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…
Conducted by Benjamin Dangl Tuesday, 16 June 2009 Michael Fox is a Brazil-based independent journalist and co-producer of the new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas (PM Press). He is also the co-author of an upcoming book called Venezuela Speaks: Voices From the Grassroots, also available through PM Press and set to be…
Written by Benjamin Dangl and Michael Fox Tuesday, 31 March 2009 Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas: Produced by Michael Fox and Sílvia Leindecker. Purchase from PM Press The new documentary Beyond Elections: Redefining Democracy in the Americas proves that democracy can and should be more than casting a ballot every four years. This…
Tuesday, 18 April 2006 By Benjamin Dangl “Super dogs especial,” yelled the hot dog vendor. His stand was an island in a street packed with World Social Forum participants. Other people sold Che Guevara hats, artesian jewelry, Hugo Chavez dolls and radical buttons in six languages. Drum circles and generators roared as I sat down…
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By Benjamin Dangl Tuesday, 31 January 2006 Benjamin Dangl: How did you get involved in journalism and journalistic film making? Brian Conley: Well, I initially intended to study history and political science in college. When I arrived there, however, I quickly decided that art and, particularly film, were very good ways to influence the public…
Written by Benjamin Dangl, Transcribed by April Howard Tuesday, 03 January 2006 Jerry Lembcke is the author of “The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam”. In 1969, he was assigned to the 41st Artillery Group in Vietnam as a Chaplain’s Assistant, and joined the Vietnam Veterans Against the War when he returned…
Conducted By Benjamin Dangl 4/14/04 Michael Hardt is a professor at Duke University and is the co-author, along with Antonio Negri, of the book Empire, which Harvard University Press described as “Looking beyond the regimes of exploitation and control that characterize today’s world order, Empire seeks an alternative paradigm – the basis for a truly…
Conducted by Benjamin Dangl 3/23/04 This interview took place after a talk Schell gave at Bard College on March 12 regarding the future of the UN. Schell’s is The Nation’s peace and disarmament correspondent, is the Harold Willens Peace Fellow at the Nation Institute and the author, most recently, of the The Unconquerable World: Power,…
December 2, 2003 By BENJAMIN DANGL Cochabamba, Bolivia This interview took place a month after Bolivia’s Gas War, a massive social uprising against the proposal to export the nation’s gas to the US through a Chilean port. Bolivia has the second largest natural gas reserves in Latin America. Instead of selling these reserves to the…