By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) Mass incarceration in the United States is a crime against humanity. It disproportionately ruins the lives of Black, Brown and Indigenous peoples. It wastes human potential. It destabilizes neighborhoods and destroys communities. We all pay dearly for it, in human as well as economic terms. Both at its roots and…
By Camille Landry (Program Coordinator) Introduction The United States is a contradiction. From the stirring words of the Declaration of Independence and the Preamble to the Constitution to the Statue of Liberty beckoning the “huddled masses yearning to breathe free,” the U.S. trumpets to the world – and does not hesitate to export at gunpoint…
Real solidarity with Bolivia’s Indigenous popular democracy requires us to do more than celebrate its revival. We must work to demilitarize U.S. foreign policy. By Natalia Burdyńska Schuurman (Program Coordinator) In October of 2020, the Movement Towards Socialism (acronymed MAS in Spanish) returned to power 11 months after the U.S.-backed far-right coup regime of Jeanine…
by Natalia Burdyńska Schuurman (intern) A nationwide uprising of unprecedented proportions triggered by the police murder of George Floyd has swept the U.S. in thousands of cities and towns, large and small, across all 50 states. This surge of mass resistance around issues of racial injustice, occurring against the backdrop of a major public health…
From Jordan to the Philippines, countries across the world are following America’s lead and militarizing their borders By Todd Miller (independent journalist) Republished from The Nation The driver of the passenger van pulled onto the shoulder of the road, looked back, and said, “there’s an immigration checkpoint up ahead. Does everyone have their papers?” We…
And that’s an underestimate By Todd Miller (independent journalist) Republished from The Nation At first, I thought I had inadvertently entered an active war zone. I was on a lonely two-lane road in southern New Mexico heading for El Paso, Texas. Off to the side of the road, hardly concealed behind some desert shrubs, I…
Border walls are being erected left and right as natural disasters become more frequent, leaving victims with nowhere to go By Todd Miller (independent journalist) Republished from The Nation When I first talked to the three Honduran men in the train yard in the southern Mexican town of Tenosique, I had no idea that they…
