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Vicki Gass

Vicki Gass, Executive Director of the Latin America Working Group (LAWG), has been working on Central American social and economic justice issues since 1984 and has lived in both El...

• Perspectivas de los derechos humanos en Guatemala y El Salvador
• Two elections, two outcomes: Prospects for human rights in Guatemala and El Salvador

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Sebastiaan Faber

Sebastiaan Faber teaches at Oberlin College and is a member of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (ALBA) Board.

• Recovering the Black antifascist tradition in U.S. history

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Lisa Haugaard

Lisa Haugaard, senior fellow of the Latin America Working Group, has spearheaded advocacy on human rights and peace issues in Latin America for two decades. She conducts advocacy on Colombia,...

• Listen to the human rights defenders: Lessons from a Colombian paramilitary warlord’s testimony

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Jayme Lozano Carver

Jayme Lozano Carver is the Texas Tribune’s Lubbock-based reporter, covering the South Plains and Panhandle through a partnership with Report for America.

• Maternal care dangerously lacking in rural Texas counties

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Scott Sonner

Scott Sonner is an Associated Press Reno correpondent covering news, sports, politics, environment and everything else, in Nevada and the West.

• Las Vegas shooting victims horrified over SCOTUS ruling on bump stocks

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Jesse Bedayn

Jesse Bedayn is a statehouse reporter for The Associated Press based in Denver. He is a Report for America corps member.

• Las Vegas shooting victims horrified over SCOTUS ruling on bump stocks

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Yael Glassman

Yael Glassman is an activist writing from Philadelphia.

• Philadelphia coffee boss shutters all stores to avoid unionization

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Brian Carss

Brian Carss is a communications intern at Americans for Financial Reform and a recent graduate of North Carolina State University.

• Congress for sale: Cryptocurrency firms write regulations governing their own industry

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Ellen von zur Muehlen

Ellen von zur Muehlen is a graduate student at UCLA and a member of UAW Local 4811.

• UN’s COP30 busts, but the fight goes on
• Newsom makes news, but he still needs a working-class agenda

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