Category: Argentina

The Politics of Pachamama: Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America

The Politics of Pachamama: Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America

Originally published on April 2, 2014 at TowardFreedom.com En Español: La política de Pachamama: Extracción de recursos naturales contra derechos de los indígenas y el medioambiente en América Latina When I sat down to an early morning interview with Evo Morales over a decade ago in Cochabamba, Bolivia, the then-coca farmer leader and dissident congressman…

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The Unpredictable Future: Stories From Worker-Run Factories in Argentina

The Unpredictable Future: Stories From Worker-Run Factories in Argentina

By Ben Dangl Originally published on November 23, 2009 in TowardFreedom.com Reviewed: Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories, edited by Lavaca, 320 pages, Haymarket Books, 2007. Following the social upheaval in Argentina in 2001-2002 a book was published in Spanish that a lot of activists and independent journalists in the country began trying to get their hands…

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Argentina to Wall Street: Latin American Social Movements and the Occupation of Everything

Argentina to Wall Street: Latin American Social Movements and the Occupation of Everything

By Ben Dangl Originally published on October 14, 2011 in TowardFreedom.com Massive buildings tower over Wall Street, making the sidewalks feel like valleys in an urban mountain range. The incense, drum beats and chants of Occupy Wall Street echo down New York City’s financial district from Liberty Plaza, where thousands of activists have converged to…

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The Unpredictable Future: Stories From Worker-Run Factories in Argentina

The Unpredictable Future: Stories From Worker-Run Factories in Argentina

Written by Benjamin Dangl November 24, 2009 Reviewed: Sin Patron: Stories From Argentina’s Worker-Run Factories, edited by Lavaca, 320 pages, Haymarket Books, 2007. Following the social upheaval in Argentina in 2001-2002 a book was published in Spanish that a lot of activists and independent journalists in the country began trying to get their hands on. It…

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Argentina: Turning Around – Interview with Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young

Argentina: Turning Around – Interview with Mark Dworkin & Melissa Young

Conducted by Benjamin Dangl Monday, 20 July 2009 Argentina: Turning Around is an exciting film which captures the spirit of Argentina’s grassroots response to economic meltdown. Drawing from diverse interviews and incredible footage, the film offers an inside look at the victories and challenges of Argentina’s neighborhood assemblies, protest movements and worker-run factories. Argentina: Turning…

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Argentina Remembers: Marches Mark 33rd Anniversary of Military Coup

Argentina Remembers: Marches Mark 33rd Anniversary of Military Coup

By Benjamin Dangl April 21. 2009 The weekend that the hemisphere’s Presidents met in Trinidad at the Summit of the Americas marked the same weekend that Cuba defeated the US in the Bay of Pigs invasion 48 years ago. At the Summit, Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega recalled the invasion in a speech that rightly criticized…

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Finding Common Ground in Crisis: Social Movements in South America and the US

Finding Common Ground in Crisis: Social Movements in South America and the US

By Benjamin Dangl Thursday, 18 December 2008 People in the US seeking ways to confront the economic crisis could follow the lead of South American social movements. From Argentina to Venezuela, many movements have won victories against the same systems of corporate greed and political corruption that produce economic strife across the hemisphere. These movements…

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Argentina’s Bonfire of Memory

Argentina’s Bonfire of Memory

By Benjamin Dangl Tuesday, 07 August 2007 Guitar strumming and singing starts and stops with the passage of wine and steak. The gaiety of this party in Argentina is in contrast with the topic of conversation. Some of the partygoers are sons and daughters of dissidents persecuted in the dictatorship and they talk about disappearances…

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An Interview with Celia Martinez of the Worker-Controlled Brukman Textile Factory in Buenos Aires

An Interview with Celia Martinez of the Worker-Controlled Brukman Textile Factory in Buenos Aires

Conducted by Benjamin Dangl 8/29/05 printer-friendly version One day before Argentina’s economic crash on December 19, 2001, fifty-two workers from the Brukman Textile Factory, the majority of them women, refused to continue working until their bosses handed over their back-wages. Plagued by debt and gradual bankruptcy, the owners hadn’t paid the workers their weekly pay…

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