āTell our story!ā the man in the checkpoint cage yelled, in English. He and a crowd of Palestinian Muslim men were jammed…
As the bus was taking our accompaniment delegation to Honduras to the airport for our return home, it stopped by the offices…
I didnāt go to Cuba to be a tourist. I went to be part of a resistance to the longstanding U.S. war…
I had a sense of the danger our Mexican and Central American brothers and sisters must feel as I stumbled through the uneven and gravelly scrub full of mesquite, yucca, cactus and other spiny vegetation
How can Christians ā or people of any faith, or no faith, for that matter ā reconcile themselves to the militarization and victimization taking place in our borderlands, in our names?
What we are seeing now on the West Bank is not so much a unique intifada as yet another courageous expression of resistance to the occupation
The parallels between the African American prisoners caught in the U.S. injustice system and the Muslim prisoners in GuantƔnamo (all of them are and always have been Muslim) are clear: racism & Islamophobia
The danger for the people of Guatemala did not end with the Peace Accords in 1996. It has simply been transformed into a more endemic neoliberal method
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