Until the Rulers Obey

Description

Until the Rulers Obey brings together voices from the movements behind the wave of change that swept Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century. These movements have galvanized long-silent—or silenced—sectors of society: indigenous people, campesinos, students, the LGBT community, the unemployed, and all those left out of the promised utopia of a globalized economy. They have deployed a wide range of strategies and actions, sometimes building schools or clinics, sometimes occupying factories or fields, sometimes building and occupying political parties to take the reins of the state, and sometimes resisting government policies in order to protect their newfound power in community.

This unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from fifteen countries presenting their work and debating pressing questions of power, organizational forms, and relations with the state. They have mobilized on a wide range of issues: fighting against mines and agribusiness and for living space, rural and urban; for social space won through recognition of language, culture, and equal participation; for community and environmental survival. The book is organized in chapters by country with each chapter introduced by a solidarity activist, writer, or academic with deep knowledge of the place. This indispensable compilation of primary source material gives participants, students, and observers of social movements a chance to learn from their experience.

Contributors include ACOGUATE, Luis Ballesteros, Marc Becker, Margi Clarke, Benjamin Dangl, Mar Daza, Mickey Ellinger, Michael Fox, J. Heyward, Raphael Hoetmer, Hilary Klein, Diego Benegas Loyo, Courtney Martinez, Chuck Morse, Mario A. Murillo, Phil Neff, Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos, Hernán Ouviña, Margot Pepper, Adrienne Pine, Marcy Rein, Christy Rodgers, Clifton Ross, Susan Spronk, Marie Trigona, Jeffery R. Webber, and Raúl Zibechi.

Sujets

• Social movement
• Student
• Guérilla

Informations

• Publié par: PM Press
• Date de parution: 15 février 2014
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781604869002
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

"This is the book we’ve been waiting for. Anyone interested in the explosion of social movements in Latin America and the complex interplay between those forces and the ‘Pink Tide’ governments should inhale this book immediately. Until the Rulers Obey gives us country-specific context from a superb team of ‘introducers,’ who then step aside so we can hear a chorus of voices from some of the most inspiring grassroots organizations on the continent. This is a people’s history in real time, bubbling up from below." Avi Lewis and Naomi Klein
"Latin America is the last region in the world that still has a vibrant Enlightenment left, which sets both the practical agenda in terms of policy and the horizon in terms of utopia. This wonderfully edited collection of analysis and first-person accounts shows why. It assembles people who are both activists and analysts, who see no difference between interpreting and changing the world. It deserves a wide audience." Greg Grandin, author of Empire’s Workshop and Fordlandia
"A new world is dawning in Latin America from the bottom up. This book brings an all-star cast of scholar-activists together with social movement and community leaders from throughout the region. The reader will hear the clarion call for social justice from those who are on the front lines of grassroots resistance and popular struggles in this age of globalization, crisis, and transformation. These are the voices that too often are suppressed by the powerful and the means of communication they control. I cannot imagine a more important and timely volume for scholars and activists who wish to understand the transformations that are sweeping the subcontinent." William I. Robinson, professor of sociology, global studies, and Latin American studies, University of California at Santa Barbara, author of Latin America and Global Capitalism
"Until the Rulers Obey is a profoundly necessary book. Little has been published about Latin America in the way of an overview from 1989 to the present, even less in the voices of the protagonists themselves. The great experiments of the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s failed, but new and in many cases less dogmatic approaches to social justice have taken root in a number of countries south of the border. This book explores those efforts, often in the words of the change-makers themselves. Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein have done us a great service. Read this book for access to what the U.S. corporate media still doesn’t want us to know." Margaret Randall, author of Sandino’s Daughters Revisited, When I Look into the Mirror and See You, and Che on My Mind
"Until the Rulers Obey is the most exhaustive and comprehensive work of primary source material from social movements in Latin America to appear in English, presenting the testimony of the brave women and men who have challenged the old leaders, and are serving notice on the new aspirants to power that they can only rule legitimately if they listen to the voices and demands of the people. In addition to providing a report on the current state of popular struggles, this anthology will also serve as a compendium for future writers and historians who want to understand the social movements that transformed Latin America during the early years of the new millennium." Roger Burbach, coauthor of Latin America’s Turbulent Transitions: The Future of Twenty-First-Century Socialism
Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements
Edited by Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein
© 2014 Clifton Ross and Marcy Rein, as well as the individual contributors
© 2014 PM Press
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be transmitted by any means without permission in writing from the publisher.
ISBN: 978–1–60486–794–7
LCCN: 2013911522
Cover by John Yates/ www.stealworks.com . Top: Student march, Santiago de Chile, October 11, 2012. Photo © Jp Catepillan. Bottom: Demonstration by Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador (CONAIE), February 7, 2011. Photo © CONAIE, used by permission.
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"We will resist until the rulers govern obediently."
Zapatista National Liberation Army (EZLN), Second Declaration of the Lacandon Jungle

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Contents
Foreword by Raúl Zibechi
Editors’ Introduction
Mexico
Introduction by Luis Ballesteros
Women in the Zapatista Movement
Voices from the Oaxaca uprising of 2006
Movement for National Renewal (MORENA)
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Guatemala
Introduction by Phil Neff
Paula Barrios, Women Transforming the World (MTM)
Roberto Mendez, H.I.J.O.S. and CPR Urbana
Edwin E.A. Guevara, SITRAPETEN union organizer
Javier de León and Fernando Solís, anti-mining activists
Honduras
Introduction by Adrienne Pine
Nery Rodríguez, middle-school teacher
Leda Sánchez, Marina Pagoada, and Juana Buchanan, Nurses in Resistance
Sara Hernández, Movimiento Unificado Campesino del Aguán (MUCA)
Ricardo, gay activist, FNRP member
El Salvador
Introduction by J. Heyward
Miguel Rivera, community organizer
Lower Lempa River/Bay of Jiquilisco Coordinating Committee
Lilian Coto de Cuellar, FMLN National Secretariat for Women
Oswaldo Natarén and members of the University Front of Roque Dalton
Nicaragua
Introduction by Clifton Ross
Andrea Morales Pérez, Sandinista Workers’ Federation
Altagracia del Socorro Solís, Banana Workers’ Encampment
Gloria Paniagua, Another World Is Possible
Victor Hugo Tinoco, Sandinista Renewal Movement
Luisa Molina, Civil Coordinating Committee
Yamilet Mejía, feminist lawyer and activist
Colombia
Introduction by Mario A. Murillo
Manuela Ruiz, ecologist
Luis Yonda, Regional Indigenous Council of Cauca
Antonio Navarro Wolff, governor of Nariño state, former M-19 guerrilla
Jesús Tuberquía, San José de Apartadó Peace Community
Venezuela
Introduction by Clifton Ross
Rosangela Orozco, El Panal 2021 Commune
J. Arturo Albarrán, National Socialist Council for Agroecology
María Vicenta Dávila, popular educator
Alexis Romero, indigenous activist
Orlando Chirino, CCURA (United Revolutionary Autonomous Class Current), oil industry worker
Ecuador
Introduction by Marc Becker
Milton Chamorro, Itchimbía land occupation
Humberto Cholango, ECUARUNARI/CONAIE
Dioyenes Lucio, FENOCIN (National Federation of Indigenous, Peasant, and Black Organizations)
Monica Chuji Gualinga, CONAIE, Constitutional Assembly
Luis Macas, Scientific Institute of Indigenous Cultures (ICCI)
Brazil
Introduction by Michael Fox
Ana Hanauer, Landless Workers’ Movement (MST)
Nelsa Inês Fabian Nespolo, "We Will Overcome Cooperative of United Seamstresses"
Ana Vanesca and Pedro Cardoso, City of Plastic and the Urban Resistance Front
Eliana Sousa Silva, favela activist
Raimundo Belmiro, rubber tapper and environmental activist
Peru
Introduction by Raphael Hoetmer and Mar Daza
Hugo Blanco, writer and activist
Margarita Pérez Anchiraico, community organizer in National Confederation of Peruvian Communities Affected by Mining (CONACAMI)
Magdiel Carrión, Ayabaca Provincial Federation of Peasant Communities, CONACAMI
Luzmila Chiricente and Sari Salinas Ponce, Regional Federation of Ashaninka, Nomatsiguengas, and Kakintes Women from the Central Jungle (FREMANK)
Veronica Ferrari, Homosexual Movement of Lima
Bolivia
Introduction by Ben Dangl
Pedro Portugal Mollinedo, editor of Pukara
Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, scholar and activist
Julieta Ojeda, Mujeres Creando/Women Creating
Oscar Olivera, writer and activist
Paraguay
Introduction by Ben Dangl
Oscar Caceres, Secretariat of Information and Communication for Development (SICOM)
Hipólito Acevei and Emiliano Vera, Coordination for the Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples (CAPI)
Jorge Galeano, Popular and Agrarian Movement (MAP)
Liz Becker, Social and Popular Front
Francisco Estigarribia, member of National Coordination of Adolescent and Child Workers (CONNATs)
Marielle Palau, BASE Social Research
Uruguay
Introduction by Raúl Zibechi
Helios Sarthou, Frente Amplio/Broad Front
Gustavo, Pablo, and Noelia, Galpón de Corrales community center
Argentina
Introduction by Marie Trigona
Diego Benegas Loyo, H.I.J.O.S. (Daughters and Sons for Identity and Justice Against Forgetting and Silence)
Franco Basualdo, Prensa de Frente
Ernesto "Lalo" Paret, Movement of Recovered Companies
Claudia Acuña, Colectivo lavaca
Chile
Introduction by Marcy Rein
Edmundo Jiles, José Calderón Miranda Human Rights Committee
Iván Fuentes, Social Movement for Aysén
La Negra, feminist activist
José Ancalao, Federation of Mapuche Students
Marjory Cuello, Confederation of Chilean Students (CONFECH)
Contributors
Acknowledgments
Resources