Daniel Chavez has written a very insightful piece on the changes in Porto Alegre under the new administration, which has kept the form, but “watered down” the substance of PB. It’s in the most recent Red Pepper. For those who read portuguese, CIDADE has been reporting about the precisely this, and importantly, how civil society…

The site is finally up, basically functional, if not aesthetically perfect yet.  In the coming days we’ll fix the formatting on the main and subsidiary pages.  Please let us know if you find broken links. Boston Review has just published an essay of mine, The Citizens of Porto Alegre, as part of a symposium on…

MIDWEST SOCIAL FORUM 2006 JULY 6-9, 2006 Milwaukee, WI University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Student Union http://www.mwsocialforum.org Preparations for Midwest Social Forum (formerly aka RadFest) 2006 are well under way. See below for updates on how you can get involved in this annual gathering of grassroots organizations, community activists, and others committed to social justice movement building.…