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Haiti: Crisis and Resolution
There is a grave crisis in contemporary Haitian society, in which the masses of our people are opposing an oligarchy determined to perpetuate a system…
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American Thanksgiving, Another Massacre, as Migrants Face “Lethal Force” at US Border
Tara Copp The White House late Tuesday signed a memo allowing troops stationed at the border to engage in some law enforcement roles and use…
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Black November: “Our Greatest Resistance is Our Life” By Wesley Lima
Negra, a Pernambuco woman, a trans woman and elected São Paulo state deputy for the Socialism and Freedom Party (PSOL), Erica Malunguinho, is certainly one…
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Nauru Government Condemns Mentally Traumatized Individuals to Life-long Anguish by Rene Wadlow
The Government of Nauru, the small Pacific island State, has expelled the medical and psychological personnel of the international non-governmental organization Médecins Sans…
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A Record 207 Environmental Activists Were Killed Last Year. More than 200 environmental activists were killed in 2017, according to the latest report from global rights watchdog Global Witness. By Lorraine Chow
More than 200 environmental activists were killed in 2017, according to the latest report from global rights watchdog Global Witness. The troubling report revealed that…
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HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth
HAITI RISES: A TIME FOR SOLIDARITY by Nia Imara and Robert Roth Haiti Rises: A Time for Solidarity was first published in February 2016. Since…
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SA carries cross of South-South cooperation
SEPTEMBER 12 is perhaps one of the less celebrated international days, it is the United Nations (UN) Day for South-South Cooperation – a notion of…
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Imperialism’s Junior Partners By Patrick Bond
Dilma Rousseff and Jacob Zuma at the 2014 BRICS summit in Brazil. GovernmentZA / Flickr Our new issue, “Between the Risings,” is out now. To…
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EXCLUSIVE: Brazil, the World’s Second-Largest Black Nation, Has Been Taken Over by an All White Male Cabinet — Here’s What’s at Stake for Its Afro-Descendants
source: atlantablackstar Michel Temer and his new cabinet ministers.Photograph by Bloomberg Bloomberg via Getty Images Brazil has the fifth-largest population and the sixth-largest…
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Haiti’s Election Verification Commission: A Step in the Right Direction By Marilyn Langlois
6 May 2016 – On a visit to Haiti in late April with Task Force on the Americas, a California-based organization in solidarity with the social…
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Rest in Power Toussaint L’Ouverture: Saluting Haiti’s Triumph against Colonialism By Richard Sudan
7 Apr 2016 – April 7th marks the passing of one of the greatest, most revered and most important figures of African and world history, Toussaint…
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