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White Male Bloggers Want Everything But the Burden of Oppression

White Male Bloggers Want Everything But the Burden of Oppression

by Akiba Solomon on June 16 2011, 10:00AM

There’s a historical precedent for Internet hoaxers Tom MacMaster and Bill Graber. And trust that there will be more to come.

Topics: Akiba Solomon, Gender & Sexuality, Global Affairs

Javier Sicilia's Poetry in Motion Against the U.S.-Mexico Drug Wars Photo

Javier Sicilia’s Poetry in Motion Against the U.S.-Mexico Drug Wars

by Debbie Nathan on June 14 2011, 8:56AM

After losing his son to drug violence, a renowned Mexican artist set out on a cross-country trek to dramatize the death that our failed, militaristic response to narcotics has spawned.

Topics: Dispatches, Drug War, Global Affairs

Colombia Moves Past Reconciliation and Revives the Idea of Reparation

Colombia Moves Past Reconciliation and Revives the Idea of Reparation

by Michelle Chen on June 2 2011, 9:25AM

The war-torn nation will allow victims of violence to petition for compensation. If the project works, it just may rewrite the rules of justice for human rights atrocities.

Topics: Global Affairs, Global Justice

North African Refugees Stuck at Intersection of Europe's Hope and Fear

North African Refugees Stuck at Intersection of Europe’s Hope and Fear

by Michelle Chen on May 16 2011, 9:43AM

Europeans cheered the prospect of democracy in the Maghreb. But the revolutions have challenged Europe’s once promising border politics.

Topics: Global Affairs, Global Justice, Immigration

Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' Bill Stumbles, But Still Not Off the Table

Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill Stumbles, But Still Not Off the Table

by Channing Kennedy on May 13 2011, 3:06PM

After international outcry, parliamentary session ends without a vote on the bill.

Topics: Gender & Sexuality, Global Affairs

Walkout by Female MPs Delays Uganda's 'Kill the Gays' Bill Until Friday

Walkout by Female MPs Delays Uganda’s ‘Kill the Gays’ Bill Until Friday

by Channing Kennedy on May 11 2011, 5:32PM

LGBTQ advocates in Uganda say that hate crimes and violence against their community have increased following the bill’s introduction in 2009.

Topics: Global Affairs

U.S. Multinationals Revive NAFTA-Style Trade Deals on Capitol Hill

U.S. Multinationals Revive NAFTA-Style Trade Deals on Capitol Hill

by Michelle Chen on May 3 2011, 9:04AM

From the food industry to tea party benefactor David Koch, corporatists are hammering lawmakers to move pacts that have been stalled since the Bush era.

Topics: ALEC, Economy, Global Affairs, Global Justice

The Growing Food Crisis, and What World Leaders Aren't Doing About It

The Growing Food Crisis, and What World Leaders Aren’t Doing About It

by Michelle Chen on April 22 2011, 9:00AM

Rising food prices have plunged more than 44 million people in to poverty in the past year. That’s just the beginning.

Topics: Economy, Global Affairs, Global Justice

Consensus Builds on Free Trade Deals, Alongside Proof of Their Toll

Consensus Builds on Free Trade Deals, Alongside Proof of Their Toll

by Michelle Chen on April 18 2011, 9:27AM

On the same day this month, the president backed a Colombia pact he campaigned against, and new memos revealed how complicit Chiquita has been in anti-union violence.

Topics: Economy, Global Affairs, Global Justice

France's Anti-Muslim Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect

France’s Anti-Muslim Burqa Ban Goes Into Effect

by Asraa Mustufa on April 12 2011, 1:11PM

The move comes as several European countries and the United States use so-called “secular” traditions to scapegoat religious minorities.

Topics: Global Affairs

Ivory Coast Update: Laurent Gbagbo Arrested

Ivory Coast Update: Laurent Gbagbo Arrested

by Asraa Mustufa on April 11 2011, 2:33PM

The incumbent -president has been in a violent standoff since refusing to step down after the country’s elections last November.

Topics: Global Affairs

Dispatch From El Salvador: Obama's Drug War Feels Eerily Familiar

Dispatch From El Salvador: Obama’s Drug War Feels Eerily Familiar

by Roberto Lovato on March 31 2011, 10:56AM

Salvadorans watch uneasily as a new leftist government militarizes daily life in the same way the old right-wing one did—only now, they hunt narcos instead of communists.

Topics: Dispatches, Drug War, Global Affairs

America's Grisly History Haunts Obama's El Salvador Visit

America’s Grisly History Haunts Obama’s El Salvador Visit

by Roberto Lovato on March 25 2011, 11:18AM

Many Salvadorans remain uneasy about a U.S. government that, for years, backed a murderous dictatorship.

Topics: Global Affairs

Aristide Returns to Haiti, Along With U.S. Deportees

Aristide Returns to Haiti, Along With U.S. Deportees

by Thoai Lu on March 22 2011, 4:50PM

The country limps toward recovery, while presidential election drama swirls in the air.

Topics: Global Affairs

What's With the Post-Earthquake Anti-Japanese Animus?

What’s With the Post-Earthquake Anti-Japanese Animus?

by Julianne Hing on March 15 2011, 3:52PM

From politicos to two-bit comedians and anonymous racists on Tumblr, it seems like everyone has lost their minds.

Topics: Global Affairs, Technology

At Least Some Find Reason to Celebrate in Haiti

At Least Some Find Reason to Celebrate in Haiti

by Thoai Lu on March 11 2011, 3:37PM

Country holds first Carnival festival since last year’s deadly quake.

Topics: Global Affairs

The Wave of Popular Uprisings Has Washed Beyond the Middle East

The Wave of Popular Uprisings Has Washed Beyond the Middle East

by Michelle Chen on February 28 2011, 10:28AM

From Zimbabwe to Madison, popular movements are looking for their own “trigger elements.”

Topics: Egypt, Global Affairs, Global Justice

Haitian Deportee Dies After Cholera Symptoms

Haitian Deportee Dies After Cholera Symptoms

by Jamilah King on February 7 2011, 12:37PM

Wildrick Guerrier, 34, was reportedly healthy until he was stuck with 17 other men in a Haitian jail cell.

Topics: Global Affairs

Egypt's Uprising Forces a New American View of the

Egypt’s Uprising Forces a New American View of the “Arab Street”

by Michelle Chen on February 2 2011, 10:23AM

We now see people who demand freedom, rather than a scary “other” challenging our own.

Topics: Egypt, Global Affairs, Global Justice

South Sudan Votes to Secede--Now What?

South Sudan Votes to Secede—Now What?

by Kai Wright on January 31 2011, 9:30AM

Check out Farid Farid’s Colorlines essay asking just that question, at the voting’s outset.

Topics: Global Affairs, Kai Wright