As news of the U.S.-backed coup d’état in Bolivia and the Nov. 10 forced resignation of President Evo Morales hit the airwaves and social media, activists around the globe took to the streets to demand Morales’ return to office. Protests began on Nov. 11 in multiple cities in the U.S., . . .
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Published Nov. 15 on pagina12.org.ar. Translation by John Catalinotto. This time peasants with red ponchos, women and men with hats, who came from afar, from above in the highlands. Then they joined all those who could get to the city of El Alto. Others were held back as they tried . . .
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Cleveland is a midwestern city of roughly 400,000 people. Not much that happens there makes national news. But even the New York Times covered the Nov. 14 brawl between members of the Cleveland Browns and the Pittsburgh Steelers in the National Football League. With the Browns leading 21-7 and only . . .
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Details are still emerging about the recent coup in Bolivia, which removed President Evo Morales from power. Under Morales, the first Indigenous president in Bolivia and in South America, the government nationalized key industries and raw materials, directing profits to social programs that benefited the poor, largely Indigenous population. The . . .
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Mike Africa Jr. presented an engrossing, dynamic one-person narrative, “Born on the MOVE,” for almost two hours here at the Solidarity Center on Nov. 16. He began this emotional, political journey by describing how his mother, Debbie Africa, gave birth to him by herself in secret on Sept. 15, 1978, . . .
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Some 40,000 Yellow Vest supporters came out in the French streets Nov. 16 to protest in Paris as well as in Lille in the north and Marseilles, Toulouse, Nantes in southern France, according to organizers. It was the one-year anniversary of the start of their movement. While the weekly Saturday . . .
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