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Portland Bandleader Teargassed While in Ecuador Saving the World: Ojos Feos – Revolución – The Latin Spring, by Robbie Cree

To the best of my recollection, I can’t recall ever being tear-gassed. My first instinct should have been to turn around and run away from the plaza, like everyone else, screaming and covering their mouths. The old, indigenous woman, with the multiple petticoats and black pork pie hat, sitting at her usual location half-way up …

Portland Band Ojos Feos Works to Raise Awareness of Global Medical Need and Politically Induced Suffering, by Robbie Cree

“It is Free. It costs nothing,” stated the anesthesiologist to the boy’s family. “To put your son to sleep for his surgery costs absolutely nothing! It is Free! Free! But to wake him up?…very very expensive!” Indeed. Moments earlier, in the same pre-operative area in this public hospital in a large Central American city, I …