We get a report on the last night’s discussion at Boulder City Council addressing legislation to reduce the state jail population. Then, we hear about the Bedrooms are for People campaign’s progress toward appearing on the November ballot followed by […]
Today, we look into tracking Coloraodo’s climate footprint with environmental groups pushing for expanded data collection. Then, we hear from Hondurans in Colorado calling on Congress to pass two bills to address root causes of violence in Honduras. We close […]
In 2011 Alfredo Lopez told KGNU that his radio station Faluma Bimetu would not be stopped by arson or any other way. In 2009 after a military coup several community radio stations that were critical of the coup and the newly […]
WASHINGTON-“We are here in honor of Berta Caceres, the indigenous activist and environmentalist who was assassinated last month in Honduras, a country that has been ripped apart since the 2009 military coup with the complicity of the United States, including […]
Organized by Representative Hank Johnson (D-GA) who also co-organized a Dear Colleague Letter addressed to Secretary of State John Kerry calling for a full independent investigation of the assassination, Laura Zúñiga Cáceres gave her account of events leading up to the […]
Yesterday 38-year old Nelson Garcia, an active member of the Civic Council of Popular and Indigenous Organizations of Honduras (COPINH) was assassinated. This follows the March 2, 2016 assassination of COPINH founder Berta Cáceres. Garcia was returning home from assisting those […]
When a 21st century coup d’état ousts the only president they ever believed in, these farmers take over the plantations…with no plans to ever give them back. KGNU will be hosting a screening of the film Resistencia: The Fight for the […]
“The 7 year judicial nightmare is over!!” These were the words today of Greg McCain, a human rights observer who was living in Chicago when he decided over three years ago to move to the Aguan Valley of Honduras to […]
