Making History in Wisconsin: Video Report on Recall Elections
Six Republican senators in Wisconsin were targeted for recall on August 9 after backing Governor Scott Walker's union-busting bill this spring.
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The Andean Connection: Tracking the Drug War’s Coca Leaves and Failed Policies
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Until the Day I Die: Haitian Women Winning Their Rights
Haitian peasant and women's rights advocate Gerta Louisama speaks about the struggle for social equality and economic rights for rural Haitian women.
Taking the Fight to the Ballot Box: Video Report on Wisconsin’s Recall Election Primaries
As voter Bill Schlewey said "Wisconsinites are known fighters and this is another fight we're not going to go down easy on."
Colombia’s Gold Rush
Source: Fault Lines, Al Jazeera
Gold fever is sweeping across South America. Nowhere is it more lethal than in Colombia, where the gold rush has become a new axle in Colombia’s civil war.
Turf wars are erupting between paramilitaries and leftist rebel groups who are fighting to take control of mining regions. It is fuelling an old ideological conflict that has displaced thousands of people.
Helicopter raids by the Colombian army on small community mining collectives have become commonplace and the Colombian government is accused of targeting poor workers to protect big business interests and committing human rights violations with impunity.