‘Those Visits Were Everything’: How Prison Visitation Cuts Devastate Families

By Victoria Law on March 22, 2017


Graphic: Julia Kuo

Jenise Britt sees her husband at Sing Sing, one of New York’s 17 maximum-security prisons, at least twice a week. From her job in Bryant Park, it’s only a short walk to Grand Central and the 7:19 train to Ossining. (more…)

More than 600,000 Demonstrators Repudiate the Dictatorship and Macri’s Government

By Carlos Aznárez on March 25, 2017

Six hundred thousand or more? There are no set of eyes that could have counted exactly how many women, men, young people, adolescents and children marched Friday through the streets of Buenos Aires and throughout the country to condemn the military dictatorship of 1976 and incidentally signal in the strongest expression that the current government of Macri is one of their heirs. (more…)

Grassroots-Run Bakery Pushes Back Reaction to Provide Bread for the People

By Jeanette Charles on March 23, 2017

Photo: Panaderia La Minka

The collectively-run La Minka bakery, formerly known as the Mansion Bakery in downtown Caracas, was the site of a stand-off with opposition supporters Tuesday night as local residents with suspected ties to right-wing parties First Justice (PJ) and Popular Will (VP) terrorized customers and staff following two days of direct threats. (more…)

Movements and Social Activists from Argentina and Brazil to the People of Ecuador

March 21, 2017

We would like to stress that April 2nd, the day of the presidential runoff in Ecuador, is a crucial moment for the people of Ecuador and all of Latin America.   (more…)

Russophobia – Symptom of US Implosion

By Finian Cunningham on March 24, 2017

There was a time when Russophobia served as an effective form of population control – used by the American ruling class in particular to command the general US population into patriotic loyalty. Not any longer. Now, Russophobia is a sign of weakness, of desperate implosion among the US ruling class from their own rotten, internal decay. (more…)

Trump’s War on Terror Has Quickly Become as Barbaric and Savage as He Promised

By Glenn Greenwald on March 26, 2017

From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. (more…)

The Empire Strikes Back: Cuba-US Relations under Trump

John Kirk on March 23, 2017

Photo: Bill Hackwell

It was about time.After December 17, 2014, when United States president Barack Obama and Cuban president Raúl Castro agreed to reopen diplomatic relations between their two countries after more than 50 years, the future suddenly seemed positive, hopeful. (more…)

Protesters in DC Confront Honduran President Over Berta Cáceres Murder

By Lauren Gambino on March 21, 2017

Supporters and family members of Berta Cáceres, the Honduran environmental and indigenous rights activist who was assassinated last year, have confronted the country’s president in Washington to demand an independent investigation of her murder. (more…)

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