“My wife washed her face with rain water the day after they fumigated farmland about three kilometers from here and she started…
Raúl Zibechi
Raúl Zibechi (born January 25, 1952, in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a radio and print journalist, writer, researcher, militant, and political theorist. Between 1969-1973, as a student, he was a militant of the Frente Estudiantil Revolucionario (FER). In the '80s he began to publish in left newspapers and magazines. He focuses on social movements in Latin America and their relationships. As a popular educator he conducts workshops with social groups, particularly in urban peripheries and with peasants. He has published 18 books, almost all about concrete experiences of social movements. Three of his books have been translated into English: Dispersing power, Territories in resistance and The New Brazil (AK Press). He publishes regularly in La Jornada (Mexico), Gara (Spain) and other alternative media.
Chilean students question the education system as commercial and elitist because it reproduces existing social inequities and makes them worse. But they…
The "war against terror" inaugurated by George W. Bush as a response to the September 11 2001 attack is now giving way…
“We don’t aspire to win the election because the left in Guatemala has been hit hard. This is about taking one step…
“My papa settled here in 1944,” Pablo Sarmiento says in a serene voice and gentle manner, as he looks at the ruins…
It was caused by an excessive increase in the price of fuels. The event demonstrates the difficulties of entering into a truly…
In many ways, the first decade of the 21st Century was the flip side of the last decade of the twentieth century…
A new indigenous uprising began in defense of water sources threatened by open air mining in Ecuador in late September. This time…
[Contribution to the Reimagining Society Project hosted by ZCommunications] Through the water war of April, 2000, the poor of the city…
In the first quarter of 2008, a strong political shift has emerged, which allows the local and global rightwing and multinational corporations…
