The earthquake in Haiti on 12 January 2010 proved so devastating partly because the country’s development model had failed so completely. Now those funding the reconstruction of the country are pursuing the same disastrous path.
How does one learn nonviolent resistance? The same way that Martin Luther King Jr. did—by study, reading and interrogating seasoned tutors.
Following Governor Scott Walker’s announcement of his controversial 'Budget Repair Bill,' the people of Wisconsin rose up, occupied their state capitol and took to the streets as rarely seen in American History. TF contributor Sam Mayfield is working on a new documentary on this people's uprising in Wisconsin.
Chavannes Jean-Baptiste is the Executive Director of the Peasant Movement of Papay in Haiti, the oldest peasant organization in Haiti, and, in Chavannes’ words, “possibly the oldest in the world.”
SOA Watch, the grassroots movement to close the School of the Americas, has documented countless cases of human rights abuses perpetrated by the school’s graduates.
Civil libertarians raise alarm over America’s national surveillance network.
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