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Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos has reinitiated a dialogue with the FARC. Talks began in Oslo and will continue in Havana. The…
Justin Podur
Justin Podur is a professor (of environmental science at York University in Toronto), a writer on international politics (books - Haiti's New Dictatorship and America's Wars on Democracy in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo), a fiction writer (Siegebreakers, the Path of the Unarmed) and a podcaster (The Anti-Empire Project, and The Brief).
I joined the International Organization for a Participatory Society. I don't join organizations lightly. I worked pretty intensely for a couple of…
When the landless peasants of the Carperos Campesino Movement moved on to the 70,000 hectare ranch in Curuguaty registered to Blas Riquelme,…
Tim Schwartz is an anthropologist with extensive experience in the foreign aid sector in Haiti. He is the author of the book,…
The key moment in many revolutions comes when police and militaries refuse to fire on crowds. But what is difficult to explain…
I have some disagreements with Joel Olson's article, "Whiteness and the 99%", but I will start with some agreements. I agree that…
The Occupy Wall Street Movement and the Occupy Together movements that are inspired by it actually have a simple premise: society shouldn't be run…
There are at least 595,000 Haitians living in camps around Port au Prince (1). President Martelly has a program, called 16-6, which…
Leftists don't spend enough time or energy working on important strategic questions. If we could resolve a handful of these, even tentatively,…
Patrick Elie is a Haitian activist who worked in the first Aristide administration. I interviewed him in Port au Prince on October…