(See Alice Ollstein’s slideshow from Saturday’s rally in DC here or click on a thumbnail at the bottom of this post.) Immigrant activists and their allies rallied in cities across the country this weekend,...
Immigrant activists and their allies rallied in cities across the country this weekend, demanding President Obama and Congress move quickly to stop deportations that separate families and pass comprehensive immigration reform. Alice Ollstein covered...
Advocates for immigration reform continued a series of actions today to demand that families separated by US immigration policies be reunited. Dozens of women and children who had been deported to Mexico, attempted to...
The struggle in Thailand between Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra’s administration and anti-government groups is increasingly shifting to the courts to decide the government’s fate. As Ron Corben reports the governing Pheu Thai Party faces...
Egyptian authorities deported dozens of activists Friday who were traveling to the Gaza strip to mark International Women’s day. About 100 women planned to travel through Egypt’s northern Sinai to the Rafah crossing and...
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the death of Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. The former leader – charismatic to some, controversial to others – governed the country through profound socioeconomic policy changes which included...
(Photo credit: Alice Ollstein. View a slideshow of Sunday’s protests by clicking on one of the images below.) Hundreds of students and activists from across the country chained themselves to the White House fence...
Click on any image to launch slideshow. All photos by Alice Ollstein. Listen to her report on the demonstrations here.
Ukrainian parliamentarians voted over the weekend to remove Victor Yanukovich from the presidency and appoint an interim replacement. The Russian government, which supported the Yanukovich administration, expressed doubts today about the legitimacy of the...
Violent anti-government protests over the last two weeks in Venezuela have led to six dead and dozens injured. Many international media outlets have portrayed opposition protesters as a democratic resistance movement. President Nicolas Maduro...
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