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Lo Cropper

Lo Cropper is a local community organizer with the Claudia Jones School for Political Education in Washington, D.C. He is currently co-chair of the D.C. Alliance Against Racist and Political...

• Unconscious while Black: Justin Robinson’s death by D.C. cop sparks outrage
• D.C. residents blitz Council, demand ceasefire resolution before summer recess

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Nicholis Hall

Nicholis Hall writes from Peoria, Illinois.

• In Peoria, like many other Illinois towns, being homeless is now a crime
• ‘Hate the shame, not the slut’: Peoria activists battle stigma and discrimination

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Tim Dawson

Tim Dawson is deputy general secretary of the International Federation of Journalists.

• Freedom for WikiLeaks’ Julian Assange is cause for celebration

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Tania Del Moral

Tania Del Moral is the Program Assistant and Fundraising Associate for Mexico and Central America at The Latin America Working Group.

• Viva el 43: Se acerca el décimo aniversario de Ayotzinapa
• Long live the 43: Approaching the tenth anniversary of Ayotzinapa

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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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