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…
There is a longstanding debate regarding the role of white folks in the struggle for racial and economic justice. Should they be part of strategic…
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…
Marie Kennedy is a transformative community planner who often draws upon participatory action research (PAR) methods to advance her work. In this interview, she shares…
It is close to two months now since I lost my father. Just writing those words, acknowledging the finality of them, is an enormous and dreadful…
Prisons provide different things to different people. For some, they ensure a far-away place to send people who have done harm to someone you love….
Flickr-Fibonacci Blue As an increasing number of noxious anti-immigrant laws are adopted in the US; as Europe debates border closures; and as the effective elimination…
He’s walked back what he said, as the saying goes. But on May 15 when answering a question on Meet the Press about the Medicare…
Albert Einstein once said that “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” But at this…