By Alex Kane
A month after Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin trashed community organizers as a way to attack Barack Obama, activists and individuals around the country have responded by raising more than $7,500 for the “Community Organizers Fight Back Fund.” The Chicago-based Midwest Academy is managing the fund and will use the money to train [...]

By Kari Lydersen
Salvador Aguero brandishes federal documents which he thinks clearly award the land to Lomas de Poleo residents.
The Anapra region of Ciudad Juarez is dry and dusty, the road leading there lined with junkyards. In spring, fierce winds blow dust so thick it stings the skin and fills the ears and nostrils of residents [...]

By Susan Campbell
A large photo in an exhibit about race at Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center shows a group of people dressed in white T-shirts.
On those shirts are written the races as they historically were defined by the Census Bureau. The older white man’s shirt says “1790 — Free White; 1880 — White; 1970 [...]

by Rev, from Linchpin #5
On June 11th 2008, the Prime Minister of Canada, Stephen Harper, claimed to apologize for residential schools and the government’s plan to destroy the cultures of Indigenous peoples in Canada. This apology came after a similar apology was given to indigenous people in Australia. Residential or boarding schools were part of [...]

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