November 2019 - Toward Freedom

Professors in La Paz Call on International Academics to Prioritize Peace, Reconciliation in Bolivia

Professors at the Graduate Center of Development Sciences at the University of San Andres (CIDES-UMSA) November 18, 2019 Professors at the Graduate Center of Development Sciences at the University of San Andres (CIDES-UMSA)

Bolivian professors warn against simplified versions of events unfolding in Bolivia; call to prioritize peace, reconciliation.

Announcing TF’s New Editor: Dawn Marie Paley

Toward Freedom Editor November 18, 2019 Toward Freedom Editor

Greetings readers,

After 14 solid years of working with Toward Freedom, our editor Ben Dangl is stepping away to take up a teaching position at the University of Vermont.

We are thrilled to announce that we have hired a new contributing editor, Dawn Marie Paley. She is based in Mexico and will no doubt bring forth grassroots perspectives and critical investigations from Latin America and beyond.

“I was honored to work at such a historic and critical publication for so long,” said Ben in a farewell message. “It has been a great joy and privilege to work with so many excellent and inspiring writers over the years at TF. Together, we navigated, reported from, and analyzed turbulent times spanning continents, US presidents, people’s uprisings, and years of war and peace. I would like to particularly thank the readers and TF board members who have stood beside us over the years as we worked together for global peace and justice.” read more

Bolivia: Evo’s Fall, the Fascist Right, and the Power of Memory

Raúl Zibechi November 16, 2019 Raúl Zibechi

Between efforts towards restoration and the advance of a coup, the Bolivian people are preparing, again, to resist.

Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: Bolivia’s Lesson in Triumphalism

Toward Freedom Editor November 15, 2019 Toward Freedom Editor

This is the English transcription of Bolivian historian Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui’s intervention at the Women’s Parliament in La Paz, Bolivia, on Tuesday November 12, 2019. Watch the proceedings in their entirety here.

I have a very serious knee problem. They say it is pride. I am proud, in fact, of being a woman, and also of somehow having kept quiet all this time, because to me, this accident has been a gift from the fields. Just this past 23rd I fell while planting with my daughter in Cochabamba, and I take it as a sign that there is a need for a certain politics of silence. read more