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The USAID may appear to give a helping hand all over the world, but there are always very dangerous strings attached.
This week we hear about US relations with Nicaragua, and the introductory webinar for the People’s Senate. But first the effort to provide abortion access in Texas, a state which has banned the…
The Texas Equal Access Fund works to expand access to abortion care while simultaneously shifting culture towards reproductive justice.
The Central American nation of Nicaragua has been the focus of US interventionism ever since the Sandinista revolution which occurred in 1979.
The upcoming introductory webinar of the Peoples' Senate will be held on Saturday, February 18.
