"We are all Zapatistas"
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Zapatistas, a global justice movement of Mexican insurgents, aimed to dissolve power down to the level of communities by taking back what they claimed was rightly theirs, before governments and private economic interests stole it from them. They were the first organized popular uprising against the entire neoliberal economic order.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2003
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Latin America looks left: How will Washington respond to this new populist wave?
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The deepening economic crisis and grassroot movements witnessed across Latin America are driven not by ideology but by opposition to the harsh policies imposed by International Monetary Fund and other international lenders and desire for social justice. It remains to be seen how Washington will respond to this new populist wave.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2003
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Giant sucking sound rises in the East
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Ten years after the creation of the North American Free Trade Agreement, jobs in factories in Mexico are now moving to China. Ironically, some of those factories were ones that moved from the US to Mexico because of NAFTA.
Publication Name: Utne: A Different Read on Life
Subject: General interest
ISSN: 1544-2225
Year: 2003
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