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Above Photo: A woman sits with her child next the barrier separating the protesters in their encampment from the Presidential Palace. All photos by Jeff Abbott. On August 8, one hundred Q’eqchi Maya families from the Department of Alta Verapaz arrived to the historic center of Guatemala City, the nation’s capital, to establish a permanent presence […]
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Guatemala’s Indigenous Campesinos Occupy Capitol Ove Land Conflicts
August 19th, 2017 
Awake Goy 
Posted in World News 
Tags: campesinos, capitol, conflicts, guatemala, indigenous, occupy 
No Comments »Dorothy Day Refuses To Duck-And-Cover
June 13th, 2016 Awake Goy Print Friendly Above Photo: A huge cloud above Hiroshima, a few hours after the initial explosion on Aug. 6, 1945. (Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum/U.S. Army via AP) On June 15th, 1955, Catholic Worker founder Dorothy Day joined a group of pacifists in refusing to participate in the civilian defense drills scheduled on that day. These drills were to […]
