July 18th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Celebrity Christianity, Jesus Manifesto, Politics, funny, popular culture, satire
Mark have done it again.
A Vote for Barack Obama is a Vote for Jesus : Jesus Manifesto
A vote for Barack Obama is a vote for Jesus…not that I agree with everything he stands for. I mean, I am an independent sort of thinker. I am firmly convinced that God is neither a republican or a [...]
June 27th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in America, America Latina, Chile, Politics, Salvador Allende, Social Justice, alternative, latin america, liberation, socialism
Salvador Allende, was born in June 26, 1908. He was the first Marxist leader of a nation (Chile) to gain power through democratic process. Allende was murder on September 11, 1973 by the Pinochet lead coup d’teat supported by the CIA.
“¡Viva Chile! ¡Viva el pueblo! ¡Vivan los trabajadores!”
(”Long live Chile! Long live the people! [...]
June 18th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in America, America Latina, Che Guevara, Cuba, Empire, Politics, Revolution, Uncategorized, alternative, colonialism, latin america, liberation, resistance
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 [...]
June 16th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in America, America Latina, Food and Drink, Latino America, Liberated Spaces, Politics, Social Justice, altermundismo, alternative, anti-globalization, cooperatives, coops, diversity, globalization, hispanic, horizontalism, indigenous people, kingdom, latin america, liberation, mexico, resistance
Reclaiming Corn and Culture :: Mexico’s grassroots choose co-ops and fair trade :: By Wendy Call
Reclaiming Corn and Culture
by Wendy Call
For 14 years, NAFTA has displaced farmers and spurred migration. The answer from Mexico’s grassroots: co-ops and fair trade.
Coffee beans are stacked in front of a mural in the Café Museo Café in San Cristóbal [...]
June 14th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Empire, History, Independence, Politics, Puerto Rico, Social Justice, colonialism, colonization, decolonization, globalization, liberation, resistance
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 [...]
May 27th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Books, Empire, History, Politics, Uncategorized, book review, brown, colonization, diversity, economy, globalization, indigenous people, liberation, missions, multicultural
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 [...]
May 24th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in America, America Latina, Emerging World, Empire, Politics, Social Justice, altermundismo, alternative, colonization, economy, education, globalization, latin america, liberation, resistance, socialism
Se Viene el Estallido!
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 – [...]
May 17th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Community, Politics, Praxis, Social Justice, alternative, anarchism, articles, authors, creativity, resistance, solidarity, subvert, sustainability
Howard Zinn: Anarchism Shouldn’t Be a Dirty Word | Democracy and Elections | AlterNet
Ziga Vodovnik: In your People’s History of the United States you show us that our freedom, rights, environmental standards, etc., have never been given to us from the wealthy and influential few, but have always been fought out by ordinary people [...]
April 29th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in America, America Latina, Books, Emerging World, Empire, Independence, Latino America, Politics, Praxis, Revolution, Social Justice, Vocabulary for a New World, alternative, anti-globalization, colonization, diversity, economy, education, globalization, hispanic, horizontalism, kingdom, latino, liberation, liberation theology, neoliberalism, oppression, poverty, protest, resistance, resurrection, socialism, subvert, 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 [...]
April 24th, 2008 | by Eliacin | published in Books, Emerging, Empire, Jarrod Mckenna, Liberated Spaces, New Conspirators, Politics, Praxis, Religion, Social Justice, Submergent, The New Conspirators, Tom Sine, Weblogs, creativity, education, friends, global christianity, interview, kingdom, liberation, mustard seed associates, new monasticism, pacifism, resistance, subvert
Interview with Tom Sine and Jarrod McKenna
The New Conspirators | RodneyOlsen.net
From Rodeny Olsen:
Tom Sine joined me on my morning radio programme on 98.5 Sonshine FM along with Jarrod McKenna from Peace Tree Community. While Tom’s book talks about the many ways that people are re-imagining church, Jarrod is part of a community that is [...]
