New Orleans In an assessment of the “war on poverty” almost 50 years after President Lyndon Johnson sounded the battle cry, Eduardo Porter in the Times noted that the real progress has only been to move the enemy lines from 19% of the American people to 16% of the population. Part of the problem is …
Category: Protests
Weapons of the Weak
Rock Creek Reading a short book on revisiting the practice of anarchism by James C. Scott during the last year I became aware of his earlier work, Weapons of the Weak: Everyday Forms of Peasant Resistance, which I was sure was even more up my alley. The book, published in 1985, is based on anthropological …
Learning from the Protests in Brazil
Toronto The work of the Free Fare Movement in Brazil has triggered mass movements and mobilizations for change in Brazil. The simplest of their demands, reducing what is reportedly a somewhat modest fare increase, has already been met in the major cities of Sao Paolo and Rio de Janeiro, but as the numbers have increased, …