Zack Kaldveer is an elected Director on the Pacifica National Board as well as the KPFA Local Station Board. Fatinah Judeh is a Palestinian-American and an educator with family in the West Bank.
If passed into law, the Northeastern Arizona Indian Water Rights Settlement Act would resolve the largest outstanding claim on the Colorado River while providing about $5 billion in federal funding to build infrastructure to transport the water across the reservations.
Once one of the world’s most militarized frontiers, the Russia-China border along the Amur River Basin shows how a long-running territorial dispute can evolve from confrontation to integration.