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The U.S. experience offers some valuable lessons to activists and sovereign states who are working to strengthen the role of small farmers. People from around the world are celebrating the International Day of Campesino’s Struggle on Sunday, as millions of small scale farmers across the planet face violence and forced eviction for control of the global food production. The U.N. estimates that there are 500...

Undocumented students at the University of Connecticut are fighting for equal access to institutional aid and facing what they say is national ignorance, statewide unfairness and a local lack of information. Arrests Eric Cruz López went to Washington D.C. to get arrested. López, a fourth-semester biomedical engineering major at UConn, traveled to Washington D.C. to protest what he and other undocumented UConn students call ignorance...

A group of “anti-foreclosure” protestors disrupted a lecture given by Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Mel Watt at Harvard Law School on Monday, eventually leading to the event being prematurely canceled amid security concerns. According to the Harvard Crimson , the event was supposed to be a “fire-side chat” about the role of the FHFA and federal housing policy, but scores of housing rights advocates...

Rickie Blue-Sky will appear before the California parole board on Wednesday. He has spent the past 32 years in prison for an act that he has always asserted he did not do. This will be his fifth parole hearing. He is now 70 years old. In 2013, Blue-Sky appeared before the parole board with numerous certificates showing the programs that he had completed as well...