Three highlights from the wonderful world of the Hub this week:
Pulitzer Center's Kelly Hearn is in Ecuador covering what has been dubbed Ecuador's Rainforest Chernobyl and it could turn out to be one of the biggest legal environmental battles ever fought....
The coca plant, used in indigenous cultural rituals and traditional medicines, is also the main ingredient for cocaine....
Several interesting items uploaded to the Hub this week! Be sure to check out these three:
On October 3, 2008, federal and state police in Chiapas, Mexico, carried out a violent operation that left six people dead, 17 injured, and 36 more detained, almost all of whom were inhabitants of the...
On Monday, October 6, Police officers in Quebec, Canada, used tear gas and "pain compliance" techniques on Algonquin families from Barriere Lake First Nation, who had erected a peaceful blockade to ...
Chandra Singh Kulung is Senior Advisor of the Association of Nepal Kirit Kulung Language and Cultural Development....
Mamata Dash, a human rights activist, discusses her work on anti-mining and anti-displacement campaigns in Orissa, India....
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