Admin and Editorial Assistant post
Location: Work from homeHours: part-time 20 hours/2.5 days per weekSalary: £25,000 pro rataDuration: 9 months initially, to be extended if funding permits
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The need for LAB's work has never been greater: Latin America is entering an era of...
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!
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 East River under the shadow...
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,
The shocking suicide of former President Alan García, as police arrived to arrest, may have been planned in advance to create a martyrdom and obscure the taint of corruption from the Odebrecht scandal, argues Javier Farje (Read...
Dear LAB Supporter and Friend,
27
March 2019
Voices versus the new
populism
Voices of Latin
America: LAB’s newest book
was launched on 18 January in a packed-out event at RichMix in London. Over 60
copies of the book were sold. You can see details and order copies...
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...