By Leni Villagomez Reeves First round victory—What’s next? The first round of elections in Ecuador was Feb. 7, and running mates Andrés Aráuz and Carlos Rabascall, running on a platform of largely [...] Continue Reading
National & International
El Mallku and Justice in Bolivia
By Juan Trujillo Limones As a result of cardiac arrest, the historic indigenous social leader Felipe Quispe Huanca died at the age of 78 on Jan. 19 in El Alto, Bolivia. The Mallku (community [...] Continue Reading
Pro-Trump Insurrection Has Valley Links
By Vic Bedoian As federal authorities scour the nation to identify and arrest members taking part in the death and destruction visited upon the U.S. Capitol last week, Briana Calix of the Fresno [...] Continue Reading
Congressional Members Who Sought to Disenfranchise Communities of Color Targeted
By Pilar Marrero (Editor’s note: Seven pro-Trump California Republicans supported the decertification of the November election, and a coalition of grassroots activists of color in their respective [...] Continue Reading
Local School Board Trustee at Capitol Insurrection
By Sergio Cortes (Editor’s note: Reprinted courtesy of usparkvalley.com.) Sierra Unified School District (SUSD) Trustee James Hoak took part in the assault on the U.S. Capitol in Washington, [...] Continue Reading
Will the Real State Sponsors of Terrorism Please Stand Up?
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Cuba State Sponsor of Terrorism but not Saudi Arabia? The Trump regime placed Cuba on the U.S. State Sponsor of Terrorism list on Jan. 11, just five days after inciting [...] Continue Reading
Latin America: What’s Going On and What Can We Learn
By Leni Villagomez Reeves Bolivia: It Was a MAS Landslide Yes! Luis Arce and David Choquehuanca as the candidates from the Movement to Socialism (MAS) Party—the party of Evo Morales—won the [...] Continue Reading
Chiapas in the Decolonizing October
By Juan Trujillo Limones As reactions to a decolonizing social process, images of the demolition of statues of conquerors, colonial leaders and slaveholders in Chile and the United States have been [...] Continue Reading
Can Kamala Harris Bring in the Much-Needed Minority Votes?
By Eduardo Stanley With the Aug. 11 selection of Kamala Harris as his running mate, Joe Biden, the Democratic 2020 Presidential candidate, obviously hopes to attract more minority votes, [...] Continue Reading
Why Is America Lagging the World in Managing Covid?
By Sunita Sohrabji The United States, which has both the largest number of infections and deaths from Covid-19, is lagging far behind other countries, many of which have far fewer resources, [...] Continue Reading
The Mapuche Hope
By Juan Trujillo Limones “It is important to call today to bring out the best in us, the legacy of the grandparents, the traditional knowledge of indigenous peoples for the benefit of all humanity; [...] Continue Reading
U.S. Sanctions Imposed on International Court at The Hague
By Leni Villagomez Reeves “State of Emergency” On June 11, 2020, President Donald Trump declared a “state of emergency.” Not about the pandemic. Not about racist violence by the police and the [...] Continue Reading