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What the Teachers Won

Eric Blanc with Emily Comer and Jay O'Neal Jacobin
West Virginia shows that we can fight back and win. We talk to two teachers to assess the tentative settlement and what comes next.

5 Latin American Land Defenders Putting Their Lives on the Line For Their Communities

Remezcla Staff Remezcla
Being a land defender in Latin America is extremely dangerous. A recent Front Line Defenders report found that in 2017, more than 300 human rights defenders – 80 percent of which were from Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, and the Philippines – were killed. “An analysis of the work done by those killed is instructive: 67 percent were engaged in the defence of land, environmental, and indigenous peoples’ rights and nearly always in the context of mega projects, extractive industry, and big business.