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JANUARY 24, 2024

La Toma is an Afro-Colombian community that has long sat at the intersection of extractive industries—especially gold mining—and violence from right-wing paramilitaries, guerillas, and government forces. Many older activists today involved in US Latin America solidarity were trained in techniques and tactics during this movement.

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APRIL 30, 2024

He also worked for the US government, polygraphing German prisoners of war during World War II, as well as hundreds of employees of the top-secret uranium production facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee. appeared first on Anthropology News. He persuaded banks that it would help them identify employees who embezzled.

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JANUARY 26, 2024

Her cowboy outfit at the border fence—a site of cruelty, dispossession, and social and ecological genocide—directly referenced the frontier and its forced ownership by the US government. Sarah Muir and Michael Wroblewski are the section contributing editors for the Society for Linguistic Anthropology.

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