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Rise of armed groups
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Photo by: Stuart Palley / Kppc. Rise of armed groups in Mexico prompts hope, fear among LA's michoacanos. Dorian Merina Take Two April 16th, 2014. In Los Angeles, families with close ties to the Mexican state of Michoacán are playing a role in an effort to end the violent drug conflict in their home country, spurring a debate over the armed civilian groups that have risen to counter drug cartels. About a year ago that began to change, when civilian groups began to take up arms and challenge the drug cart...
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Laji singer Filomena Hubalde in Savidug, Batanes. Filomena Hubalde is the last Laji Singer on the remote island of Savidug. The Dumagats, an indigenous group in the Philippines, are fighting deforestation and encroachment to their traditional lands. Pandan Island, off the coast of Mindoro. A bangka crosses the interisland waters near Mindoro. By WOWSlider.com v6.6m. Check out my regular blog, Southeast Asia: News, Culture, Voices. With dispatches from Asia and news about the diaspora in the U.S.
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Rise of armed groups in Mexico prompts hope, fear among LA's michoacanos. Dorian Merina SCPR April 16th, 2014. Photo by: Stuart Palley / KPCC. Let me tell you this: a bullet out of one of them kills just the same as if it comes from the other. Or self-defense groups have emerged as a potent force . Inside LA's courts, overwhelmed by child migrant cases. Dorian Merina SCPR August 27th, 2014. Photo by: John Moore / Getty Images. Check out my regular blog, Southeast Asia: News, Culture, Voices. Check out mo...
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Inside LA's courts
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Photo by: John Moore / Getty Images. Inside LA's courts, overwhelmed by child migrant cases. Dorian Merina Take Two August 27th, 2014. On a recent afternoon at the L.A. immigration courts, 10 children sat on wooden benches facing Judge Ashley Tabaddor. It was their first hearing and, though some came with a parent or guardian, none had an attorney. The youngest, a five-year-old girl, swung her head from the interpreter back to the judge, listening for instructions. That has led to an historic backlog of ...
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Biography
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Arava u ryes a abu su vinyedi. Journalist, poet and author Dorian Merina hails from Los Angeles by way of the Philippines and New York. He is the author of two chapbooks of poetry, The Changegiver. And Stone of the Fish. And a spoken word album, Heaven is a Second Language. The short film, Migrations. For which he wrote and performed the poetry, was awarded the 2008 Poetry Foundation Award. As an educator, he has taught journalism to university students in Malaysia, Indonesia, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and In...
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Articles
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Manila Facing the Forests. Can community land management save forests and fight climate change? By: Dorian Merina May 1, 2011. DORIAN MERINA FOR THE CARAVAN. Rise in border apprehensions shifts to South Texas. By: Dorian Merina Take Two February 4th, 2014. Understaffed immigration judges face rise of migrant cases. By Leslie Berestein Rojas and Dorian Merina Take Two August 29th, 2014. Groups Focus on Coral Triangle to Preserve Tuna, The Jakarta Post, Indonesia. By Dorian Merina, Sept. 29, 2008. Filipino...
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Radio
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One Voice at a Time: Reconciliation in the Middle East. FSRN, January 1, 2010. Remembering Columbia, 1968. This week marked the 40th Anniversary of the student protests at Columbia University. WNYC, April 27, 2008. Graffiti Artist James Top Opens Gallery Show Downtown. WNYC, March 01, 2008. Immigration news: Inside LA's courts, overwhelmed by child migrant cases. SCPR, August 27th, 2014. Rise of armed groups in Mexico prompts hope, fear among LA's michoacanos. SCPR, April 16, 2014. FSRN, October 2011.
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