As more results from rural areas flood in, last Sunday’s recall referendum keeps looking better and better for Evo Morales and his Movimiento a Socialismo party. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised everyone by not only winning the recall referendum convoked by the right-wing [...] read more »

The Warrior A Play by Jack Gilhooley Produced by the Theater of the First Amendment Staged by the New York International Fringe Festival At CSV Milagro Theater, 107 Suffolk Street, through August 21 All tickets $15 Tammy (Marietta Elaine Hedges) was named after a movie. Giselle (Mary Lechter) was named after a ballet. Across that cultural divide, in high school, [...] read more »

For the Movimiento a Socialismo and Evo Morales, Sunday was indubitably a good day. After having won the Bolivian presidency in 2005 with approximately 54% of the popular vote, Evo surprised everyone by not only winning the recall referendum convoked by the right-wing opposition, but by winning big, with over 62% of the vote. Commentators [...] read more »

I Heart Hamas and Other Things I’m Afraid to Tell You A play written and performed by Jennifer Jajeh Staged by the New York International Fringe Festival At the Players’ Loft, 115 MacDougal Street, until August 24th All tickets $15 Meet Jennifer, a young Palestinian-American whose connection with her heritage in the last years of the 20th century, before the [...] read more »

This Sunday, Bolivia will experience an improbable voting process – a recall referendum which essentially plays out as a vote of confidence in every relevant political official in the country – from left-wing indigenous president Evo Morales and his vice president Alvaro García Linera and his Movement Towards Socialism (MAS) allies at the regional level [...] read more »

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The Exiles directed by Kent Mackenzie Milestone Films, 1961 “I’m not going to let you know how scared I sometimes get of history and its ways,” declares Jackson Jackson, the young Spokane (Wash.) narrator of Sherman Alexie’s “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” (from Ten Little Indians), “I’m a strong man, and I know that silence is the [...] read more »

We hope you can join us for this special evening…. “The 2008 Election: What’s Really At Stake?” featuring Naomi Klein, Jeremy Scahill, Roberto Lovato, Laura Flanders and Malia Lazu. Saturday, September 13 - 8pm The Great Hall at The Cooper Union. 7 East 7th Street (at Third Avenue), Manhattan. Tickets Sliding Scale $6 to $15 Special Advance Reception — A chance [...] read more »

On July 17th, the next sad chapter of the city’s failure to stand up to Columbia University’s plans to build a new campus in West Harlem-Manhattanville unfolded as the Empire State Development Corporation, the state body that has the power to seize properties from local business-owners and turn them over to the university, issued its [...] read more »