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

Burkina Faso and Thomas Sankara

Burkina Faso remains one of the ten least developed countries of the world. The 1983-87 Burkina revolution, Sankara acknowledged, was occurring in a backward, agricultural, semi-feudal country where there was not yet ‘an organized working class, conscious of its historic mission.” He sought to build a national economy based more on domestic markets and interests. … Continue reading Burkina Faso and Thomas Sankara

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

Afro-American, African, Women, Labor, and Latin America Film Series

Sundays,  2pm Loyola University (downtown) Corboy Law Center, room 422,   25 E. Pearson Street, Chicago January 12     Negroes with Guns: Robert Williams and Black Power (2004) Williams was a NAACP leader in the late 50s –early 60s South who advocated Blacks arm themselves for self-defense as a practical matter of survival against the … Continue reading Afro-American, African, Women, Labor, and Latin America Film Series

Report on the International Peoples Tribunal on Leonard Peltier

https://zcomm.org/znetarticle/report-on-the-international-peoples-tribunal-on-leonard-peltier-by-stan-smith/ “Manifest Destiny was a terrible doctrine that cost the lives of millions of our native peoples.” “We are the subjects of the longest undeclared war in the history of the United States.”               Dennis Banks     “The FBI is the continuation of historic US policy, the modern day cavalry.”  Bill Means … Continue reading Report on the International Peoples Tribunal on Leonard Peltier