A beautiful short video made for LAB by Francisco Elías Prada and Ángela Rodríguez Torres of LAB partner, Ojos Ilegales, Venzuela. In a few brief photographs and captions it captivates what Voices of Latin America is all about. An excellent way to communicate the power, value and importance of this book!
Martin Paddio of Monthly Review Press
Hosted by Monthly Review Press, NACLA, Voices editor Tom Gatehouse, and the New York Latin America Bureau team, Voices of Latin America: Social Movements and the New Activism was launched in Brooklyn, New York on 16th May at the Verso loft in Jay Street, on the...
Photographer Francisco Elias Prado, of Ojos Ilegales, in Caracas Venezuela, has sent LAB this video. He produced a photo-essay, Transmigración en Movimiento, from which LAB used the image (on p.187 of Voices of Latin America) of Ana Enamorado, a Honduran woman living in Mexico and working with the Movimiento Migrante Mesoamericano (MMM). Her own son is one...
26 April 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
Patricia Gualinga, a Sarayaku Kichwa activist from Ecuador, in New York for the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. She is holding a copy of Voices at an Amazonwatch event
The shocking suicide of former President...
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
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March 2019
Voices versus the new
populism
Alzira de Fátima Venâncio Barbosa, who lives by the Paraopebas River. Alzira’s income was dependent on the river, as she would fish and cook for fisherman. Photo: Rodrigo Zaim/Christian Aid
Voices of Latin
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Voices of Latin America is published in the US by Monthly Review Press, in partnership with LAB and Practical Action Publishing.
The US launch event:
Thursday, May 16, 6:30-9pm
Verso Books
20 Jay Street, Suite 1010, Brooklyn, NY 11201
There will be a lively debate and a glass of wine with panelists, including Voices of Latin America editor, Tom Gatehouse; Brooklyn Museum Director of...
07 January 2019
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
LAB News
Only two weeks to go! Reserve your tickets now!
Voices of Latin America - social movements and the new activism will be published on 18 January. The launch party on that day is at popular London music venue Rich Mix, in Shoreditch, starting at 7:00 pm. You can reserve tickets (and a...
This is a book of many voices (more than 70 of them, from 14 different countries): of anthropologists and archaeologists; urban planners and architects; artists and musicians; journalists and politicians; women and LGBT people trying to halt gender-based oppression and violence; indigenous activists fighting oil drilling on their territory; residents of favelas resisting evictions; students staking their claim to...
19 December 2018
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
LAB News
Two new major LAB publications in two months. First Amazon Besieged - by dams, soya, agribusiness and land-grabbing, by Mauricio Torres and Sue Branford. And then, on January 18, Voices of Latin America - social movements and the new activism, edited by Tom Gatehouse.
Voices of Latin America - social movements and...
From 2016 to 2017, Mongabay contributors Sue Branford and Maurício Torres traveled to the Tapajós River Basin, in the heart of the Brazilian Amazon, to report on the controversial plan to turn the region into a major commodities export corridor.
Branford and Torres wrote a 15-part investigative series (published in partnership with The Intercept Brazil) based on what...