What’s Behind Trump’s Obsession with Bashing Mexico?
August 4, 2017
Mexico's President Peña Nieto and Donald Trump finally meet at the G20. And it does not
go well.
Tag: NORTH AMERICA
United States, A Nightmare for Young People Who Flee from Gangs
August 2, 2017
The only solution Trump’s government has devised for the problem of immigration and the people who remain undocumented in the United States is deportation. However, this medicine may be more dangerous than the illness itself.
Estados Unidos, la pesadilla americana de los jóvenes que huyen de las pandillas
July 31, 2017
El “Sueño Americano” de muchos adolescentes que llegan a Estados Unidos poco a poco se convierte en una pesadilla. Muchos sufren exclusiones, persecución de pandillas, marginalización y criminalización, porque ahora el gobierno del presidente Trump los presenta como inmigrantes criminales.
Hope Springs from the People’s Summit
June 26, 2017
There were many hundreds of young people who traveled from all over the country to be part of the People’s Summit. To be part of the change, because NO is not enough.
Fear and Resistance on the Border of Trump America
May 18, 2017
The Caravan Against Fear set out from Sacramento April 10 in eight white vans that carried some fifty people, most of us strangers before the trip. We traced the border from California to Texas and back again, and learned about friendship, solidarity and resistance on the border of Trump America.
Early Dakota Access Pipeline Spill Angers Tribal Chairs
May 18, 2017
Tribal chairmen decried the newly finished Dakota Access Pipeline when reports surfaced that its first crude oil spill in South Dakota occurred even before the private infrastructure project went into service.
Fighting Fear, Hundreds Join Border Caravan For Migrant Rights
April 12, 2017
Union members, migrants, government officials and grassroots organizers chanted and marched before stepping up to the mike in the shadow of the Federal Building in Sacramento to tell their stories and make promises. The Caravan against Fear is under way in California.
Fighting for Indigenous Rights, from the UN to Yaqui Territory and Standing Rock
November 16, 2016
The basic principle at the core of demands of indigenous peoples at Standing Rock and at Loma de Bacum has been supported internationally by two former UN Special Rapporteurs for Indigenous Rights, and recently endorsed by the current Rapporteur, Victoria Tauli Corpus. That principle states that governments must ensure that companies consult with indigenous peoples prior to launching megaprojects and was first set out in the 2007 UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
Detained in Dilley
June 23, 2016
Dilley is home to a state prison and, since March 2015, the South Texas Family Residential Center, the largest family immigration detention center in the country. The women and children detained there have fled from Central America, South America, and as far away as Syria.
Puerto Rico: Who Really Owes Whom?
June 18, 2016
Touted as a bipartisan compromise to the Puerto Rico debt crisis, a bill advancing in the U.S. Congress proposes establishing a Michigan-style financial control […]