February 20, 0692
Join the author of Revolutionary Doctors: How Venezuela and Cuba are Changing the World's Conception of Health Care at Word Up Community Bookshop in NYC, December 14, at 6 pm. Also featuring a screening of "Cancion de Esteli" by Cuban poet and filmmaker Victor Casaus.
February 20, 0572
The centenary of the Russian Revolution has no doubt produced a cascade of lugubrious foodistas, made melancholy by the moribund march past 100. There is widespread disaffection with the fact that ‘capitalism is … assumed to be immutable and [is] rarely questioned’ according to Holt-Gimenez—and rightly so. But the solemnity of the centenary was made much less draining by the availability of Eric Holt-Gimenez’s A Foodie’s Guide to Capitalism. Beneath the cringe-worthy title is a serious attempt to reintroduce the ‘C-word’ into the food discourse…
February 20, 0552
Drawing on long-term participant observations as well as in-depth research, author and journalist Steve Brouwer tells the story of the innovative and inspirational health care programs pioneered in Cuba and being adapted to the needs of Venezuela today.
February 20, 0522
David L. Wilson, author, with Jane Guskin, of The Politics of Immigration: Questions and Answers (2nd Edition), looks at NAFTA, and why it’s back in the news
February 20, 0482
"...the thought was, this is the cost of doing business, and that they would externalize the cost, not just on the people of China, but on the rest of the world...China is not alone in that. The U.S. has done that, Europe has done that...the Swine flu, H1N1 that emerged in 2009 outside Mexico City, our team calls that the NAFTA flu, (from) the U.S. meat dumped onto the Mexican market....In other words we did it ourselves, in 2009, this very thing that China has also been doing for several decades."
February 20, 0440
Celia Sánchez was Fidel Castro's right-hand woman. She was the daughter of a country doctor, something of a radical himself, a single woman dutifully devoted to looking after daddy and doing good works with a Catholic organisation. It was a superb cover for her underground work. She was in on the Cuban Revolution from the very beginning. Her handler was a remarkable young man, Frank País (later murdered by Batista's goons) who deserves to be as iconic as 'Che' Guevara. (But then so do many others, brave young women and men who were killed in the early days – because of the Cuban Revolution's success and survival they tend to be forgotten).
February 20, 0422
Stephanie Urdang didn’t leave South Africa at the age of 23 because she was forced into exile. She left because she ‘hated Apartheid.’ It was the late 1960s—mid-hiatus between the Rivonia Trial, the imprisonment of Nelson Mandela and other anti-Apartheid leaders (in 1964), the burgeoning of Black Consciousness (from the late 1960s onwards), the resurgent trade union movement (1973), and the Soweto uprising (1976). Avenues for fighting Apartheid had narrowed; the comforts of whiteness expanded….
February 20, 0418
John Smith’s book is a powerful and searing indictment of the exploitation of billions of people in what used to be called the Third World and is now called the ‘emerging’ or ‘developing’ economies by mainstream economics (and is called ‘the South’ by Smith). But the book is much, much more than that. After years of research including a PhD thesis, John has made an important and original contribution to our understanding of modern imperialism, both theoretically and empirically.
February 20, 0398
Available for the first time in English, the essays collected in Esteban Morales Domínguez's "Race in Cuba" describe the problem of racial inequality in Cuba, provide evidence of its existence, constructively criticize efforts by the Cuban political leadership to end discrimination, and point to a possible way forward. To buy his book, use the coupon code BOM715 and receive 35% off at check out.
February 20, 0381
When Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger celebrated his Papal inaugural mass in 2005 it's reasonable to assume he didn't expect in the course of his reign to be facing charges in the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. If the Center for Constitutional Rights prevails, that is precisely what awaits him.
