Social Movements: Building from the Ground Up

I went home to Argentina last December for the holidays, and upon my return to New York, most people I

It has been more than a decade since California voters passed a ballot initiative entitled “Proposition 187.” Though it was

On April 3, 2002, in a unanimous, 7-0 decision, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights declared that U.S. citizen Lori

On January 10, members of more than 600 neighborhood organizations in the Bolivian city of El Alto mobilized in an

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One of the major contradictions in the Americas today is that between the included and the excluded—those who can regularly

Over the past few decades, there have been various forms of popular protest in Latin America against the austerity measures

Since 2001, activists from around the world who are opposed to neoliberal corporate globalization have gathered annually at the World

The people of Nuevo San Isidro watched warily as a helicopter appeared over the horizon, circled in over their seven

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With members of Venezuela’s political opposition trying to get rid of President Hugo Chávez by just about any means they

I went home to Argentina last December for the holidays, and upon my return to New York, most people I