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Final whistle for 514 families as Haitian government illegally closes stadium camp

By Beatrice Lindstrom, Human rights lawyer and Lawyers’ Earthquake Response Network (LERN) Fellow at the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti/ Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, This post was co-authored by Jocelyn Brooks, who is an Ella Baker associate at the Center for Constitutional Rights, based at the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux (BAI) in Port-au-Prince, [...]

A Holiday Sampler of What Wikileaks Reveals about the US Human rights advocates have significant new sources of information to hold the United States accountable.  The transparency, which Wikileaks has brought about, unveils many cover-ups of injustices in US relations with Honduras, Spain, Thailand, UK and Yemen over issues of torture at Guantanamo, civilian casualties [...]

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“If it gets any worse,” said Wilda, a homeless Haitian mother, “we’re not going to survive.” Mothers and grandmothers surrounding her nodded solemnly. We are in a broiling “tent” with a group of women trying to raise their families in a public park. Around the back of the Haitian National Palace, the park hosts a [...]

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Race has always played a role in labeling some people as worthy and others as undeserving of legal protections and access to justice. This has been the case whether the person in question is an alleged perpetrator of harm or an alleged victim. Collective thinking of this kind ultimately confers or takes away rights based [...]

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The Haudenosaunee right of return

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by: Steven Newcomb For some 30 years, the Haudenosaunee (People of the Longhouse), often known as the Six Nations Confederation, have been accustomed to traveling internationally from and back to North America on Haudenosaunee passports. Now, however, the United States government has evidently taken issue with the Haudenosaunee passports. As a result, the Iroquois Nationals lacrosse team has been delayed from its [...]

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A few years ago I had the privilege of visiting Equatorial Guinea, a small country on the Central West African coast.  In the capital city of Malabo I met incredible women and men persevering to feed, clothe, and educate their children on less than on dollar per day.  Most suffered from malaria and typhoid fever, [...]

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This essay first appeared in the Mississippi Chicken DVD insert.  Reprinted with permission of the author and filmmaker. By Steve Striffler, Professor of Anthropology and Geography, University of New Orleans Mississippi Chicken is a true gem.  By letting us into the lives of immigrant poultry workers in Mississippi, this documentary captures much of what defines [...]

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Agents of the United States are openly trying to assassinate Muslim cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, a US citizen, while he is in hiding in Yemen. Despite what the apologists for assassination argue this is illegal, immoral and unwise. Assassinating Awlaki in the US would be murder, a capital crime, punishable by life in prison or even [...]

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From Special Guest Race-Talk Editor, Angela Stuesse This week the film Mississippi Chicken makes its Ohio premier: Questions of race, workers’ rights and exploitation form the crux of this intriguing documentary about Latin American immigrants living in rural Mississippi, where poultry plants promise jobs but little else. In the 1990s, poultry companies in Mississippi and [...]

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In response to Amanda Kijera’s article Co-written by Susana Morris, Crunk Feminist Collective We are extremely disheartened to know that you were raped. We are emboldened by your courage to speak out about this experience and to attempt to grapple so soon with the social and political implications of what you and other Haitian women [...]

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