Dana Frank

The Long Honduran Night (eBook, ePUB)

Resistance , Terror, and the United States in the Aftermath of the Coup

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Honduras story matters because it lies at the dangerous center of U.S. political, economic, and military power in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dana Frank is a frequently featured expert on Hounduras and has been interviewed on many major news outlets.

Whatever plan the Trump regime may follow, they promise to build on previous presidential policies featuring murderous security forces, funded by the US government, clearing the path for transnational corporations and US geopolitical power in the region.

Post-coup Honduras also matters because it is a beautiful story of successful grassroots, transnational organizing in the face of unrelenting terror.

The outrage over the murder of Hounduran activist Berta Carceres was widespread across Latin America and the US. Her story is told in a final chapter in the book.

The book will also be of interest to other broad audiences interested in empowering stories of grassroots organizing, Latin American social movements, and the inner workings of solidarity work in Congress.

It is an accessible and evocative text, and the combination of personal stories and large context makes it both readable and instructive.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Haymarket Books
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781608469611
• Artikelnr.: 54497838

Autorenporträt

Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments (City Lights, 2007) and, with Howard Zinn and Robin D.G. Kelley, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Beacon, 2001). Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted, with a new introduction, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Story, Win Big (2012). Long active in labor solidarity work, since 2000 she has worked with the US Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP) in support of the banana unions in Latin America. Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, Politico Magazine, Foreign Affairs.com, The Baffler, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and many other publications, and she has testified in both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
Chapter One:
Learning Curves: Resistance and Repression, 2009-2010
Chapter Two:
Locked Down: Campesinos, Police, and Prisoners, 2010-2011
Chapter Three:
Power in the North: Media, Solidarity, and the US Congress, 2012-2013
Chapter Four:
A Dictator Rises: Hernández and his US Friends, 2013-2014
Chapter Five: Borderlands of Good and Evil: Immigrants and Indignados,
2014-2015
Chapter Six:
Boomerangs:Berta Cáceres and the View from the Backyard, 2016-2017
Acknowledgements
Sources
Index