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Learning from Latin American Social Movements: Book Release Event in Vermont

Toward Freedom November 18, 2010 Toward Freedom

A book release discussion and celebration with Ben Dangl, author of the new book, Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America.

Refreshments, wine, homemade cider and delicious snacks provided

Free and open to the public.

Organized and sponsored by Toward Freedom

November 19, 6 – 8pm
Burlington, VT
Firehouse Gallery, Upstairs
135 Church St
Burlington, VT

Website: http://www.burlingtoncityarts.com/firehousegallery/

Call 802-540-2516 for more info.

Information on the book: www.dancingwithdynamite.com read more

Haiti: The People Must Be Agents of Change

Josette Pérard and Beverly Bell November 18, 2010 Josette Pérard and Beverly Bell

If Haiti and our communities were organized, development activities would come just from the initiative of the community members themselves.

Crops of Truth: The Revolutionary Knowledge of Seeds in India

Jaideep Hardikar November 16, 2010 Jaideep Hardikar

This article travels to the bottom of the social scale, and the women of rural south India, to discover where knowledge and wisdom about seeds are still to be found.

Advice for Water Warriors

Maude Barlow November 11, 2010 Maude Barlow

Source: Yes Magazine

We all know that the Earth and all upon it face a growing crisis. Global climate change is rapidly advancing, melting glaciers, eroding soil, causing freak and increasingly wild storms, and displacing untold millions from rural communities to live in desperate poverty in peri-urban slums. Almost every human victim lives in the global South, in communities not responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The atmosphere has already warmed up almost a full degree in the last several decades and a new Canadian study reports that we may be on course to add another 6 degrees Celsius (10.8 degrees Fahrenheit) by 2100. read more

Roma Punks Rise At The Right Time

Stuart Munckton November 10, 2010 Stuart Munckton

Source: Green Left Weekly

“My next guests are a gypsy punk rock band that have been called the world’s most visionary band”, US TV show host Jay Leno said when he introduced Gogol Bordello to close the October 13, 2010. Jay Leno Show.

The US-based band, led by a charismatic Roma (or “gypsy”) refugee from the Ukraine, Eugene Hutz, performed “Pala Tute”, the opening track from this year’s Transcontinental Hustle.

If “most visionary” is an exaggeration, Gogol Bordello could at least lay claim to being one of the most interesting and important acts in popular music right now. read more

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

Toward Freedom November 4, 2010 Toward Freedom

(Scroll down for tour dates and locations)

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