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Notes from Submergent Next Steps Gathering

Warning - Very long post ahead
After months of planning and many online conversations, 10 rabble rousers got together this past weekend in Philadelphia to dream, dialogue and conspire about the next steps Submergent should take. Many others were invited, but couldn’t make it to the gathering - so no, it was not a secret meeting [...]

The Ordinary Radicals : The Trailer

I’m looking forward the release of this project. Some good friends of mine will be part of this inspiring and important film

 
The Ordinary Radicals

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What you don’t know about Cuba - Adbusters

What You Don’t Know About Cuba | Adbusters
Just a few weeks before the next president of the United States takes the oath of office this January, Cubans will mark the 50th anniversary of the rise to power of America’s great nemesis, Fidel Castro.
Though many in the United States have denounced Castro (and his [...]

Puerto Rican independence fighters denounce colonial rule

Puerto Rican independence fighters denounce colonial rule
  
BY OLGA RODRÍGUEZ  
UNITED NATIONS—Nearly three dozen people from Puerto Rico, the United States, and several other countries testified on Puerto Rico’s colonial status before the UN Special Committee on Decolonization June 9.
A resolution cosponsored by the Cuban and Venezuelan governments calling on the U.S. government to end colonial rule [...]

The Darker Nations - Tuesday Book Recommendation

The Third World today faces Europe like a colossal mass whose projects should be to try to resolve the problems to which Europe has not been able to find the answers.
- Frantz Fannon, 1961
I would add to Fannon’s words that in this pivotal point in time, the Third World-The Darker Nations not only faces Europe [...]

Union of South American Nations - UNASUR

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UNASUR Official site -Español & English
Union of South American Nations - Wikipedia

The Union of South American Nations (Dutch: Unie van Zuid-Amerikaanse Naties, Portuguese: União de Nações Sul-Americanas, Spanish: Unión de Naciones Suramericanas, and abbreviated as UNASUR and UNASUL) is a supranational and intergovernmental union that will unite two existing customs unions – [...]

Economic Exploitation

Many white americans of good will never have connected bigotry with economic exploitation. They have deplored prejudice, but tolerated or ignored economic injustice. But the Negro knows that these two evils have a malignant kinship.
Dr. Martin Luther King

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Jarrod McKenna & The Peace Tree Community

Tonight I had the wonderful opportunity to talk with my friend Jarrod McKenna from The Peace Tree Community in Perth, Australia. While he was ready for lunch, I was ready for my night snack. Our conversation moved back and forth from telling about our cultural heritage,  religion of the empire, the political situation of Puerto Rico, [...]

Prophetic Christian vs. Constantinian Christian According to Cornell West

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Dispatches From Latin America - Tuesday Book Review

Some of you have asked me to recommend you a starter about Autonomous/ Global Justice/ Global Citizens Movements in Latin America. Today is your day.
For this Tuesday Book Review, I’m excited to share with you what I consider an excellent primer to liberation and anti-neoliberalism movements in America Latina - Dispatches from Latin America: On [...]

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