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Now Nissan workers are experiencing the brunt of those intimidation tactics, the Mississippi Alliance organizing this week's demonstration at Canton claims. Its website is filled with examples of unfair treatment. Signs at a recent protest organized by the UAW proclaimed, "Labor rights are civil rights."

Since April 2015 Burundi President Pierre Nkurunziza has waged a war on independent media, accusing journalists of “fighting the government” and creating “fake news,” and declaring them enemies and betrayers of the Burundian people. Journalists have been detained and killed, newspaper offices and radio stations set on fire. Forced to "run or die," three women journalists have courageously found a way to continue reporting on developments in their homeland from exile.