Until the Rulers Obey by Clifton Ross

Until the Rulers Obey by Clifton Ross

Until the Rulers Obey brings together voices from the movements behind the wave of change that swept Latin America at the turn of the twenty-first century. These movements have galvanized long-silent--or silenced--sectors of society: indigenous people, campesinos, students, the LGBT community, the unemployed, and all those left out of the promised utopia of a globalized economy. They have deployed a wide range of strategies and actions, sometimes building schools or clinics, sometimes occupying factories or fields, sometimes building and occupying political parties to take the reins of the state, and sometimes resisting government policies in order to protect their newfound power in community.

This unique collection of interviews features five dozen leaders and grassroots activists from fifteen countries presenting their work and debating pressing questions of power, organizational forms, and relations with the state. They have mobilized on a wide range of issues: fighting against mines and agribusiness and for living space, rural and urban; for social space won through recognition of language, culture, and equal participation; for community and environmental survival. The book is organized in chapters by country with each chapter introduced by a solidarity activist, writer, or academic with deep knowledge of the place. This indispensable compilation of primary source material gives participants, students, and observers of social movements a chance to learn from their experience.

Contributors include ACOGUATE, Luis Ballesteros, Marc Becker, Margi Clarke, Benjamin Dangl, Mar Daza, Mickey Ellinger, Michael Fox, J. Heyward, Raphael Hoetmer, Hilary Klein, Diego Benegas Loyo, Courtney Martinez, Chuck Morse, Mario A. Murillo, Phil Neff, Fabíola Ortiz dos Santos, Hernán Ouviña, Margot Pepper, Adrienne Pine, Marcy Rein, Christy Rodgers, Clifton Ross, Susan Spronk, Marie Trigona, Jeffery R. Webber, and Raúl Zibechi.

Clifton Ross has been reporting on Latin American social and revolutionary movements since 1982. For the past decade he's been traveling to and fro in Latin America doing interviews for a book he co-edited with Marcy Rein, Until the Rulers Obey: Voices from Latin American Social Movements (2014, PM Press). His translations include Light and Truth: Manifestos and interviews on Spirituality and Politics by General Augusto Cesar Sandino (1984, CO-Press), A Dream Made of Stars: A Bilingual Anthology of Nicaragua Poetry (1986, CO-Press); Quetzalcü¾Œ¶˜¼atl, by Ernesto Cardenal (1990 New Earth Press; 1994 Stride Publications); and Voice of Fire: Interviews and Communiques from the Zapatista National Liberation Army (1994, New Earth Publications), the first collection of EZLN material to appear in English, co-edited by Ross and Ben Clarke. His translations of poetry from Spanish have appeared in a number of publications and online sites including Americas Review, Sniper Logic, The Underground Forest and elsewhere. A sampling of Clif's poetry appeared in the collection, When Good Dogs have Bad Dreams: Four American Poets (Stride Publications, 1996) and his collection of interviews with the poet William Everson appeared the same year in the UK with the same publisher in book form as William Everson: The Light the Shadow Casts (reprinted in 2012 by Freedom Voices Publications in honor of the centenary of the poet's birth). In 1997 Ross completed work on his BA in Creative Writing at San Francisco State University (SFSU) and he went on to get his MA in English at SFSU in 2003. In 2005, along with Genny Lim, Clif represented the U.S. in Venezuela's World Poetry Festival. From 2005-2006 he reported from Mü¾Ž–”¼rida, Venezuela and began work on his movie, Venezuela: Revolution from the Inside Out, which was issued by PM Press in Oakland, California in May, 2008. Clif's book, Fables for an Open Field (1994, Trombone Press, New Earth Publications), was released in Spanish by La Casa Tomada of Venezuela (2006). His book of poetry, Translations from Silence, won Oakland PEN's Josephine Miles Award, 2010. That book was published in Spanish in 2011 as Traducciones del Silencio, by Venezuelan Ministry of Culture's Editorial Perro y Rana.

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ISBN 13	9781604867947
ISBN 10	1604867949
Title	Until the Rulers Obey
Author	Clifton Ross
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	PM Press
Year published	2013-12-12
Number of pages	498
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