Marta Harnecker: Ideas For The Struggle
The left should avoid allowing the right to set its agenda for struggle.
Anne Winkler-Morey | U.S. and Latin America Beyond the Border Wall
The roots and strength of local grassroots organizations
Anne Winkler-Morey | U.S. and Latin America Beyond the Border Wall
The roots and strength of local grassroots organizations
Indigenous Rights Are Key to Preserving Forests, Climate Change Study Finds
When communities have secure forest rights, not only are forests better protected, but communities fare better.
52% of Latinos in the US Suffer Discrimination
Around 52 percent of Latinos in the nation claim to have been ill-treated because of their race or ethnicity, in a country that has 56.6 million Latinos, according to the survey.
Juan Cole | World More Violent in Past Year, but Middle East Drives Deterioration (Video)
If the GPI is right about what produces peace, you’d have to conclude that the US is heading toward increased violence.
▶ Noam Chomsky: The U.S. Is Trying to Put an End to Its Extreme Isolation
The renowned activist and linguist weighs in on the recent shift in relations between Cuba and the United States, as well as drone strikes in Yemen and the activities of the leftist parties Syriza and Podemos in Greece and Spain, among other current events, in an interview on RT’s “Going Underground.” truthdig.com April 18, 2015 More
▶ Democracy Now! Remembering Eduardo Galeano, Champion of Social Justice & Chronicler of Latin America’s Open Veins
We have a memory cut in pieces. And I write trying to recover our real memory, the memory of humankind, what I call the human rainbow, which is much more colorful and beautiful than the other one, the other rainbow. But the human rainbow had been mutilated by machismo, racism, militarism and a lot of More
Anne Winkler-Morey: Venezuela and the New Latin America
The Latin America of the 21st century is not so easily controlled by gunboat and dollar diplomacy. In spite of dire media reports about Venezuela, U.S. power is on the decline while cooperation between Latin American states is increasing. By Anne Winkler-Morey WAMM Newsletter Spring II 2014 Venezuela moved to the front page as a More
Henry Giroux: Hope in the Age of Looming Authoritarianism
We blame the poor, homeless, unemployed and recent graduates suffocating under financial debt for their plight as if individual responsibility explains the ballooning gap in wealth, income and power and the growing state violence that supports it. Poor people end up in debtor jail for not paying parking tickets or their bills while the corrupt More
[Video] Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer on the Culture of War and National Security State
[vimeo http://vimeo.com/70658690] Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer speaking at Peacestock 2013 from Bill Sorem PLUS 1 week ago Jack Nelson-Pallmeyer is Associate Professor of Justice and Peace Studies at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota. Jack is a graduate of St. Olaf College where he majored in Political Science. He did his theological training at Union Theological Seminary in New More
James Petras> Colombia’s Quest for Peace and Justice: The International and National Context
Colombia’s Quest for Peace and Justice: The International and National Context by James Petras February 28, 2012 Global Research Introduction Between April 21 -23, the National Patriotic Council will convoke thousands of activists from most of the major urban and rural social movements and trade unions, human rights groups and indigenous , afro-colombian movements, More