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The Legacy of Berta Cáceres: What Environmentalists Can Learn From Human Rights Groups

Does anyone doubt a link between the work of frontline environmentalists and global warming? Yet how many activists, let alone the public, are aware of the rising murder toll of local environmental activists?

Practicing journalism in a smaller, riskier world

Printing presses inked out text in different written languages for over a 1,000 years, and, in more recent centuries, gave rise to the term we still use for news outlets: the press.

In Oakland, Progress in Bailey Murder Prosecution

Irregularities in the Oakland police investigation into the murder of one of the Bay area’s most respected community journalist, Chauncy Bailey, have been called out by Bay-area colleagues.

Death of an Anthropologist

An unusual cartoon appeared recently in a Guatemalan newspaper. It showed the small figure of Helen Mack swinging a hammer, chipping away at a towering brick wall that symbolized more than thirty-seven years of military impunity. Helen Mack is leading her family’s investigation of the September 1990 assassination of her sister, Myrna…