- Age of Extremes
The Short Twentieth Century 1914 - 1991
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A overview of the history of the years 1914 - 1991.
- Anarchism
A Documentary History of Libertarian Ideas
Resource Type: Book
- Another World is Possible
Globalization and Anti-capitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
A call-to-arms for progressive activists. McNally argues that capitalism is synonymous with imperialism and fundamentally incompatible with democracy.
- Asamblea Popular de los Pueblos de Oaxaca
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
An organization that came together in response to the political situation in the Mexican state of Oaxaca, first meeting in June 2006.
- Ayotzinapa delegation to testify before civil society and policy makers about human rights crisis in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Ayotzinapa delegation to testify before civil society & policy makers about human rights crisis in Mexico. Family members & representatives of 43 missing students touring Canada calling for end to state violence and lack of accountability in Mexico
- Aztec tower of Human Skulls Uncovered in Mexico City
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Archeologists discover 676 skulls from Aztec archeological site, in Mexico City.
- The Biggest Threat to Mexican Journalists Aren't Drug Cartels Anymore
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Northern Mexico and the drug cartels have dangerous reputations; especially for journalists. This should come to a surprise to no one. This year, however, the danger seems to have shifted in both location and source. Of the six journalists that were killed in Mexico this year, all of them were killed in the south; most likely at the hands of police officers and politicians.
- Broken Barricades: The Oaxaca Rebellion in Victory, Defeat, and Beyond
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
An analysis of the 2006 Oaxaca rebellion and its contradictions. Its diversity encompassed workers, indigenous groups, Stalinists, anarchists and others. Its weapons and tactics included general assemblies, strikes, barricades, mirrors and fireworks.
- The Broken Spears
The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1962
Translated selections of Nahuatl-language accounts of the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire.
- Canadian Foreign Policy and the Coming Elections in FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Featuring the impact of minority government on Canadian foreign policy, Haitian democracy, U.S.multilateralism in the Americas, Colombia-UNASUR relations, Cuban bloggers, and boosting Canada's relationship with Mexico. FOCALPoint is available online.
- Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Capitalism and Underdevelopment in Latin America
Historical Studies of Chile and Brazil
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
The four essays in this book offer a sweeping reinterpretation of Latin American history as an aspect of the world-wide spread of capitalism in its commercial and industrial phases.
- Caribbean Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources
Resource Type: Website
Organizations and experts on Caribbean topics.
- Central American Women Put their Lives on the Line for Human Rights
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
Solidarity is at the heart of an initiative that seeks to protect women activists facing harassment, death threats and violence.
- Chiapas Anti-Mining Organizer Murdered
Mariano Abarca Led a Growing Movement to Kick Canadian Mining Companies Out of Mexican Communities
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Mariano Abarca Roblero, one of Mexico's most prominent anti-mining organizers, was shot to death on the evening of November 27, 2009, in front of his house in Chicomuselo, Chiapas. The incident comes just days after Abarca filed charges against two Blackfire employees, Ciro Roblero Perez and Luis Antonio Flores Villatoro, for threatening to shoot him if he didn't stop organizing against Canadian mining company Blackfire's barium mine in Chicomuselo.
- Chomsky.Info
Resource Type: Website
The Noam Chomsky Web site.
- The Common Good
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1998
Interviews with Noam Chomsky on the U.S. and the world.
- Community radio host's 12-year-old son killed in shooting
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The son of radio La Calentana Mexiquense's founder and presenter, Indalecio Bentez Mondragon, was killed on the night of 1 August when masked gunmen fired on Benez's car at the entrance to the community radio station, located in his home
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Central America and the Caribbean Focus
Resource Type: Website
Published: 2009
Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Central America and the Caribbean.
- Coopting the language of the left at the pro-life march on Washington
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Examining the use of left wing rhetoric by a participant of the pro-life match on Washington to justify right wing ideologies and policies, and the broader impliciations of such tactics.
- CPJ concerned about arrest of Mexican journalist
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about the arrest of prominent Mexican journalist Sanjuana Martinez Thursday in Nuevo Leon under unclear circumstances.
- CRAC-PC: take the arms and the destiny of our lives in Guerrero, Mexico
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2017
A documentary on the CRAC-PC (Regional Coordinator of Communitary Authorities - Communitarian Police), a police force of community volunteers elected by regional assemblies, operating in the Guerrero state in Mexico.
- The Dark Side of Clean Energy: Industrial Wind Plantations in Mexico
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
- Dictionary of Mexican Literature
Resource Type: Book
- Draining Canada Dry
The Continental Thirst for Canada's Water
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
The authors examine Canada's water policies and their socio-economic impact on North America.
- Drought
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2011
As a result of the persistent drought, an entire community prepares for an inevitable exodus from their homeland in northern Mexico.
- Drug War Capitalism: An Interview with Dawn Paley
Resource Type: Unclassified
Published: 2016
Dawn Paley’s book, Drug War Capitalism, provides a provocative thesis. The drug war is not about crime nor security. Rather, it enables global capitalist expansion through enclosure. In our hour-long interview Dawn elaborates on how elites collude across borders for their own benefit at the expense of their populations. She describes the consequences of this collusion as militarism, human rights abuses, and insecurity. As the interview develops, Dawn brings optimism back into the equation, with a discussion of resistance in everyday life, activism, and grassroot, peoples’ movements.
- Drug War Winners and Losers
Drug War Capitalism (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
State officials are portrayed as wholly separate from criminal groups. To the contrary, Paley shows that the worlds of state officials, large business interests and drug lords are in fact thoroughly integrated. Far from being inimical to business investment and the modern state, illicit drug economies and drug-related violence are simply a part of capitalism-as-usual.
- Embassy Row Online
Resource Type: Website
Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
- Emergence: An Irresistible Global Uprising
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2003
An Essay from the Book We Are Everywhere.
- Expansion of Renewable Energies in Mexico Has Victims, Too
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
An account of the impact of wind and solar projects in the Yucatan state of Mexico on the nearby communities, in particular farmers, and the failures of the government to consult or inform the community on the environmental impacts and contract terms.
- An Experiment in Democracy - Book Review
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1999
Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers' Movement in Mexico by Maria Lorena Cook. (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996). Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. 359 pages. Hardback: $55, paperback $19.95.
- The Fight for Canada
Four Centuries of Resistance to American Expansionism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
In an effort to realize their grand dream of one nation from Panama to the Arctic, Americans have attempted to conquer Canada using war, trade sanctions, and political interventions of all kinds. "That fight for Canada continues to this day," says David Orchard.
- Filmmaker "Gringoyo" Putting the Fun Back Into Revolution
Harnessing Humour to Build Video Viewership and Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
These satirical videos not only talk about movements, they are filmed in conflict zones in moments of political tension. Gringoyo moves in a very real world with the freedom of a cartoon.
- Five Centuries of Imperialism and Resistance
Vol. 8: 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of poems and essays giving various perspectives on resistance to imperialism and capitalism.
- FOCAL and COMEXI Launch Mexico-Canada Initiative
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales and the Canadian Foundation for the Americas are combining forces to create an independent working group that will bring forward ideas to deepen, broaden and add dynamism to the relationship.
- 1491
New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2005
A portrait of human life in the Americas before the arrival of Columbus.
- The Ghost of Anarcho-Syndicalism
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1992
The danger of modern anarchists of falling into the trap of anarcho-syndicalism.
- Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
- How Not to Get Eaten When the Dinosaurs Escape from their Cages
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The risks of moving too quickly to occupy TV stations, and “Suggestions for Radicals” who are in for the long haul.
- IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n Laguna, who worked for La OpiniA#n.
- IFJ Condemns Deadly Attack on Journalists in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the shooting attack on two young Mexican journalists in the city of Ciudad Juárez in which photojournalist Luis Carlos Santiago was killed and his colleague Carlos Sanchez wounded.
- IFJ Condemns Murders of Journalists in Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
The International Federation of Journalists today said impunity which is fueling violence against journalists has reached intolerable levels in Mexico after two more journalists were murdered in a single day last week, bringing to 12 the number
- The IFJ condemns the brutal murder of Mexican journalist Moises Sanchez Cerezo, from Veracruz
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Moises Sanchez Cerezo, editor of La Union, was found killed after 24 days without news of his whereabouts. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) urges the Mexican authorities to solve all the responsibilities for the murder.
- The Importance of Journalism and Communications to Social Movements
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Remarks of Javier Sicilia to the School of Authentic Journalism.
- In Mexico, Finally, a Revolt Against the Media
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The summer will determine if the “I Am 132” moment becomes a movement and that’s why “Mexican Spring” is a poor choice of words for it.
- In Mexico, reporters struggle to cover unrest over missing students
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Students have been kidnapped and mass graves have been uncovered but, with all the self-censorship of domestic journalists, Mexico will soon forget.
- Initiative mexico-canadienne lancee par la Fondation canadienne pour les Ameriques (FOCAL) et Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales (COMEXI)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
COMEXI et FOCAL se sont alliA#es pour crA#er un groupe de travail indA#pendant, pA#piniA#re dâ##idA#es qui viendront dynamiser, A#largir et approfondir les relations entre le Mexique et le Canada.
- Invitation to form Operative Groups YoSoy#132
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
#YoSoy132 is against Enrique Peña Nieto, seeks the democratization of the mass media, and behaves as a peaceful movement.
- "It's not just 2 pesos; It's the country:" Mexico City's #PosMeSalto Movement Protests Rising Transit Costs
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
The author surveys the 2 peso transit fare hike in Mexico within the context of the country's suffering ecomomy and low living wage to showcase why the decision is a mistake.
- Javier Sicilia Calls Out to Alternative Media as a Force for Communication
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
At the 2012 School of Authentic Journalism, a poet reviews the first year of the movement against the drug war that he inspired.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- A Long and Terrible Shadow
White Values, Native Rights in the Americas 1492-1992
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
Against the odds, Native peoples have waged a tenacious struggle to survive and the re-emerge as distinct cultures.
- Marcos, Subcomandante
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Spokesman for the Zapatista Army of National Liberation (EZLN).
- Marx and Engels Collected Works Volume 19
Marx and Engels 1861 - 1864
Resource Type: Book
Colonialism, slavery, and the American Civil War.
- A Marxist History of the World part 79: Revolt in the Colonies
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The anti-colonial revolts of the early 20th century were inspired by radical ideas, but, as the examples of Ireland, India and Mexico show, history exacts a heavy price for political timidity.
- The Masked Avenger
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1994
Super Barrio is a living comic strip character, a masked man who wrestles with evil slumlords and corrupt politicians.
- Mayhem, Murder and Manipulation - Mexico in Turmoil
Against The Current vol. 123
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
Mexican police attacked activists and residents in the town of San Salvador Atenco in the State of Mexico in early May, killing one, injuring scores, and jailing over 200. The police attack on Atenco followed a violent police assault on striking steelworkers in Lázaro Cárdenas, Michoacán that left two dead and several severely injured. Local residents believe that the Fox government was taking revenge on Atenco activists for their success four years ago in blocking the construction of a new airport.
- Mexican crime reporter abducted and slain in Durango State
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna García was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning.
- Mexican Environment Laws
Resource Type: Article
Mexico's lax environmental laws.
- Mexican journalist Lydia Cacho: 'I don't scare easily'
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Lydia Cacho is one of Mexico's most fearless journalists. Her investigations have led to attempts on her life, and now she has been forced to flee her country. What next?
- Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
- Mexican President Calderón Hires US Propaganda Firm
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
Los Pinos retains Las Vegas-based R&R Partners to promote government’s successes as the bloody drug war rages on.
- The Mexican Student Movement Is Younger & Faster than "Occupy"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
It has been decades since I have seen any march of this size include a pledge by participants with that much discipline and awareness that the march is about influencing public opinion (in other words, not about "us" but about everyone). It reminds more of the guidelines from the victorious struggles of Ghandi to win independence from colonial rule in India, the civil rights movement of the 50s and 60s and the anti-nuclear movement of the 70s.
- Mexican War of Independence
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
- Mexico in Labor's Crucible
Book Review of Roman and Arregui's "Continental Crucible" and Gomez's "The Collapse of Dignity"
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
These two books deal in important and interesting ways with the question of building a real labour movement throughout North America.
- Mexico: Investigating attack on Monterrey TV studios a "test" for federal justice ministry
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the investigation into yesterdayâ##s armed attack in Monterrey in which gunmen threw a grenade and opened fire on the regional studios of the privately-owned national TV network Televisa.
- Mexico: Molotov cocktails thrown at Oaxaca newspaper editor's home
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
The home of Carlos Velasco Molina, the editor of the weekly El Correo de Oaxaca, in the southwestern city of Oaxaca in Mexico, is attacked.
- Mexico: Special federal prosecutor rules out that community journalists were killed for their work
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
Reporters Without Borders today voiced astonishment at a public statement by the special federal prosecutor for dealing with attacks on the media ruling out that two young women community journalists in Oaxaca State were killed because of their work.
- Mexico's Fake RCMP Report Backfires
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Murders committed by police are deemed not to have happened, or to have been justifiable force.
- Mexico's war on drugs is one big lie
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
Anabel Hernández, journalist and author, accuses the Mexican state of complicity with the cartels, and says the 'war on drugs' is a sham. She's had headless animals left at her door and her family have been threatened by gunmen.
- Monarch butterfly decline can only be stopped by a ban on glyphosate
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
Monarch butterfly numbers are dwindling despite protection of their wintering forests in Mexico, and voluntary schemes to restore their food plant, milkweed, in US field margins, writes Eva Sirinathsinghji. These measures alone are insufficient: no less than an end to the mass spraying of glyphosate on crops, predicated by 'Roundup-ready' GM corn and soy, will do.
- The Movement for Peace Marches On Against the Drug War
The Goal Is Clear: Peace With Justice and Dignity
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2012
The one-year anniversary of the Movement for Peace with Justice and Dignity, a grassroots groundswell against the drug war, played out March 28 in a small plaza in the Mexican city of Cuernavaca, just south of Mexico City — absent the cameras and pens of the mainstream media.
- The Narco News Bulletin
Resource Type: Website
Reporting on the drug war and democracy. Fostering authentic journalism.
- Narcoland
The Mexican Drug Lords And Their Godfathers
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2013
Hernández explains how Mexico became a base for the mega-cartels of Latin America and one of the most violent places on the planet. She reveals the mind-boggling depth of corruption in Mexico's government and business elite.
- News and Letters
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Articles from a Marxist-Humanist perspective.
- News & Letters: Draft for Marxist-Humanist Perspectives, 2006 - 2007
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
We aim to help fill the void on the question of "what happens after" by creatively rethinking and restating his concept of "revolution in permanence" for today.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Global Media
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2004
Peter Steven aims to make readers realize the power and influence of dominant media but, at the same time, also understand that they are not "omnipotent" and that there are alternative forms available.
- The NSA's Spying Operation on Mexico
Systematic Eavesdropping on the Government
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
The American NSA has been systematically eavesdropping on the Mexican government for years. Three major programs constitute a massive espionage operation against Mexico.
- Oaxaca protests 2006
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2006
The Mexican state of Oaxaca was embroiled in a conflict that lasted more than seven months and resulted in at least seventeen deaths and the occupation of the capital city of Oaxaca by the Popular Assembly of the Peoples of Oaxaca (APPO).
- #131+1: Voices in Movement An Oral History of the Mexican Youth Movement of 2012
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
On May 11, 2012, in the heat of the presidential campaign, history took an unexpected turn: a video, the social networks, and marches and mass actions managed to bring a new moment of hope into the history of Mexico, and the Mexican youth surprised the whole world.
- Open Veins of Latin America
Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1973
A political economy, a social and cultural narrative, and a powerful description of primitive capital accumulation.
- Organizing In Mexico: It's Tough, Often Brutal, And It Means Taking On The State
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
The system in Mexico operates to the detriment of independent unions. Although the Mexican system of labour relations initially conferred real benefits on workers and peasants whose organizations supported the government, it now functions to maintain a status quo where benefits flow only to corrupt union leaders.
- Ostula and Mexican Army Hold to Clashing Versions of Recent Attack
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
In Mexico, the independent investigation agency SubVersiones has published a compilation video that chronologically shows what events that took place on July 19, 2015, in the indigenous Nahua community of Santa María de Ostula. That day ended with a child dead and four people wounded.
- The Other Mexico
The North American Triangle Completed
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1995
- Our Generation
Volume 6 Number 3
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1969
- Peasant Wars of the Twentieth Century
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1969
- A People's History of the World
From the Stone Age to the New Millennium
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Harman describes the shape and course of human history as a narrative of ordinary people forming and re-forming complex societies in pursuit of common human goals.
- Photojournalist slain in Mexico City after fleeing threats in Veracruz
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled to learn that photojournalist Rubén Espinosa Becerril has been found murdered in Mexico City, to which he fled in early June after receiving death threats in the southeastern state of Veracruz.
- Police raid silences Chiapas community radio station
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
Police and judicial authorities in the southeastern state of Chiapas must explain a raid on Radio Proletaria, a community radio station in the city of Tuxtla Gutiérrez, in which arrests were made and the station was summarily dismantled.
- Profit over People
Neoliberalism and Global Order
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Chomsky confronts neoliberalsim: the pro-corporate system of economic and political policies presently waging a form of class war worldwide.
- The Prosperous Few and the Restless Many
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1993
a collection of short commentaries by Noam Chomsky on global issues, drawn from interviews in the early 1990s. Topics include global economics, racism, NAFTA, and hot topics of the day.
- Reporter who criticized officials is slain in northern Mexico
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
A Mexican journalist who was critical of local authorities in the northern state of Durango was fatally shot by unidentified assailants on Sunday.
- The rising repression of social protest in Latin America
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
On 17 October, 2017, the corpse of Santiago Maldonado appeared in the Chubut River. The young activist had been missing for 80 days. The suspense surrounding Maldonado’s whereabouts aroused a great sense of unease in a country where the word “disappeared” brings to mind the 30,000 victims of the civic-military dictatorship that ruled Argentina from 1976 to 1983.
- Secrets, Lies and Democracy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Noam Chomsky interviewed by David Barsamian.
- Self-censorship, exile or certain death: the choice faced by journalists in Ciudad JuA¡rez
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Reporters Without Borders and the Centre for Journalism and Public Ethics (CEPET) are releasing the results of a joint fact-finding visit to the northern city of Ciudad JuA¡rez Chihuahua, that was prompted by the murder of Armando RodrA#guez CarreA#n
- '68: The Year of the Barricades
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1988
Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
- The Slave Trade
The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade 1440 - 1870
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1997
A comprehensive history of the Atlantic slave trade in which approximiately eleven million black slaves were carried from Africa to the Americas to work on plantations, in mines, or as servants in houses.
- Socialist Register 1994
Volume 30: Between Globalism and Nationalism
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1994
- Society of Citizens of the World
Resource Type: Book
- Sources welcomes Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL)
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The Canadian Foundation for the Americas (FOCAL) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to strengthening Canadian relations with Latin America and the Caribbean.
- Stolen Continents
The "New World" Through Indian Eyes
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
A history of the Americas through Native eyes.
- Storming Heaven
1968 Revisted
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2008
The eruptions of 1968 challenged the power structures north and south, east and west. Countries in each continent were infected with the desire for change. Hope reigned supreme.
- The April edition of FOCALPoint: Canada's Spotlight on the Americas is out
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2010
This edition draws together analysts, policy-makers and development practitioners to look into current issues in Canada, Colombia, Cuba, Haiti and Mexico ranging from disability to multilateralism, from gang violence to political dissidence.
- The Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA) reacts to the potential Visa confrontation between Mexico and Canada
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
David McCaig, President and COO of the Association of Canadian Travel Agencies (ACTA) said, â#oThe sudden imposition of travel Visa requirements for Mexican citizens arriving into Canada will hurt the domestic Canadian Tourism market at a time
- Tlatelolco massacre
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A government massacre of student and civilian protesters and bystanders that took place during the afternoon and night of October 2, 1968 in Mexico City.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
A review of two books about media bias and censorship.
- Tracking the News that Wasn't (Book Review)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1996
- The War Over Mangoes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2017
Growing mangoes in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca has racked up an enormous socio-political expense for the region far greater than the price tag on the fruit in the supermarket. For a Mexican drug cartel desperate to move product, hiding illicit drugs in mango shipments is a risky but viable cover for getting them to the U.S. market. For the people of Oaxaca, however, the infiltration of one of the region’s most important industries indicates the threat of a life controlled by drug violence and its wide-ranging effects on society.
- We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
- Wobblies & Zapatistas
Conversations on Anarchism, Marxism and Radical Theory
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2008
Wobblies and Zapatistas offers readers an encounter between two generations and two traditions. Staughton Lynd and Andrej Grubacic meet in dialogue in an effort to bring together the anarchist and Marxist traditions, to discuss the writing of history by those who make it, and to remind us of the idea that 'my country is the world'.
- Zapata, Emiliano
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
A leading figure in the Mexican Revolution of 1910. (1879-1919).
- A Zapatista 'Seminar' in Chiapas
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
On the outskirts of San Cristobal de las Casas, famed colonial center of the southern state of Chiapas, over a thousand people from all over Mexico and beyond are attending a weeklong seminar "Critical Thinking Confronting the Capitalist Hydra." It was conceived and organized by the Zapatistas, the Chiapas-based armed insurgency.
- Zapatista women explain things
A review of Compañeras: Zapatista Women's Stories by Hilary Klein (Seven Stories, 2015)
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
- Zapatistas
Connexipedia Article
Resource Type: Article
Revolutionary group based in Chiapas, the southernmost, and one of the poorest, states of Mexico.
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