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Category Archives: Rights are Fundamental
Landesa on why land rights published in Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs Publishes Article by Tim Hanstad
May 7, 2015 – Foreign Affairs magazine published an editorial by Landesa CEO Tim Hanstad sharing insights on why efforts to fight poverty can be self-defeating if those efforts don’t protect peoples’ land rights. | Read the article via Foreign Affairs
What is happening Arlington, VA?
According to an analysis of police data by USA Today last year, Arlington’s arrest rate for African Americans was 202.9 per 1,000 residents 2011-2012, compared to 30.6 per 1,000 residents for arrests of non-blacks.
Pope Francis encourages Americans to attend to Climate Change
Americans are Again Getting Worried about Climate Change
“Humanity is called to take note of the need for changes in lifestyle and changes in methods of production and consumption to combat this warming, or at least the human causes that produce and accentuate it,” the document says. “The attitudes that stand in the way of a solution, even among believers, range from negation of the problem, to indifference, to convenient resignation or blind faith in technical solutions.”
Pope Francis
Is America going backwards?
In May, a really alarming thing happened to Apache cultural and land rights. See the full story here: Selling Off Apache Holy Land
Trails and Tangents 