Venezuela: From Milk and Honey to (Maybe) Bread and Water
(Note: On July 28th, 2016 I submitted this to the last remaining left website where I’d heretofore been able to publish and now, two weeks later, have yet to hear back from them. When I submitted articles praising Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution, they were published the next day. I understand it’s hard for people to hear…
Ana Manuela
Ana Manuela explains the history and her involvement in the Brazillian MST (Movimento dos Trabalhadores Sem Terra).
A Day at Can Masdeu
Agroecological anarchist squat in the Vall de Can Masdeu is an inspiration to many in the city of Barcelona, Spain. In this video members of the community talk about their community, about anarchism and the history of their struggle. And they muse on why their project works so well.
Madrid: 4th Anniversary of the Indignados
We arrived in Madrid on the fourth anniversary of the Indignados uprising. Here we captured a few of the scenes from the demonstration and a great interview with Nacho Murgui Parra, an “indignado” running for city council on the Ahora Madrid ticket. He has some great things to say about the relation between social movements…
Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out
This film is a voyage into Latin America’s most exciting experiment of the new millennium, exploring the history and projects of the Bolivarian Revolution through interviews with a range of its participants, from academics to farm workers and those living in the margins of Caracas. This introduction to the “revolución bonita” (“pretty revolution”) offers in-depth…
Yukpa: Blood on the Mountain
This is a trailer for a film Arturo Albarrán and I are working on about the situation of the Yukpa of the Sierra de Perijá, on the border of Venezuela and Colombia. In Venezuela a number of Yukpa leaders and family members of Ana Maria have been beaten, threatened and killed over the past three…
Interview with Javier Corrales (Stanford University, March 4, 2017)
(Note: This first appeared at Caracas Chronicles) I was fortunate enough to meet and interview Corrales at the Venezuela at the Crossroads event on March 4 of this year. If you haven’t read his excellent book Dragon in the Tropics, co-authored by Michael Penfold, you should. It’s a great exposé on the Bolivarian Revolution. I started off with…
In the Shadow of the Revolution
Our new movie (Venezuelan filmmaker Arturo Albarrán and I teamed up on this one) is now online and available for download and viewing. It’s a look at the crisis in Venezuela from the perspective of left social movements and left political activists of the opposition. It gives lie to the Bolivarian narrative that a left…