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Protest Graffiti Mexico: Oaxaca
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Lila Downs (Introduction by), Elaine Sendyk (Photography), and Louis E.V. Nevaer |
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On October 27, 2006, Mexican police opened fire on a crowd of protesters in the city of Oaxaca, killing three people (including American journalist Brad Roland Will), and the world became aware of a social conflict that at its core was about the right to an education. Since 1981, teachers in the Mexican state have held annual strikes, but 2006 was the first time that violence erupted. Within hours of these s...
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Dying To Live: A Story of U.S. Immigration in an Age of Global Apartheid
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Mizue Aizeki (Photography) and Joseph Nevins |
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A compelling account of U.S. immigration and border enforcement told through the journey of one man who perished in California's Imperial Valley while trying to reunite with his wife and child in Los Angeles. At a time when Republicans and Democrats alike embrace increasingly militaristic border enforcement policies under the guise of security, and local governments around the country are taking matters into...
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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement
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Gloria Muñoz Ramírez |
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In 1983, a small group of Mexicans traveled to the Lacandón jungle in Mexico's southern state of Chiapas, with the dream of organizing a national revolution. For the next ten years they lived with the indigenous Mayan communities there, listening, learning and blending with them. This was the beginning of the Zapatista movement, which made its dramatic public debut on January 1, 1994, when thousands o...
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Mexico Unconquered: Chronicles of Power and Revolt
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John Gibler |
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Mexico Unconquered is an evocative report on the epic powers of violence and corruption in Mexico and the underdogs and rebels who put their lives on the line to build justice from the ground up.
Author John Gibler probes the overwhelming divisions in contemporary Mexico, home to the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, and to destitute millions. The book explores the concept of the Rule of Law in...
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El Fuego y La Palabra: Una Historia del Movimiento Zapatista
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Gloria Muñoz Ramírez |
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En 1983 un reducido grupo de mexicanos llegó a la Selva Lacandona, en el sureño estado de Chiapas, con el sueño de organizar una revolución nacional. Durante los diez años siguientes convivieron con las comunidades indígenas mayas, las escucharon, aprendieron y se fundieron en ellas. Era el inicio del movimiento zapatista que se daría a conocer públicam...
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Nadie Es Ilegal: Combatiendo el Racismo y la Violencia del Estado en la Frontera
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Justin Akers Chacon and Mike Davis |
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El debate sobre la política de inmigración usualmente estaba circunscrito al ambito de las grandes empresas y de la extrema derecha, pero ahora se ha dispersado como el viento en las discusiones populares. Este libro reseña la historia y actualidad de la lucha por les derechos de los inmigrantes, primordialmente a través de la experiencia de los obreros que cruzan la frontera con ...
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Graffiti Argentina
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Maximiliano Ruiz |
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With quotes from the artists themselves, including JAZZ and the Brazilian twins OS GEMEOS, this book traces the story of Argentina's vibrant graffiti scene, from the efflorescence of graffiti in the 1990s to the underground use of tags, train graffiti and political paintings to the sketches and designs that have come off the street to influence the country's entire visual culture.
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Creating a Caring Economy
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Nora Castañeda |
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President Chávez has said: "To abolish poverty we must give power to the poor." Women, who are 70% of the poor, have made themselves the starting point of change. The extraordinary Womens Development Bank (Banmujer) is part of the process of revolutionizing Venezuela's economy: promoting grassroots self-activity backed by the oil revenue. Its president, Nora Castañeda, describes how Banmujer i...
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Magical Urbanism : Latinos Reinvent the US City
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Mike Davis |
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The author of City of Quartz checks into La Ciudad Latina. As Latinos become the largest ethnic group in LA, Houston, San Antonio, what are the implications for the politics, economics & culture of those cities and of the US as a whole? How does the militancy of the Latino workers & student activists affect the American Left? This new paperback edition of Mr D's investigation into the Latinization of Americ...
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