The Radio Show Bringing Prisoners Messages from Home
For inmates that can’t afford phone calls, this weekly program connects them to faraway family and friends.
Month: December 2017
Voices from the Barricades: Protests Against Election Fraud Intensify in Honduras
Nighttime road blockades have been springing up in neighborhoods around the Honduran capital as opposition alliance supporters continue to protest electoral fraud. “They want to impose a president on us,” protester Angélica Medrano told Toward Freedom. “We don’t want a dictator. We want a country at peace, a free country, and to elect the president that we elected, for whom we voted, because that’s our right.”
The Hirak: A Moroccan People’s Movement Demands Change From the Streets
A people’s movement in Morocco is demanding better infrastructure, release of political prisoners, and an end to economic inequality. Following in the footsteps of regional uprisings in 2011, the Hirak is now a social explosion in Morocco.
Butting Heads at the Great Divide: Uranium Mining in the Grand Canyon
An investigation into the Grand Canyon uranium mine owned a Toronto-based mining company and the indigenous resistance facing it down.
Libya: Up to One Million Enslaved Migrants, Victims of ‘Europe’s Complicity’
“European governments are knowingly complicit in the torture and abuse of tens of thousands of refugees and migrants detained by Libyan immigration authorities in appalling conditions in Libya,” Amnesty International charged in the wake of global outrage over the sale of migrants in Libya.
A Year in the Ohio River Valley: Hard Times in Trump Country
Source: The Intercept
Jamie Stewart voted for Donald Trump, but she thinks the president is a “jackass.” She doesn’t really love to talk about what he’s doing or why she voted for him.
“They should take his phone away from him,” she says. “He posts stupid shit all the time.”
In a series of interviews that stretched over a year, Stewart was ambivalent when pressed about the president’s accomplishments or any promises he might have kept. “I don’t really pay attention,” she says. “I don’t have time to give a shit.”