Tag Archive | "Zapatistas"

The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Tuesday, August 17, 2010

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The Rise of Disaster Capitalism

Investigative journalist Naomi Klein speaking on “The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” is a PM Press DVD produced by Bonobo Films. It consists of a brilliant 65-minute talk Naomi gave on May 19, 2008 at the Friends Meeting House in London introducing the paperback edition of her book The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (New York, 2007), plus a remarkably insightful 10-minute interview with Naomi done in London the next day. Some sections of the talk are on youtube (1), but the whole is not, and is worth having in its entirety.

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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement

Sunday, December 27, 2009

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The Fire and the Word: A History of the Zapatista Movement

This richly illustrated and designed volume, featuring indigenous art and photographs on nearly every page and unprecedented interviews with members of the early villages, is a result of the seven years Mexican journalist Gloria Muñoz Ramírez’ spent with the Zapatistas in Southern Chiapas.

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Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

Wednesday, June 24, 2009

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Wobblies and Zapatistas: Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism, and Radical History

Wobblies and Zapatistas is basically a long conversation between Grubacic and Lynd about building bridges between the best traditions within anarchism and Marxism written for modern militants, revolutionaries, and working people. It is a series of provocations, led by Grubacic as he asks Lynd probing questions about radical practice contemporarily and historically.

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