Source: Venezuela Analysis Mérida, March 5th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) — Following a week of inspections of privately owned rice processing facilities aimed at assuring the supply of essential foods at regulated prices, the Venezuelan government initiated […]
The new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas proves that democracy can and should be more than casting a ballot every four years. This empowering film gives hopeful and concrete examples from around the Americas of people taking back the reigns of power and governing their own communities. […]
El precio del fuego Las luchas por los recursos naturales y los movimientos sociales en Bolivia Un diálogo con el periodista Benjamin Dangl Sábado, 4 de Abril, 19:30 en Fundación Vida Joven (Granaderos 1785, esquina […]
This week five hundred people representing over a hundred social movement groups from across the Americas gathered in Medellín for a People’s Development Alternatives Assembly coinciding with the 50th anniversary meeting of the Inter-American Development Bank. […]
Source: World War 4 Report The UN High Commissioner of Human Rights issued a report March 25 finding that opponents of Bolivian President Evo Morales were responsible for some of the Andean country’s worst human […]
Download this report as a PDF March 24, 2009: Please see http://cispes.org/09electionsblog/ for more complete coverage from Election Day Starting at 7am on Sunday March 15, Salvadorans headed en masse to the polls to cast […]
Now and then there emerges somewhere in the world a social movement that is really exceptional for its integrity, astuteness and mass appeal. For me one of those rare movements is Brazil’s Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST, the Landless Workers’ Movement). Ever since it was founded in the early 1980s it has confounded predictions of its imminent demise. […]
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