Haiti’s Children Pay the Price of Poverty
“After 200 years of bees, let’s have 200 years of honey.” So proposed a T-shirt issued by the Haitian government ...
A Day in the Life of the Other Campaign
“We did not come here to invite you to die or to kill; instead we came here to invite you ...
The Declaration of Tiwanaku
As the tri-colored presidential sash was draped over the shoulder of Evo Morales on January 22, tears welled up in ...
Bioprospecting: The ‘Promise’ and Threat of the Market
Bioprospecting is a relatively new name for a well-established practice. The term was coined by sustainable development advocates in the ...
The Bio Politic: Markets in Biology, Bodies and Information
Economic historian Karl Polanyi had a name for things not originally produced for sale on the market: he called them ...
Against Forgetting in Guatemala
Every June 30, the Guatemalan military parades down the streets of Guatemala City in full pomp and splendor to commemorate ...
Cuba Disconnect
In “Cuba: New Partners and Old Limits” [September/October 2005, “Empire and Dissent”] Daniela Spenser calls for Cuba to devolve into ...
International Zapatismo: A book by Thomas Oleson
International Zapatismo: The Construction of Solidarity in the Age of Globalization by Thomas Olesen, 2005. Zed Books, 256 pages, $27.50 ...
