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		<title>Chihuahua News: Aid Alone Won&#8217;t Solve Environmental Disaster</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 28 Jan 2012 04:55:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In many cities, Mexicans are responding to the environmental and hunger crisis in Chihuahua&#8217;s Sierra Tarahumara with an outpouring of material aid donations and declarations of solidarity. Indigenous Raramuri leaders from the drought-stricken mountains were among rural activists who staged a demonstration this week in Mexico City claiming lack of government support for alleviating the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fewer but Deadlier Border Crossings</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Migrant crossings and Border Patrol apprehensions of undocumented immigrants might be sharply down, but attempting to cross the U. S.-Mexico border without the proper papers could be a much deadlier proposition than in the past. Mexican consular reports reveal that while 369 Mexican nationals died during presumed border crossings in 2004- a year when much [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Third World-Style Economies Proliferate</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Jan 2012 00:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pirate profiteers and street merchants are central players in the economies of Mexico and other nations of the developing world. Although informal businesses are far from new in the United States, recent reports indicate they are growing in scope and diversity. In the pinnacle of advanced capitalism, commercial transactions based on hard cash and record-free [...]]]></description>
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		<title>100 Years of No Workers’ Comp  for Ag Workers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jan 2012 20:43:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; Frontera News Service &#160; For the nearly one hundred years that New Mexico has been a U.S. state, farm and ranch workers have been excluded from the state workers’ compensation system.  The labor force was systematically left out of legislation passed in 1917, 1937, 1973 and 1990. Despite the exclusion, contributions to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Year of Smoke, Ashes and Rebellion</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2012 20:16:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; FNS Editor‘s Note: Frontera NorteSur is generally loathe to join the annual media ritual of regurgitating the year’s stories and classifying them in order of importance. The editor will make no such arbitrary  judgments, but by any measure 2011 was an extraordinary year and some  reflection seems called for at this time. So in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Contesting and Reclaiming the Holidays</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 05:17:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The El Paso-Ciudad Juarez borderland was hopping with activity in recent days. In downtown El Paso, lumbering city buses navigated between crowds of shoppers searching for a cheap, potential present made by Chinese or Vietnamese or Pakistani hands. Not far away, the piñata and candy shops on gritty Alameda Avenue were festooned in green, blue, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Groups Protest Citizen Detentions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pro-immigrant and civil liberties groups are stepping up the pressure against  US Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Secure Communities program. Designed to remove immigrant lawbreakers from the United States, Secure Communities enlists local law enforcement agencies in a cooperative relationship with ICE in order to identify, hold and deport foreign nationals. But a coalition of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>High tech, low speed: Border crossers encounter new delays</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:53:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an e-mail to constituents this month, El Paso Congressman Silvestre Reyes lauded the November opening of a new, high-tech pedestrian crossing system at the Paso del Norte (Santa Fe) Bridge between Ciudad Juarez and El Paso. With assistance from the Unisys Corporation, the maze-like system uses a combination of revolving doors, hand-held mobile devices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Hanging Tough in Juarez</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Dec 2011 19:57:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Under the circumstances, even the most stubborn personalities steeled in adversity would probably call it quits. Inside the corridors of the big marketplace, an odd tranquility reigns as the vendors wait for customers. Outside, the day is broken by the occasional sound of ambulances rushing off probably to attend the latest shooting victim. “Absolutely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Special Report: The Avenue of Missing Women</title>
		<link>http://www.grass-roots-press.com/2011/12/07/special-report-the-avenue-of-missing-women/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 06:34:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shot and wounded in a December 2 incident outside her home, Ciudad Juarez teacher Norma Andrade was released from the hospital this week. A decade ago, Andrade became an outspoken activist after her 17-year-old daughter, Lilia Alejandra Garcia, was kidnapped, tortured and brutally murdered. Along with others, Andrade founded Nuestras Hijas de Regreso a Casa [...]]]></description>
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