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Bernie Sanders Names Tara Houska Native American Advisor to the Campaign

Tweet By second gen Tara Houska, Ojibwe, Tribal Attorney, Native American Rights Activist Bernie has named a new Native American advisor to the campaign. Tara Houska is a tribal rights attorney, as well as an environmental activist and a contributing columnist to Indian Country Today Media Network (ICTMN) In her new role, Houska, who is […]

A Dark Legacy: Hillary Clinton’s Role in the Mexican Drug War

Tweet Mexico, John M. Ackerman wrote recently for Foreign Policy, “is not a functional democracy.” Instead, it’s a “repressive and corrupt” oligarchy propped up by a “blank check” from Washington. Since 2008, that blank check has come to over $2.5 billion appropriated in security aid through the Mérida Initiative, a drug war security assistance program […]

Juan, CSO from Metro Tech High – Chicanos Por La Causa, Inc. [email protected]

Tweet Science and technology, combined with the arts has a great young advocate with Juan, who got inspired on his career choice by the role the arts had depicting science discoveries in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. “I saw Leonardo da Vinci’s science drawings and the work of the cartographers, and how scientists observed […]

“MCCARTHY AND BERNIE SANDERS” by Latino Activist SAL BALDENEGRO

Tweet Déjà vu: Bernie Sanders reincarnates Eugene McCarthy… Eugen-McCarthyPD_200As Yogi Berra noted, it’s déjà vu all over again. As it did forty-eight (48) years ago, the Democratic Party elite-establishment has declared war on its members, particularly the youth and their champion. The target in 1968 was Minnesota Sen. Eugene McCarthy. In 2016, the target is […]

Guatemalan Feminist Rapper Tearing Down Walls

Tweet By: Heather Gies TeleSUR spoke with Guatemalan hip hop artist, Rebeca Lane, about her music as a tool in the struggle for women’s empowerment. Rebeca Lane is a feminist rapper, poet, artist and activist based in Guatemala City whose art and resistance as a woman and an anarchist has been shaped by her country’s […]

Navajo-Hopi Land Commission announces next steps for Paragon-Bisti Solar Ranch

Tweet   WINDOW ROCK – The Navajo-Hopi Land Commission announced that it will explore the next phase of activity, Pre-Construction, at Site 1 of the Paragon-Bisti Solar Ranch comprised of 22,000 acres of the Paragon-Bisti Ranch south of Farmington that was selected and conveyed to the Navajo Nation in the late 1980s under the Navajo-Hopi […]

Immigrants Don’t Drain Welfare. They Fund It.

Tweet By Laura Reston Republican presidential candidates who want to deport undocumented immigrants en masse, end birthright citizenship, and build a wall along the Mexican border just got some new ammunition. A report released Wednesday by the Center for Immigration Studies, an organization that advocates for reducing immigration to the United States, has concluded that […]

Banking History Calls Into Question Donald Trump’s $10B Net Worth Claim

Tweet John Tamny , Forbes Staff While there’s a lot to criticize Donald Trump the politician about, his business exploits are something to behold. That is so because as George Gilder frequently reminds us, it’s the proverbial “leap” that produces the crucial information necessary to power any economy forward. Over the decades Trump has taken […]

Pulitzer Prize Reporter Exposes Trump’s Lack of Wealth, Mob Ties, Failure to Support Charity, and Much More

Tweet   Most progressives and liberals have long suspected Donald Trump is a fraud. Thanks to an investigative reporter who has been dogging the Trumpster for over a quarter of a century, there is documentation of his numerous fraudulent acts and behaviors. In addition, there are a number of questions that the media should be […]

Retiring Mexican-American Studies director helped cultivate cultural conversations

Tweet By Lidia Herrera August 21, 2015 Empty bookshelves frame the small office while boxes, filled with old videocassette tapes, lie on the floor next to a desk, covered with scattered newspapers on top. This is it, the last moments Tatcho Mindiola sits in his office as the Director of Mexican-American Studies. As the director […]