In a departure from many international programs of “teaching” and “aiding” Haitians, Jose Luis Patrola of Brazil’s Rural Landless Workers’ Movement speaks here about mutual learning and respect.
Source: Democracy Now
(Photo courtesy of Rebecca Kemble)
More than a thousand Wisconsin workers marched through Madison, Wisconsin, today to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s “budget repair” bill that slashes collective bargaining rights and funding for education, healthcare and seniors’ programs. During the march, police took into custody two credentialed journalists who were filming the protest.
Democracy Now! spoke with one of the reporters, Sam Mayfield, about 15 minutes after she was cited for disorderly conduct and released. Mayfield has been documenting protests in Madison since February for an upcoming documentary.
On Wednesday, April 27 at Burlington College in Vermont, Toward Freedom is hosting an event on the movement for democracy in post-coup Honduras.
A major dilemma facing social movements across Latin America is how to deal with the state -- or avoid it -- when working for social change. This Toward Freedom-organized Left Forum panel and discussion will look at this contemporary relationship in Honduras, Bolivia, Venezuela and Argentina.
Toward Freedom editor Ben Dangl will be on a west coast book tour in March with his new book, Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America.
“Ben Dangl breaks the sound barrier, exploding many myths about Latin America that are all-too-often amplified by the corporate media in the United States. Read this much-needed book.”—Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now!
In the past decade, grassroots social movements played major roles in electing left-leaning governments throughout Latin America, but subsequent relations between the streets and the states remain uneasy. In Dancing with Dynamite, award-winning journalist Benjamin Dangl explores the complex ways these movements have worked with, against, and independently of national governments. From dynamite-wielding miners in Bolivia to the struggles of landless farmers in Brazil and Paraguay, Dangl discusses the dance between movements and states in seven different Latin American countries. Using original research, lively prose, and extensive interviews with workers, farmers, and politicians, he suggests how Latin American social movement strategies could be applied internationally to build a better world now.
Film Screening of Crossing the American Crisis: From Collapse to Action
Saturday, February 26 · 7:00pm – 9:00pm
Vermont Workers’ Center – 294 N Winooski Avenue, Burlington, VT 05401
Free and Open to the Public, Parking Available
Join us at the Vermont Workers’ Center to see the debut screening of Crossing the American Crisis: From Collapse to Action. From filmmakers, Michael Fox and Sílvia Leindecker, Crossing the Crisis explores the recent financial meltdown and current economic crisis from the perspective of American workers. The film features the Vermont Workers’ Center and other grassroots organizations. Michael Fox will be at the VWC to present his film.
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