Day: October 26, 2009

Profits, Poverty, and Immigration Converge

County Clerk Dianne Florez noticed it first. Plumes of smoke were rising outside the small West Texas town of Pecos. "The prison is burning again," she announced. The Reeves County Detention Complex

Ecuador: The Battle for Natural Resources Deepens

A new indigenous uprising began in defense of water sources threatened by open air mining in Ecuador in late September. This time indigenous organizations find themselves up against a government that claims