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Indigenous movement
Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador's indigenous movement Marlon Vargas is the new president of Ecuador’s Indigenous movement CONAIE

After a close vote, Vargas defeated Leonidas Iza, former presidential candidate and current president of CONAIE, the country’s most powerful grassroots organization.

The people’s struggle will free Leonard Peltier

Peoples Dispatch speaks to Gloria La Riva, who has spent decades in the movement to free the longest-held political prisoner in the United States

The longest held political prisoner in the United States just got his first hearing in over a decade

After 47 years behind bars, Leonard Peltier’s supporters in the Indigenous movement continue to fight for his release