Sony Esteus and Community Radio in Haiti
On the last day of his life, popular radio advocate Sony Estéus was to attend the opening of Voice of Ile-à-Vâche Community Radio, the newest in an expanding network of grassroots stations throughout Haiti.
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Latin America’s Safe Abortion Hotlines: Reproductive Rights 911
Abortion is illegal or prohibitively restricted in most of Latin America. While even pro-woman governments and politicians in Latin America struggle against strong opposition to legalizing abortion, women and activists across the continent are safely taking access to chemical abortion out of the clinic and into their own hands.
Are Pilots Deserting Washington’s Remote-Control War?
The U.S. drone war across much of the Greater Middle East and parts of Africa is in crisis and not because civilians are dying or the target list for that war, or the right to wage it just about anywhere on the planet, are in question in Washington. Something far more basic is at stake: drone pilots are quitting in record numbers.
Mexico: In the Shadow of the Ayotzinapa Crisis, Autonomies Emerge
The enforced disappearance of 43 students from the Ayotzinapa rural teachers college has catapulted Mexico’s security crisis into the international spotlight and revealed the deep-seated ties between the government and organized crime. It has also brought to the forefront the dignified struggle and courage of the families of these students who refuse to believe that their sons have been reduced to bags of ashes.
Decolonizing Bolivia’s History of Indigenous Resistance: An Interview with Elisa Vega Sillo
Elisa Vega Sillo, a member of Bolivia's Vice Ministry of Decolonization, speaks about the unique work of the Vice Ministry, the role of historical memory in the country’s radical politics, and the importance of decolonizing Bolivia’s history of indigenous resistance.
Drone Strikes and the Sanitization of Violence
As the U.S. drone war flares up again in Yemen, a distressingly familiar pattern is playing out.