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Guardian | - Bolivia law lets Morales run for third term
Al Jazeera | - Official Bullying Lurks Behind Prep for Olympics in Brazil
Inter Press Service | Fabiola Ortiz - Former Argentine dictator Videla Dies in Prison at Age 87
Reuters | Hugh Bronstein - Venezuelan Soldiers to Patrol alongside Police to Fight Crime
Venezuelanalysis.com | Tamara Pearson - Detention of Undocumented Immigrants, a Multimillion Dollar Business
Latin American Herald Tribune | - Brazil judicial decision paves way for gay marriage
BBC | - Julian Assange Claims US Cyber Spying Threatens Latin America
Silicon Angle | Mike Wheatley - Guatemala's Rios Montt found guilty of genocide
BBC | - Historic Genocide Trial Nears End; Rios Montt Addresses the Court, Declares Innocence
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Homeland Security
A 'Specific, Credible, Yet Unconfirmed' Threat: The Border After 9/11
Over the weekend, the Department of Homelands Security (DHS) issued a warning that there was a “specific, credible, yet unconfirmed” threat of a “terrorist” attack in New York and Washington D.C.
The Homeland Securitization of Education in the Borderlands
On April 26, eight high school students ran from their seats in the audience of a Tucson, Arizona district school board meeting shortly before it was scheduled to begin, and occupied and chained th
Post-9/11 Sodus: The U.S.-Canadian Border on Display
It wasn’t a surprise to anyone when the New York state troopers turned Mexican Gabriela Gutierrez over to the U.S.
Works Like a Machine: Deportation in a Presidential Election Year
“Deportations Continue Despite U.S.
Bringing the Battlefield to the Border: The Wild World of Border Security and Boundary Building in Arizona
Originally published by Tomdispatch.com
Your Local Police Officer in Northern Washington State: A U.S. Border Patrol Agent
Remember that old song from the children’s television show Sesame Street that opens by rhetorically asking, “Who are the people in your neighborhood?”, the one that responds with the words
The Railroading of Border Security
Like a virus, or any other pathogen, “security” (of the police-state variety) goes wherever it can, typically creeping into the lives of marginalized or vulnerable populations and communities, and