2014

New York City – Like many children of undocumented immigrants, Lupe Martinez has lived a precarious life. Lupe’s parents migrated to the United States by way of Oaxaca, Mexico, living without the legal status that their daughter attained at birth...

New York City, United States - Standing in Marcus Garvey Park in Harlem, Frank Mills puffs on a thinly rolled marijuana cigarette, exhaling a long thin stream of smoke towards downtown Manhattan.

Flagstaff, United States – On the southwestern corner of the Navajo reservation, Twin Arrows Casino Resort towers over the empty Arizona desert, its lurid neon lights drawing travellers from the historic Route 66 highway to its bright Las Vegas-style gaming...

New York City, United States – More than 300,000 people converged on New York City to attend what organisers called the largest single climate change march in history.

Last week, at a park in New Mexico’s capital city of Santa Fe, tens of thousands of people gathered to watch the annual burning of what may be the world’s largest marionette.

The success of the pioneering Bitcoin has inspired a proliferation of new cryptocurrencies around the globe, and last week, six Israeli developers introduced their own virtual coin in an attempt to counter the concentration of power and wealth within the...

Occupied East Jerusalem – For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home. He gave his bed to his three small children whose room he was forced to destroy earlier this year, to...

Occupied East Jerusalem - For the past two months, Hamzah Abu Terr has slept on the floor of his home. He gave his bed to his three small children whose room he was forced to destroy earlier this year, to...

Israel’s aggressive vigilance of its borders has resulted in the loss of another Palestinian life. On Wednesday, 15-year-old Yousef Nayif Yousef Shawamrah Abu-Akar was shot dead by an Israeli soldier in the south Hebron hills.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas visited the White House on Monday, where he spoke with President Barack Obama about the peace negotiations with Israel that began last July and have continued amid growing violence and expanding Israeli settlement construction in the...

In December, the American Studies Association (ASA) answered the call from Palestinian civil society and endorsed the boycott of Israeli academic institutions, a milestone for the controversial Boycott Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign, which has only recently begun to make...

In 1945, the world’s first nuclear weapon was detonated at the Trinity site, in New Mexico’s Chihuahuan Desert. The massive blast pulled the white desert sand up into an atomic fireball, the heat transforming the granules into green glass that...

In 2006, Mutussam Abu Karsh was playing soccer in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank shell exploded, ripping his leg and part of his hand from his body.

Mounds of radioactive waste dot the eastern portion of the Navajo Nation in the US state of New Mexico. The earthen monoliths contain contaminated material from the more than 250 abandoned uranium minesthat once provided the raw materials for the...