Water stress could affect half the world's population in just 5 years
Jordan Davidson | nationofchange.org | 2019-08-28
World Water Week kicked off this week in the shadow of a frightening reality that nearly one-fourth of the world's population is living under extreme water stress and in just five years, half the world's population will live in water-stressed regions, according to the Weather Channel. The dire scenarios circle the globe, from New Mexico to New Delhi. The …
nationofchange.org/2019/08/28/water-stress-could-affect-half-the-worlds-population-in-just-5-years/

Violence Against Indigenous Hondurans Shows Us What Fuels Migration
Jovanna Garcia Soto | commondreams.org | 2019-08-28
People carry the coffin of indigenous leader and environmental activist Berta Caceres, Tegucigalpa, Honduras, March 3, 2016. (Photo: CNS/EPA/Stringer) | www.commondreams.org/sites/default/files/styles/cd_special_coverage/public/views-article/thumbs/screen_shot_2019-08-28_at_11.32.17_am.png …
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Beto O'Rourke Built His Career on Driving Out Low-Income Mexican Communities
Staff | truthout.org | 2019-08-28
| In the aftermath of the El Paso, Texas, shooting that claimed the lives of 22 people and wounded 25 more, there is no question that white supremacist extremism is boiling over the pot heated by centuries of anti-Mexican violence. | For El Paso Latinos who have been grating under Trump's brutal rhetoric and policies, there was something both shocking and familiar about the terror that befell our city on one sweltering, desert summer day. We watched in stunned horror as our city became th…
truthout.org/articles/beto-orourke-built-his-career-on-driving-out-low-income-mexican-communities/

Sep 4 Global Day Of Action For Mexican Workers
LCLAA, UPWA | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
Boycott Driscoll's | Protest at Rockwell Automation in San José | Wed., Sept. 4 @ 10 a.m. | Rockwell Automation Electric Vehicle Innovation Center | 111 North Market, San Jose, CA | Informational Picketing | in San Francisco, CA | Wed., Sept. 4 @ 6 pm | Whole Foods, Noe Valley 3950 – 24th Street, San Francisco | (also boycott picketing across Calif.)…
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/26/18825730.php

Emergency Palantir Mass Mobilization to Stop ICE Terror
R.R. | indybay.org | 2019-08-28
An angry group of activists mobilized on August 23 at the headquarters of Palantir Technologies in Palo Alto. Just 3 days earlier Palantir renewed its ICE Investigative Case Management contract that enables ICE to track the every move of undocumented immigrants until 2022; protesters responded quickly and loudly. | Photos by Jack Owicki, Pro Bono Photo. Please credit the photographer.
indybay.org/newsitems/2019/08/27/18825745.php

Counting Deaths for Dollars: The Rise and Fall of Nicaragua's 'Human Rights' Organizations
John Perry | globalresearch.ca | 2019-08-27
In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan "human rights" NGO's inflated the death toll during last year's coup. Today, these groups are in a state of complete disarray. | *** | When political conflict results in people being killed — especially at …
globalresearch.ca/rise-fall-nicaragua-human-rights-organizations/5687333

Counting deaths for dollars: The rise and fall of Nicaragua's 'human rights' organizations
John Perry | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-25
In their hunger for US funding, Nicaraguan opposition "human rights" NGOs inflated the death toll during the 2018 coup attempt….
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/25/deaths-for-dollars-nicaraguas-human-rights-organizations/

Blacks don't blame immigrants for the boss's crimes
Glen Ford | mronline.org | 2019-08-24
Large proportions of African Americans registered strong opposition to building a wall on the southern border, keeping undocumented people in limbo, and mass deportations. | Source…
mronline.org/2019/08/24/blacks-dont-blame-immigrants-for-the-bosss-crimes/

Nicaragua's Sandinista Revolution is still thriving, after 40 years
Max Blumenthal | thegrayzone.com | 2019-08-22
The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal reports from Managua, Nicaragua on the 40th anniversary of the Sandinista Revolution, which toppled a US-backed…
thegrayzone.com/2019/08/22/nicaragua-sandinista-revolution-40th-anniversary/

Meet Alvaro Enciso, the Artist Placing Crosses in Sonoran Desert to Memorialize Migrant Deaths
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-08-21
More than 3,000 human remains have been found in the Sonoran Desert, most of them of migrants fleeing their home countries to embark on an uncertain and perilous journey to the United States. On a recent visit to the Arizona borderlands, Democracy Now! accompanied Tucson-based artist Alvaro Enciso into the desert at the site where he placed four unique markers to honor four immigrants killed in a car accident years ago as they fled from Border Patrol. In the past five years, Enciso, who is originally from Colombia, has built and installed over 900 crosses across the treacherous Sonoran Desert in Arizona as part o…
www.democracynow.org/2019/8/21/alvaro_enciso_unique_crosses_sonoran_desert

Workplace Raids Are Not the Answer
Angela Stuesse | progressive.org | 2019-08-20
Criminalizing undocumented workers will not stop people from hiring them. It only makes them more exploitable.
progressive.org/dispatches/criminalizing-undocumented-workers-harms-all-stuesse-190820/

The Other Americans: In Guatemala, Indigenous Residents Appeal to the President Over Stolen Land
Jeff Abbott | progressive.org | 2019-08-13
With a newly elected leader, hundreds of Mayan Mam families still await restitution–or face migrating north.
progressive.org/dispatches/the-other-americans-in-guatemala-indigenous-appeal-president-stolen-land-abbott-190813/