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After an Assassination, the World Stands in Solidarity With the Zapatistas
On May 18, solidarity actions were held in New York City and in San Cristu00f3bal de las Casas, Mexico, to protest the recent assassination of Zapatista Josu00e9 Luis Solu00eds …
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Lakota Vow: ‘Dead or in Prison Before We Allow the KXL Pipeline’
President Obama is scheduled to be make a final decision on the pipeline by the middle of 2014.
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After Slowdown, Global Fight for Land Rights at Tipping Point
Global trends towards a strengthening of legal rights over land for local and indigenous communities appear to have slowed significantly in recent years.
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Mexicans March To Oppose NAFTA, Defend Their Oil
On NAFTA's 20th anniversary, thousands in Mexico demonstrated against education, labor “reforms”, attacks on indigenous rights by multinational mining companies and privatization of the oil and electricity industries.
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Saving Children From Loggers
Sexual exploitation of minors by foreign logging workers has been identified in four of the nine provinces in the Solomon Islands, namely Makira, Isabel, Western and Malaita.
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COP19 Promotes Carbon Colonialism With New REDD+ Deal
REDD+ jeopardizes the rights and resources of local communities throughout the global south, because of the prevalence of carbon-market-driven land grabs.
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Until the President Stops Deportations, We Will Stop Them Ourselves
The prison is run by Corrections Corporation of America, whose reported revenue has doubled throughout the 2000s as the federal government has contracted it to hold an increasing number …
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Protectors vs. Destroyers – Canadians Unite to Stop Fracking in New Brunswick
For the past two weeks, an unprecedented coalition of Acadians, Anglophones and members of the Elsipogtog First Nation have blockaded a compound in the Canadian town of Rexton, New …
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Thirty Dreamers Cross US-Mexico Border as Immigration Battle Escalates
The migrant justice movement is increasingly articulating a very clear message: Birth place doesnu2019t determine where home is.
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Mexico Imprisons US Citizen Who Fought Corruption
A US citizen languishes in a Mexican prison with no access to her lawyers or the US consul. Charged with no crime, she is apparently guilty of uncovering government …