Fighting Displacement in Barcelona and Beyond

Fighting Displacement in Barcelona and Beyond

Barcelona's anti-displacement activists are successfully challenging global banking and real estate interests, while building new political models that transcend recent ...
Mass Evictions at Pinheirinho: Favela Residents Confront Brazil’s Development Boom

Mass Evictions at Pinheirinho: Favela Residents Confront Brazil’s Development Boom

Mass evictions and police violence at Pinheirinho, a favela on the outskirts of São Paolo, illustrate the collateral damage of ...
Further Marginalizing the Already Vulnerable

Further Marginalizing the Already Vulnerable

Latino households in the United States experienced a record decline in wealth in 2005-2009. It looks like U.S. immigration and ...
Brazil Without Poverty? Dilma’s Double Discourse

Brazil Without Poverty? Dilma’s Double Discourse

Last week Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff launched an ambitious program to eradicate extreme poverty by 2014. Under the “Brazil Without ...