassan Abd (Abu Fahad), a leader of the al-Daura oil refinery’s union, was walking home from work…
The House of Representatives has just passed HR 4437, by Wisconsin Republican James Sensenbrenner, incredibly with the votes of over 30 Democrats.…
SAN FRANCISCO, CA – In Chicago’s cavernous Navy Yard convention center, delegates were lined up at the four microphones scattered across the…
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