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Leonard Peltier: The Long Road Home and His New Beginning

After nearly 50 years of arbitrary detention, Native American activist Leonard Peltier was finally able to return home on February 18. He received a triumphant welcome in his native land, the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in North Dakota. “I’ve been…

Dear Dom-an, Love Dom-an: Kasiyana and Our Sacred Breath

A Love Letter to Myself By Florence (Dom-an) Macagne Dear Dom-an, When did you last get a love letter? I remember the long and short letters from a dear friend before his Sacred Breath was suddenly snatched out of his fragile…

Blossom Beyond Boundaries: Literary Criticism and the Socio-Cultural Dynamics of Panagbenga 2025

By: Rhodalyn B. Cabbotot The Panagbenga Festival, held annually in Baguio City, is more than just a celebration of flowers. It’s a vibrant representation of the community’s roots, strength, and solidarity. The 2025 festival’ theme is “Blossom Beyond Boundaries’‘, capturing…

Calling on the Maharlika Investment Corporation to Withdraw its Support for Destructive Large-scale Mining Projects

The Philippine Misereor Partnership Inc. (PMPI) challenges the Maharlika Investment Corporation’s (MIC) blatant and incomprehensible move to fund a loan agreement favoring a gold and copper mining project in Kalinga province. The MIC was created through R.A 11954 or the…

Could Algeria become a federal and secular state?

Since its independence in 1962, the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria has adopted a whole series of constitutions that, sometimes amended or supplemented, have governed the country’s political system. The unitary state has brilliantly failed since independence. Find another form…

Why Claudia Sheinbaum Is a Humanist in One Minute

During a press conference in Mexico City on January 31, 2025, a reporter asked the President of Mexico about the historical significance and reasoning behind marking 2025 as the Year of Indigenous Women. Ms. Sheinbaum’s response, in just over a…

Leonard Peltier is free

At last Leonard Peltier is free and at home. This is one of the first photos to arrive where he is with his family and friends from the committee that always defended him and called for his release. Peltier was…

Tribal Leaders in Support of Clemency for Leonard Peltier

In a show of broad support from Indian Country, on January 13 2025, over 120 tribal leaders sent a letter calling for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier. At 80 years old, Peltier is in his 49th year…

Film ‘Igualada’. History of struggles of Francia Márquez, Vice President of Colombia

IGUALADA: An “igualada”, a derogatory term (based on class, race, and gender) used to designate someone who acts as if they deserve rights and privileges that supposedly don’t correspond to them. Pressenza presents an interview with Juan Mejía Botero, director…

How the Braiding Seeds Fellowship Works to Uproot Racism in the Food System

This Petersburgh, New York, organization fights racial injustice in the food system. By Damon Orion Racism has been embedded in America’s food and agriculture systems since European colonizers began enslaving Black and Indigenous people for farm and plantation labor. A…

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