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A sectarian version of the lessons of Nicaragua
Typical Nicaraguan home: Permanent Revolution could have brought peace and prosperity, however As somebody who was very involved with Nicaragua solidarity in the 1980s, I was curious to see what...
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Letter to John Weeks
John Weeks Hello, John I don’t know if you remember me but I chaired the debate between you and Paul Berman just after the Sandinistas were voted out of office. Originally Michael Moore had agreed to...
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How a young Nicaraguan changed my life
Back in the early 1980s, when I had my first face-to-face with Peter Camejo about his new ideas for building a revolutionary movement, I asked where he got them since they were so different from...
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Plumpy’nut and the politics of food
Last Sunday’s New York Times Magazine section has a fascinating article titled The Peanut Solution that is focused on a food product called Plumpy’nut that is supposed to be a savior for children...
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Paul Baizerman— ¡Presente!
Like Proust’s madeleine dipped in tea, Google has always helped to stir up remembrances of things past: high school, Bard College, the SWP, etc. I pop a name into the search field and a flood of...
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Michael Urmann ¡Presente!
Michael Urmann, the founder of Tecnica, one of the important Nicaragua solidarity organizations of the 1980s, is dead. Michael Francis Urmann Nov. 20, 1944 – Apr. 28, 2012 Resident of Berkeley Michael...
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Bernie McFall, ¡Presente!
I just learned today of the death of Bernie McFall. I have great memories of Bernie as a returned Tecnica volunteer who worked with the N.Y. chapter to oppose contra funding and to provide material aid...
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Kill the Messenger
Given its Hollywood provenance, I expected very little from “Kill the Messenger”, a film starring Jeremy Renner as reporter Gary Webb, who after exposing the CIA’s role in facilitating Nicaraguan...
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The Tecnica video is back online
In July 2008 I digitized a video about Tecnica from VHS and posted it to Google/Video. This was before Google bought Youtube and when it was a reasonable alternative for longer videos like “Tecnica—at...
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Nicaragua’s industrialists? Say what?
Louis Proyect in Managua, November 1984 When I noticed that Bhaskar Sunkara had tweeted a link to a Jacobin article titled “Ortega’s Betrayal” written by Jonah Walters, I concluded immediately even...
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