We spoke with Joshua Holland a senior writer and editor at AlterNet.org, a two-time Webby Award winner and one of the top-ranked online magazines for progressive news and views and . Twice recognized by Project Censored, he’s also a recipient of a Schumann Foundation grant for independent journalism. Holland’s writing focuses on foreign policy, economic issues, immigration and electoral politics, and he edits AlterNet’s immigration, foreign policy and corporate accountability and workplace coverage. He holds a B.A. in international relations with a focus on international political economy from the University of Southern California. http://www.alternet.org/
We spoke with Tomas Ayuso & G.Hursthouse - Council on Hemispheric Affairs (COHA), a nonprofit, tax-exempt independent research and information organization, was established to promote the common interests of the hemisphere, raise the visibility of regional affairs and increase the importance of the inter-American relationship, as well as encourage the formulation of rational & constructive U.S. policies towards Latin America. Visit their webpage at
http://www.coha.org
Currently their work is focused on Chinese influence in Latin America, the Obama administration, drug-related transnational crime and recent South American referendums.
Here are links to some of our recent work:
Chinese Influence
http://www.coha.org/2009/02/china
’s-latest-geopolitical-assault-on-latin-american-commodities-and-bilateral-trade/
President Obama’s Latin American Foreign Policy
http://www.coha.org/2009/02/
¿cambio-latin-america-in-the-era-of-obama-―-an-early-reading-on-the-administration/
Bolivian Referendum
http://www.coha.org/2009/01/bolivia-evo … eferendum/
Transnational Crime
http://www.coha.org/2008/11/latin-america
’s-response-to-narco-fueled-transnational-crime/
At 5:30 Luke Bergmann: “GETTING GHOST: TWO YOUNG LIVES AND THE STRUGGLE FOR THE SOUL OF AN AMERICAN CITY is coming out this month. It follows the lives of two young black drug dealers living in Detroit as they travel the streets of the city, sling heroin on street corners, move through the revolving door of the criminal justice system, attend countless funeral of their young friends, etc…. It is really eye-opening and gives us an insight into the cultural, class and racial divisions in the history of Detroit. It’s central focus is Detroit but it really is a book about cycles of poverty in urban America and given the current economic climate, it couldn’t be more relevant than now. Luke is a young sociologist who used to live out on the West Coast and moved to Detroit after doing his research there and becoming immersed in the world he set out to study. He met the two guys the book is about at the juvenile detention center where he worked and developed a close friendship with both of them. He has an incredible story to tell.
at 6 PM Paul Armentano from Norml http://www.norml.org to discuss AB-390 a California bill that would legalize marijuana and tax it’s sale.
Here’s a good news story on the bill:
http://www.sacbee.com/breaking/story/1646399.html
At 6:15 Vijay Prashad is the author of eleven books, most recently, “The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World” (The New Press, paperback 2008), which was picked by the Asian American Writers’ Workshop as the nonfiction book of 2008. Prashad writes regularly in the media: as a columnist for Frontline magazine (Chennai, India), a contributing editor for Himal South Asia (Kathmandu, Nepal) and a contributing editor for Naked Punch Asia (Lahore, Pakistan). His web dispatches can be read at Counterpunch (counterpunch.org), at ZNET (zmag.org/znet) and at Pragoti (
http://www.pragoti.org
). He is on the board of the National Priorities Project (
http://www.nationalpriorities.org
).”
“A LANDMARK STUDY THAT OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF THE COLD WAR FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE WORLD’S POOR”
http://www.akpress.org/2007/items/darke … uctid=1344
Here, from a brilliant young writer, is a paradigm-shifting history of both a utopian concept and global movement—the idea of the Third World. The Darker Nations traces the intellectual origins and the political history of the twentieth century attempt to knit together the world’s impoverished countries in opposition to the United States and Soviet spheres of influence in the decades following World War II.
Spanning every continent of the global South, Vijay Prashad’s fascinating narrative takes us from the birth of postcolonial nations after World War II to the downfall and corruption of nationalist regimes. A breakthrough book of cutting-edge scholarship, it includes vivid portraits of Third World giants like India’s Nehru, Egypt’s Nasser, and Indonesia’s Sukarno—as well as scores of extraordinary but now-forgotten intellectuals, artists, and freedom fighters. The Darker Nations restores to memory the vibrant though flawed idea of the Third World, whose demise, Prashad ultimately argues, has produced a much impoverished international political arena. Vijay Prashad’s previous books include The Karma of Brown Folk and Everybody Was Kung Fu Fighting. He is on the board of the Center for Third World Organizing and a co-founder of the Forum of Indian Leftists.
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