Sunday, February 18, 2018

Dan Rather | 10 Questions in the Wake of Parkland Shooting


Dan Rather | 10 Questions in the Wake of Parkland Shooting



Indigenous women protesting in Guatemala. (photo: Elena Hermosa/Trócaire)
Indigenous women protesting in Guatemala. (photo: Elena Hermosa/Trócaire)



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"A lawyer poised to represent 11 Guatemalan women in a Canadian court says his clients are eager to 'tell their story' in their lawsuit against Minerals, the Toronto-based mining company named in an alleged 2007 gang rape in ." @CTVNews https://buff.ly/2p3v1sF 


Demanding Justice: Indigenous Women in Guatemala Battle Canadian Mining Giant
Heather Gies, Upside Down World
Gies writes: "In early 2007, hundreds of military, police, and private security personnel stormed Choc Quib's community, Lote Ocho, and raped the women while the men in the subsistence farming community tended their fields. State and private forces had attempted to force the Indigenous peasants from their land days earlier, burning several homes."
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