People in the US are looking to South America for inspiration in occupying homes and factories Story Transcript JESSE FREESTON, PRODUCER, TRNN: In a recent segment on The Real News, we looked at how Brazil’s Porto Alegre participatory budgeting experiment has been emulated in more than 1,000 municipalities across the world, including Chicago’s 49th Ward. […]
Author Archives: Ben Dangl
Benjamin Dangl has worked as a journalist throughout Latin America for the Guardian Unlimited, The Nation, and the NACLA Report on the Americas. He is the author of The Price of Fire: Resource Wars and Social Movements in Bolivia (AK Press) and Dancing with Dynamite: Social Movements and States in Latin America (AK Press). He is the editor of TowardFreedom.com, a progressive perspective on world events and co-founder of UpsideDownWorld.org, a website on activism and politics in Latin America. Dangl teaches South American history and globalization at Burlington College. He can be reached by email: Bendangl(at)gmail(dot)com
