Category: Latin America

Report on the New Economic and Social Changes in Cuba

Report on the New Economic and Social Changes in Cuba Thursday July 24, 7pm Loyola University downtown Corboy Law Center Room 423 25 E. Pearson (one block north of Chicago and State L stop)   Trip Report - with photos – Stan Smith, member of the June "Witness for Peace" People to People Education delegation … Continue reading Report on the New Economic and Social Changes in Cuba

Thursday Cuba Films at Loyola Summer 2014

Loyola University - downtown  Corboy Law Center Room 423 25 E. Pearson (one block north of Chicago and State L stop) Thursdays at 7 pm     July 17       Strawberry and Chocolate  Tomas Gutierrez Alea 1995    108 min This breakthrough film did much to change popular attitudes towards gays in Cuba. Diego, a cultivated homosexual and … Continue reading Thursday Cuba Films at Loyola Summer 2014

Ecuador and Bolivia: The Distortions of Ben Dangl and Upside Down World

In The Politics of Pachamama: Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America,  Dangl makes claims such as “indigenous movements have resisted extractivism in defense of their rights, land and the environment” as if  the indigenous movement is opposed to what Dangl calls “extractivism.” Dangl must be counting on being able … Continue reading Ecuador and Bolivia: The Distortions of Ben Dangl and Upside Down World

Loyola African-Women-Labor-Latin America Film Series Jan-June 2014

Loyola Film Series: Winter-Spring 2014 Afro-American, African, Women, Labor, and Latin America Sundays, 2pm Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 422, 25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago (one block north of Chicago & State Red line L stop) January 12   Negroes with Guns: Robert Williams and Black Power (2004) Williams was a NAACP leader in … Continue reading Loyola African-Women-Labor-Latin America Film Series Jan-June 2014