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Visit to a Prison within a Prison

Robin Lloyd August 24, 2006 Robin Lloyd

Robin and her son, Jesse

Robin Lloyd, videographer, peace activist and chair of the Toward Freedom board, recently spent three months in prison for 'crossing the line' (committing civil disobedience) at the School of the Americas (renamed WHINSEC - Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation) ) at Fort Benning, Georgia. She says "the setting of the Danbury Prison Camp in rural Connecticut is beautiful, the food was OK, and meeting a lot of new people was enlightening, but encountering the prison-industrial complex up close and personal was awesomely upsetting.

Latin America Now: An Interview with Raúl Zibechi

Benjamin Dangl, Translated by GeN Higgs August 23, 2006 Benjamin Dangl, Translated by GeN Higgs

In this interview, Raúl Zibechi discusses the challenges of the Evo Morales administration in Bolivia, the power and role of Bolivian social movements, projects for regional integration such as People's Trade Agreement and the Bolivarian Alternative for Latin America and the region's new situation after the electoral victories of various "progressive" governments.

Clandestine “Summer Reading”

Matt Dineen August 17, 2006 Matt Dineen

"This is nice, light summer reading." I look up, smiling, at the customer who proclaimed this about one of the best-selling new releases at the bookstore where I work. This whole concept of "summer reading" has been on my mind ever since I left this job when the season began to pursue something vaguely resembling a summer vacation. Now I'm back and, with one more hot and sticky month to go, the reading masses are still in search for the perfect summer book-something nice and light.

Feeding Ourselves: Organic Urban Gardens in Caracas, Venezuela

April M. Howard August 10, 2006 April M. Howard

In the middle of the modern, concrete city of Caracas, Venezuela, Noralí Verenzuela is standing in a garden dressed in jeans and work boots. She is the director of the Organopónico Bolivar I, the first urban, organic garden to show its green face in the heart of the city of Caracas, Venezuela.

Repression during peasant evictions in 2004

The US Military Descends on Paraguay

Benjamin Dangl, The Nation July 26, 2006 Benjamin Dangl, The Nation

While hitchhiking across Paraguay a few years ago, I met welcoming farmers who let me camp in their backyards. I eventually arrived in Ciudad del Este, known for its black markets and loose borders. Now the city and farmers I met are caught in the crossfire of the US military's "war on terror."

Going Nuclear Again

Sandy Leon Vest June 29, 2006 Sandy Leon Vest

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.