Álvaro Rocha for Somos Translated and adapted by Nick Rosen Peru This Week When Saul Escobar was punished for daring to speak his mother tongue inside a Ucayali school, it never occurred to him that one day he would be a professor in a university and would teach in Shipibo, the very language that had [...]
MLK Would Have Stood Up For Clean Air
By Gina Carroll Mom’s Clean Air Force Environmental issues such as air pollution and climate change are like thieves in the night for communities of color. They are insidious offenders that relentlessly and devastatingly steal the health and vitality of everyone to a considerable degree; of children most profoundly, and of African-American and Latino children [...]
Biking from Machu Picchu to the Amazon for a good cause
By Milenka Frkovich Peru This Week (Note: This article originally ran in Peru This Week‘s sister publication, The Break.) Throughout my life I have seen many people, including close friends and family, struggle with cancer. This horrible disease serves as a wake up call to all of us, not only to take care of our [...]
Predictions for 2013 in food politics
By Marion Nestle Food Politics For my monthly Food Matters column in the San Francisco Chronicle, I devote the one in January every year to predictions. Last year I got them all pretty much on target. It didn’t take much genius to figure out that election-year politics would bring things to a standstill. This year’s [...]
Guest Voz: Key Questions for the White House on Immigration Reform
By B. Loewe National Day Laborer Organizing Network While President Obama has repeatedly pledged to make immigration reform a centerpiece of his next term, not one question was asked of him on this topic by reporters during yesterday’s White House press conference. Though the debt ceiling was the issue of the day, it is fair [...]
My Story: Undocumented and being deported
By Sorabji Swaraj My Deportation (Editor’s Note: Sorabji Swaraj is a pseudonym for the writer.) Everyone who has ever been deported or is in deportation proceedings has a story. Some peoples stories are sad, others tragic, others are absurd. Mine, my friend, was the latter. How and where did I get “busted”? Well, I’m embarrased [...]