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Confused About Genocide in Guatemala? Apparently You’re Not Alone
Grave questions should be raised about the motives of those challenging the grim reality of genocide.
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Brutal Dictator Rios Montt Gets off on a Technicality
For a while it looked as if Rios Montt would be the exception in Latin American history, where so many dictators have evaded punishment for the horrors committed under …
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Unlikely Coalition on Immigration Reform Rose Rapidly
Whatever one thinks of the current immigration bill, the strange bedfellows coalition that gives it momentum provides a stunning example of grassroots organizing for change.
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Justice Postponed in Guatemala: Rios Montt and the United States Evade Reckoning With the Past
The world is witnessing the gradual establishment of new standards of accountability across borders.
Kerry Kennedy and Farmworkers to Decry Wendy’s at Manhattan Stockholders Meeting
This morning, Kerry Kennedy, human rights leaders, and an interfaith group of a dozen clergy, joined the Coalition of Immokalee Workers in front of Wendy's corporate shareholders meeting in …
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The Path to Illegalization and the Invisibility of the State
Mariame's post (linked here) on anti-blackness prompted some further reflection on militarization and also on merit-based immigration, extending the question of who and what is rendered invisible. One of …
Coalition of Immokalee Workers Targets Wendy’s in Fair Food Campaign to Improve Wages, Conditions
Hundreds of farm workers and their supporters are in New York City ahead of Wendyu2019s shareholder meeting to demand improved working conditions for those who pick its tomatoes.
Congressional Briefing Urges Obama to Use His Authority to Close Guantánamo
Today, as the majority of men detained at Guantánamo enter their fourth month on hunger strike in protest of their indefinite detention, the Center for Constitutional Rights participated in …
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The Casualties of Justice
A scathing new report and data from a growing chorus of experts suggests Jim Crow is far from over.
Monitoring of AP Phones a “Terrifying” Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades.