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Nigel Duara CalMatters With its back to the desert, Kern County is the southernmost band of California’s conservative Central Valley. Its western border forms a jagged staircase that mimics the shape of California’s coastline without ever approaching the water. And along its rural northern border is a long-running war...
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De espaldas al desierto, el condado de Kern es la banda más meridional del conservador Valle Central de California. Su borde occidental forma una escalera dentada que imita la forma de la costa de California sin acercarse al agua. Y a lo largo de su frontera norte rural hay una...
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Joshua Collins Ethnic Media Services Bogotá, Colombia – En la vecindad de Soledad, Deisy Paricio enciende velas en una ceremonia conmemorativa por los que han muerto durante los 10 sangrientos días de protesta en Colombia. “Estamos aquí para denunciar las acciones de un régimen criminal”, dice con una determinación...
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Joshua Collins Ethnic Media Services Bogotá, Colombia– Deisy Paricio lights candles at a remembrance ceremony in the neighborhood of Soledad for those who have died during 10 bloody days of protest in Colombia. “We’re here to denounce the actions of a criminal regime,” she says, with a cold determination...
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“The most effective way to destroy a people’s community to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.” This is my revised version of George Orwell’s original statement. Dolores Huerta recently sent out an email stating: “Dear Hilbert, when you’re celebrating Thanksgiving this week, add one more thing...
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You’d see this phenomenon in prison. A guy in H-Unit would get beat down real bad with a heavy weight belt and get sent to the hospital with eye damage and missing teeth. A couple weeks later a guy in I-Unit would get attacked by three prisoners with knives...
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Puedes ver este fenómeno en una cárcel. Un tipo en la Unidad H sería agarrado a golpes con un cinturón de pesas y terminaría en un hospital con daño ocular y sin dientes. Un par de semanas después, un tipo en la Unidad I sería atacado por tres prisioneros...
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Dan Heyman Public News Service CHARLESTON, W.Va. – There is a strong link between mass shootings and domestic violence, according to an analysis of seven years of shootings by the gun control group Everytown for Gun Safety. The study found the majority “involve domestic or family violence.” In more than...
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Hilbert Morales EL OBSERVADOR Violence is defined by the World Health Organization as “the intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, against oneself, another person, or against a group or community, which either results in or has a high likelihood of resulting in injury, death, psychological...