Asking me for the title of my favourite book is like asking a moth for its favourite flame. The fascination seems the same to me,…
Gene Sharp’s slim volume, From Dictatorship to Democracy, outlines why and how non-violent struggle is the warfare of the 21st century, and builds a template for…
Last Saturday, some 3,000 thousand people gathered around Saint Paul’s cathedral in London to “Occupy the London Stock Exchange” (or LSX). Two days later, the…
We have been fighting to get something started in Britain, we’ve been looking to the Arabs (in a remarkable and much appreciated change in point…
Recently I did a presentation to the staff of the Western Center on Law and Poverty about the search for the narrative. The idea being…
Guest blogger Tony Roshan Samara is associate professor of sociology at George Mason University and a resource ally with the Right to the City alliance….
Observations on the motherland…. Every time I go to El Salvador, getting around is the quite the experience. The last time I went to visit…
The following video consists of a 2011 online presentation by Miriam Torres of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, which helps local groups build a…
Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention By: Manning Marable Hardcover: 608 pages Published: April 1, 2011 ISBN: 0670022209 One of the most highly anticipated books of…
The real world event of what’s been called the Cochabamba Water Wars found its way into two recent feature films. Cochabamba is the third largest…
Over the past several weeks, residents of the Ethelred Estate – a 900-unit housing estate situated just south of the Thames river in the London…
Below are three very different dipatches from friends in London about what’s going on in the streets and in the media: DEPTFORD UNITED, a Lewisham…
Today is the premier of the movie The Help, which places African American domestic workers at the center of a major motion picture – a…
Is the lack of recreational space making us fatter? Probably. (Among other things) Americans are getting fatter every day. I’m sure there’s a statistic out…
Estate by Fugitive Images, Paul Hallam, Victor Buchli, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson, Tristan Fennell Paperback, 152 pages Published September 24th 2010 Please buy direct…
This is how much the developed countries spent per capita on healthcare a few years ago, contrasted with average life-expectancy: This is what privatisation with…
I’m walking down Calle Carabobo (translation: silly-face street) in Medellin. It’s a place where volume matters. It matters to the street vendors –– the “llamada”…
Over the past few years, there has been an incredible rise in popularity of the far-right in several European countries, including Belgium, Austria, Denmark and…
Winston Churchill once said that history is written by the victors. For centuries, the histories of Africa and Latin America were told via the pens…