Poet, musician and cultural advocate Manuel González has worked at the inter91̳ of poetry, education and social change, in detention centres, classrooms and community spaces throughout New Mexico, writes Bill Nevins.
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Bolivia suffered its worst-ever bushfire season last year. Bolivia Burning: Inside a Latin American Ecocide, a new short documentary, focuses on the worst-affected Santa Cruz department, the heart of Bolivia’s agro-industrial frontier. Ben Radford reviews the film.
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Ecuadorians are resoundingly resisting the Daniel Noboa government’s neoliberal policies, despite heavy police and military repression, reports Ben Radford.
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A preparatory meeting for the First International Antifascist Conference, which will take place in Brazil next March, was hosted in Porto Alegre, reports Tatiana Py Dutra.
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Deepak Joshi argues that while structural racism must be challenged, migrants have responsibilities too, including to refuse to be vote banks for careerist politicians.
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Australia’s blatantly strings-attached aid to Papua New Guinea aims to further its own security interests, namely access to PNG’s bases and a military ally obliged to side with Australia in any confrontation with China. Allen Jennings reports.
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The Pacific Islands Forum Leaders Meeting in Honiara, Solomon Islands, once again offered cautious words and postponed action on West Papua, writes Ali Mirin.
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Latin American solidarity activists called a snap protest against the United States military deployment in the Caribbean and demanded federal Labor publicly oppose the threat to Venezuela’s sovereignty. Jim McIlroy reports.
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The leniency of a community correction order handed to a man who ran down two Aboriginal men, killing one and seriously injuring the other, is being challenged, including by the dead man’s sister and the Department of Public Prosecutions. Paul Gregoire reports.
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Anti-racism corroborrees and Sovereignty Never Ceded rallies were organised across the country in a powerful pushback to the right’s attempts to declare that immigration must end and migrants are not welcome. Chloe DS, Markela Panegyres and Peter Boyle report.
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In the context of racist far-right marches — including attacks on First Nations-led Camp Sovereignty — the recent Ecosocialism 2025 conference in featured a panel of four First Nations women deeply involved in the struggle for sovereignty. Ben Radford reports.
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Bougainville and West Papua represent two fundamentally different approaches to Indigenous struggles for self-determination, writes Ali Mirin.