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Social Movements and States in Latin America: Dancing with Dynamite East Coast Book Tour

Super User November 4, 2010 Super User

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Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America (AK Press)

By Benjamin Dangl

For an excerpt and table of contents, visit www.dancingwithdynamite.com


“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!

“Dancing with Dynamite dares tonavigate the cloudy waters of Latin American social movements in the wake of the neoliberal wave, something which increasingly fewer thinkers and activists dare to do, but which turns out to be urgent.”—Raúl Zibechi, Uruguayan journalist and author of Dispersing Power: Social Movements as Anti-State Forces read more

An Interview with Charlotte Dennett: Bringing G.W. Bush to Justice

Super User June 17, 2010 Super User

In this interview, author and attorney Charlotte Dennett talks about her new book, The People V. Bush: One Lawyer’s Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the National Grassroots Movement She Encounters Along the Way, what led her to run for Vermont state attorney general on a platform to prosecute George W. Bush, the current movement to bring Bush to justice, and connections between the US accountability movement and similar movements around the world.

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African Grandmothers Launch Campaign for Rights and Resources

Super User May 19, 2010 Super User

Source: Pambazuka News

At the close of the historic first African Grandmothers’ Gathering, in Manzini Swaziland, 500 grandmothers from 13 countries issued a clarion call to the world, demanding economic independence, and the necessary resources to build their own capacity to raise healthy families in the midst of the AIDS pandemic.

They called for urgent action to prevent acts of violence against them, to ensure social security and to enact laws that uphold their rights and those of their grandchildren. read more

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How Hollywood Hides the Horrors of War

Super User April 26, 2010 Super User

Source: In These Times

When Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker won all the big Oscars over James Cameron’s Avatar, the victory was perceived as a good sign of the state of things in Hollywood: A modest production meant for independent festivals clearly overran a superproduction whose technical brilliance cannot cover up the flat simplicity of its story. Did this mean that Hollywood is not just a blockbuster machine, but still knows how to appreciate marginal creative efforts? Maybe-but that’s a big maybe. read more