by Brian Erickson & Jennifer Johnson
on May 05, 2010
The early months of 2010 have been a roller-coaster of anticipation and
tension within the immigration debate. Expectations were running high in
March when a Senators Schumer and Graham released
a framework for reform days before crowds of over
200,000–unified in their chants of “immigration reform now” – gathered
blocks from the capitol.
Weeks later, a heat wave of anger erupted when Arizona Governor
Jan Brewer signed SB1070, a draconian and dangerous legislation
that has sparked both swift and widespread responses.
by Jennifer Johnson
on April 30, 2010
Human rights organizations are joining together to condemn
and call for urgent
action following the horrific attacks against an international
human rights caravan in Oaxaca earlier this week.
On Tuesday, April 27th a caravan of 25 human rights observers, reporters
and teachers was ambushed
by an armed group of paramilitaries in the state of Oaxaca, Mexico.
Two members of the delegation were killed in this attack, Betty Alberta
Cariño, the director of Center for Community Support Working Together
(CACTUS) along with Tyri Antero Jaakkola, a human rights observer from
Finland, with 15 more reported
injured.
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by Vanessa Kritzer
on May 03, 2010
“Each of us represents a force that has a great capacity to create.” These words rang out on the colorful and majestic voice of Honduran activist and musician Karla Lara during an empowering concert at Busboys and Poets in Washington, DC on April 23rd, where she taught us about the values that are central to the movement of peaceful, civic resistance that has been ongoing since the June 2009 coup. Lara, who for years has been making music that inspires people to be a part of constructing a better reality in places across Central America, now is a leader of the feminists-in-resistance and artists-in-resistance who are a part of the struggle for human rights, justice, and democracy going on in her own country.
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by Brian Erickson
on April 29, 2010
“How many years has this been going on? Why didn't they change the
way they investigate everything?” These are the questions that
linger on the mind of Irma Monreal after nearly nine years of
struggling to find a semblance of justice after her daughter, Esmeralda,
was raped, tortured and murdered in Ciudad Juárez in 2001.
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by Vanessa Kritzer
on May 03, 2010
“It's important to talk about the terrible things that are
happening, but the media always covers the negative. It’s more
important to talk about what is rarely discussed—that the people are
organizing themselves. Not much has been said about how the country is
different now, or at least that there are new ideas now about what
policies should be like and how we can change things. I wanted to bring
that sense of hope and possibility here. The belief that a new America
is possible, a different order is possible.”
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by Salvador Sarmiento, RFK Center for Justice and Human Rights
on April 28, 2010
Take a look at a quality analysis by Salvador Sarmiento of the Robert F.
Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights of the road to travel
between an apparently successful donors conference and the actual
delivery of well-targeted aid, published on the Center for International
Policy’s Americas Program blog.
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