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Human Rights
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<p> As a proud New Yorker and the mother of a first responder who lost his life on September 11, 2001, I am saddened to learn that Rep. Peter King (R-NY) is holding congressional hearings, March 10, on the “radicalization of American Muslims.”</p>
<p><strong>Frontera NorteSur</strong></p>
<p> Stunned by the murders of three people whose lives they tried to save, human rights activists in Ciudad Juarez vow nevertheless to press forward with their movement for justice.</p>
<p><strong>New America Media</strong></p>
<p><strong>PHOENIX</strong><strong>, Ariz.</strong> — A new set of far-reaching anti-immigrant measures passed by an Arizona State Appropriations Committee early this morning has human rights activists and health care professionals contemplating civil disobedience.</p>
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<p> Last month six hundred workers at the Chipotle fast food chain were fired in Minnesota.</p>
<p> Their crime? Working.</p>
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<p> Sometimes the most important lessons learned at school don’t come from a classroom.</p>
<p> They come from how a school reacts to ugly incidents of bias and prejudice. When a principal learns that nasty slurs are being used in the school or that students are being bullied because of their race or ethnicity, it can be tempting to deny it.</p>
<p> It can be tempting to resort to the old refrain, “That doesn’t happen at our school.”</p>
Frontera NorteSur
If anything marks the first weeks of 2011 in Mexico and the Paso del Norte border region, it is the growth of citizen activism in response to femicide, human rights violations and a broad range of atrocities stemming from the so-called drug war.
Galvanized by the recent murders of two women from Ciudad Juarez, activist mother Marisela Escobedo and poet Susana Chavez, public demonstrations were held January 15-17 in Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua City, Monterrey, Culiacan, Pachuca and Mexico City.
<p>New America Media</p>
<p>JUAREZ, Mexico —In a world upside-down, Marisela Escobedo, a mother seeking justice for the killing of her teenage daughter, was executed a few days ago right in front of the Chihuahua state governors office. Meanwhile, a drug cartel has offered to find the killer.</p>