Nestora Salgado, U.S. citizen and indigenous rights leader, is a political prisoner in Mexico — a casualty of the raging war against indigenous people there. She began by making frequent… Read more »
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In memory of TJ Hickey: Australians launch a global campaign against Aboriginal deaths in custody
For three decades, the Freedom Socialist Party in Australia has been a leader in the campaign to halt the criminal toll of Aboriginal people killed by police brutality and callous… Read more »
La campaña para liberar a Nestora Salgado de la cárcel mexicana recibe apoyo internacional
Cuando la líder indígena Nestora Salgado, residente del estado de Washington y ciudadana naturalizada de EEUU, viajó al sur de la frontera de EEUU y México el año pasado, no… Read more »
Campaign to free Nestora Salgado from Mexican jail gains international support
For more coverage on Nestora’s story, see our other article here. When indigenous leader Nestora Salgado, a Washington state resident and naturalized U.S. citizen, traveled south of the U.S.-Mexico border… Read more »
Microcredit: good cause or neoliberal fairy tale?
In 1976, Bangladeshi economist Dr. Muhammad Yunus came up with the notion that poverty could be solved in developing countries with “microloans” — lending small amounts of money to poor… Read more »
La difícil batalla para liberar a Nestora Salgado
Nestora Salgado es ciudadana naturalizada de los Estados Unidos y líder indígena en su pueblo natal de México, Olinalá, Guerrero. El verano pasado, las autoridades mexicanas la encarcelaron debido a… Read more »
The uphill fight to free Nestora Salgado
Nestora Salgado is both a naturalized U.S. citizen and an indigenous leader in her Mexican hometown of Olinalá, Guerrero. Last summer, Mexican authorities jailed her on trumped-up charges related to… Read more »
Michoacán, Guerrero … el pueblo armado y su derecho a hacerlo
La aparición de las policías comunitarias y las autodefensas, un fenómeno extendido a trece estados del país, es uno de los grandes acontecimientos políticos ya no sólo en el plano… Read more »
Mexico: the right of civilian self-defense
The emergence of community police and self-defense groups (las autodefensas) in thirteen of Mexico’s states is a major political event nationally, but also internationally. It is not every day that… Read more »
FreeNestora.org
Good news — on March 31, all federal charges against Nestora Salgado were dismissed! Needed next: get the state charges dropped. Supporters continue to campaign for her freedom. For the… Read more »
