Marines charged with human smuggling
Andrew Emett | nationofchange.org | 2019-09-23
Thirteen U.S. Marines stationed at Camp Pendleton in California were formally charged Friday for various crimes, including human smuggling, endangerment, larceny, and perjury. The investigation was launched after two lance corporals were arrested in July for allegedly smuggling three undocumented immigrants near the U.S.-Mexico border. | "Two of the Marines, Lance Cpl. Byron D. Law and Lance Cpl. David J. Salazar-Quintero, both members of 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division… were arrested by border patrol personnel on July 3, 2019 for allegedly transporting and conspiring to transport und…
nationofchange.org/2019/09/23/marines-charged-with-human-smuggling/

Makwirituni erakuni: "I'd like to introduce you to my family"
Paul Haeder | dissidentvoice.org | 2019-09-23
Juan Garcia helps the family's youngest, Jacob, 9 months, as he fusses during a recent mass at St. Patrick's Catholic Church in Central Oregon, Madras, where the ecosystem looks like parts of New Mexico, Arizona, Chihuahua. He introduces me and my colleague, Susy S. — both of us from Family Independence Initiative, a national non-profit …
dissidentvoice.org/2019/09/makwirituni-erakuni-id-like-to-introduce-you-to-my-family/

US deal with El Salvador puts new roadblock to asylum seekers
wsws.org | 2019-09-23
The attempt to label El Salvador as a "safe third country" is a deeply sadistic measure to undermine the rights of asylum guaranteed by international asylum law.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/23/immi-s23.html

Commemorating Tomás Cruz
Emiliana Cruz | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-23
(Translation from Spanish by Katherine Mosser and Racquel Cruz) In the 1980s, a struggle over land and the rights of the indigenous people across the Mexican state of Oaxaca reached murderous heights. The Chatino people faced losing their ancestral lands and we're engaged in a life and death battle. Despite the combined opposition of the…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/23/commemorating-tomas-cruz/

GM fires Mexican workers for aiding US strikers and calling for cross-border fight against automaker
wsws.org | 2019-09-23
The victimization exposes the weak underbelly of the transnational corporations, which fear that workers will defy the nationalist unions and unite internationally to defend jobs and living standards.
www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/09/23/sila-s23.html

Zapatistas Summon 'II International Meeting of Women Who Fight'
telesurenglish.net | 2019-09-22
Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN) women in southern Mexico have published Friday a statement to summon the II International Meeting of Women Who Fight which is set to take place from Dec. 26 to 29 in Chiapas. | RELATED: | Thousands Gather in the Rain in Madrid to Protest Femicides | The woman's branch of the EZLN reiterated in their letter add…
telesurenglish.net/news/Zapatistas-Call-II-International-Meeting-of-Women-who-Fight–20190922-0017.html

Mother of assassinated activist Berta Cáceres speaks out against US-backed Honduran dictatorship
Anya Parampil | thegrayzone.com | 2019-09-21
The Grayzone traveled to rural Honduras to visit the home of murdered activist Berta Cáceres. Anya Parampil sat down with…
thegrayzone.com/2019/09/21/interview-mother-berta-caceres-honduran-dictatorship/

San Diego Ends Electricity Monopoly, Aims for 100% Renewables by 2035
Staff | therealnews.com | 2019-09-20
San Diego has signed a Community Choice Energy agreement, creating a competitor to San Diego Gas & Electric. Owned by Sempra Energy, SDG&E has shifted toward exporting its natural gas to Mexico and overseas.
therealnews.com/columns/san-diego-ends-electricity-monopoly-aims-for-100-renewables-by-2035

El Desmadre: The Colonial Roots of Anti-Mexican Violence
Miguel Gutierrez | counterpunch.org | 2019-09-20
On August 3, 2019 a white supremacist walked into a Walmart in El Paso, Texas and murdered 22 people and injured dozens more. Shortly before the attack, he posted online comments complaining about a "Hispanic invasion." He later told authorities that he was specifically targeting "Mexicans." Just a few days before the El Paso massacre, another shooting in Gilroy, California left 3 dead and many more injured. The murderer in this case had online postings about invading "hordes of mestizos" and recommended that people read a white supremacist favorite "Might is Right" which, among other things, exalts the racial su…
counterpunch.org/2019/09/20/el-desmadre-the-colonial-roots-of-anti-mexican-violence/

"Young People Have Had Enough": Global Climate Strike Youth Activists on Why They Are Marching Today
Staff | democracynow.org | 2019-09-20
Today is the Global Climate Strike, inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. As people took to the streets in Africa, Asia, Europe and Australia, we host a roundtable discussion with youth activists organizing marches in the United States — in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Minneapolis — ahead of next week's U.N. Climate Action Summit. We are joined by Xiye Bastida, a 17-year-old climate justice activist originally from Mexico who is an organizer with Fridays for Future New York and a student at Beacon High School in New York; Katie Eder, a 19-year-old climate justice activist wh…
www.democracynow.org/2019/9/20/global_climate_strike_new_york_minnesota

Davutoğlu and the AKP, Trump and Mexico, John Bolton
unitedEditor | uwidata.com | 2019-09-17
Davutoƒülu Former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoƒülu announced his resignation from the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) on Friday. The AKP unanimously agreed to raise the question of Davutoglu's expulsion, as well as the head of the parliamentary human rights commission, Ayhan Sefer àústàºn, the deputy from Istanbul Abdullah Ba≈ücƒ±and former Manisa deputy Selàßuk àñzden. A founder …
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