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Letter from Bolivia

Dear TF Readers,

For the next two months, Toward Freedom will be publishing three articles per week instead of four. This isn’t a sign that we’ve ran into trouble, in fact TF is doing better than ever. Our readership is growing and the fund drive was huge success.

This new publishing schedule was set up in part so I (the editor) can focus on another project. I’ve relocated from Vermont to Bolivia where I’ll be finishing a book called “The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia.” The book will be published by AK Press this March. Operating out of Bolivia will also help TF expand its writer base to include more people involved in the popular struggles here. Please stay tuned for more reports from this hopeful part of the world.  I’ll be blogging from Bolivia at this address. To read the first of many article’s I’ll be writing from the country, click here. read more

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Going Nuclear Again

It is the 21st century - the age of terrorism and 'long wars.' Yet in the US and abroad, nuclear power, that 20th century energy behemoth, is quietly coming back.  If successful, it threatens to plunge the global populous into unseen levels of darkness and despair. 

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Media Discussion Email List

Independent Media: Hopes and Challenges

This is an email list which continues the discussion started at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela (1/06) at a panel organized by Toward Freedom and Between the Lines Radio entitled, Independent Media: Hopes and Challenges 

Through this email list we continue exchanging ideas, analysis and information about how to build and improve independent media. The email list includes articles, links and thoughts related to this topic.

If you would like to subscribe to this list, please send an email to  read more

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WINDS OF CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE

What?
WINDS OF CHANGE IN THE AMERICAS CONFERENCE

Why?
-Our keynote speaker, Leonida Zurita Vargas, is an indigenous woman from Bolivia, a coca farmer and powerful grassroots leader who will shed light on Bolivia’s strong and growing social movements and recent election of a new government under Aymara indigenous President Evo Morales. (See below update on Leonida who was, last week, denied entry to the US by the US embassy that has outrageously suggested that Leonida has ties to terrorist organziations! IF WE CAN’T GET LEONIDA HERE IN PERSON SHE’LL BE ON THE PHONE!) George Ann Potter, Zurita’s political advisor, will be talking at the conference as well as translating and introducing Leonida. read more

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The Demise of a President, Constitutional Irrelevency and the Media That Failed to Notice

January 20, 2006 should have been heralded in headlines across the nation as a historical turning point in US history. Instead, Conyers et Ors Hearing on Domestic Spying, headed by Representative John Conyers, Jr. (D-Mich), was literally and figuratively held underground in the dark recesses of the nation's capitol building. The hearings, which featured a politically variegated roster of witnesses, took place in room B339 of the Rayburn House Office Building. The 'B' stands for basement. According to the Majority party, it was the only room available. This despite the fact that the briefing was held on a day when no other hearings were being held and the rest of Congress was on vacation.