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Beyond Elections in the Americas: An Interview with Michael Fox

Benjamin Dangl and Michael Fox March 25, 2009 Benjamin Dangl and Michael Fox

The new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas proves that democracy can and should be more than casting a ballot every four years. This empowering film gives hopeful and concrete examples from around the Americas of people taking back the reigns of power and governing their own communities. Beyond Elections is a road map for social change, drawing from communal councils in Venezuela and social movements in Bolivia to participatory budgeting in Brazil and worker cooperatives in Argentina.

Sex Trafficking: The Abolitionist Fallacy

Ann Jordan March 24, 2009 Ann Jordan

Economic hardship, discrimination, and violence have driven millions of women to work in the sex sector around the world, and their numbers will increase as a result of the current global economic crisis. Unless the underlying factors pushing women to opt for selling sex to support themselves and their families are remedied, many women will continue to have few other options.

Deconstructing U.S. Militarism: Humanism and the Peace Revolution

Jeff Nall March 18, 2009 Jeff Nall

The time has come for humanists to actively assert that they are as committed peace and ending U.S. militarism as they are to the separation of church and state. Humanists, atheists, and assorted freethinkers should join anti-war/peace organizations in assertively calling for a dramatic change in U.S. foreign policy away from neoliberal imperialism and militarism.

Why Are So Many Women Still Dying in Childbirth?

Chris Brazier March 17, 2009 Chris Brazier

Habibu is lying on matting on the mud floor of her hut. The contractions are coming thick and fast now. The pain is intense, but she draws comfort from the memory that, the previous three times, this agony gave way to the peaceful, exhausted bliss of holding her baby in her arms.

Decolonization’s Rocky Road: Corruption, Expropriation and Justice in Bolivia

Benjamin Dangl March 16, 2009 Benjamin Dangl

El Alto Anniversary Event. Photo: Quintana/ABI

After the nationalist confetti of the January 25th constitutional referendum blew away, and the busted water balloons and foam of Carnival washed down the streets with the rain, political scandals filled the Bolivian airwaves. Besides the challenges of applying the changes in the new constitution, recent cases of government corruption, shaky relations with Washington and political unrest show that the road to the December general elections is likely to be a rocky one.

Grassroots Beer Brewers Score a Victory in Utah

Benjamin Dangl March 3, 2009 Benjamin Dangl

Just three companies control approximately 80 percent of the beer industry in the US. Brewing beer at home is one way to counter this corporate monopoly. However, Mississippi, Kentucky, Alabama and Oklahoma still outlaw the craft. Recently, a victory for homebrewers was scored in Utah, when on February 19th the State Senate legalized homebrewing, bringing the state out of the shadows of prohibition.