CASUALTIES
OF ‘SECURITY’
One year of war on immigrant workers. Reports by David Bacon, Katherine Glover, Ben Plimpton, Octavio Ruiz and Alisa Solomon

Technology: PERUVIAN VS. MICROSOFT
Lawmaker energizes open-source movement. Katherine Glover reports.

Colombia: DOWN TO BUSINESS
U.S. firms dirty their hands. Julia Olmstead reports.

Antisweatshop Movement:
LOOSE THREADS
After a decade of organizing,
activists say it’s time they pulled together. Dan La Botz reports.

Bolivia:
BIRTH OF A MOVEMENT Campesinos in South America’s poorest country begin to reclaim what’s theirs: the land. Peter Lowe reports from Tarija.

Venezuela:
SPECIAL FORCES
Slum dwellers confront coup leaders and rescue democracy. Steve Ellner reports from Caracas, plus a timeline and an honest look at the U.S. role.

Puebla-Panama Plan:
LAST HARVEST?
An industrialization blitz threatens Central America’s indigenous. Linda Jones reports from La Quetzal, Guatemala.

Brazil: STAGE MIGHT
Finding strength in art, landless workers dispel media-fed myths about the hemisphere’s largest social movement. Malcolm McNee reports from Porto Alegre.

World Social Forum: CAMPFIRE
From the looks of 15,000 youths meeting in Brazil, the movement’s future is bright (Melissa Hysing).

Argentina: ROAD WARRIORS Blocking highways, unemployed workers lead a movement for basic change (James Petras). Plus analyses of the nation’s economic crisis (Roberto Barreiras, Mark Weisbrot, Greg Palast and Eduardo Galeano).

Bilingual Education: CLASS DISMISSED
The English-only movement tries to kill what works. Stephen D. Krashen reports.

Colombia: ROAD SIGNS
A 1,600-mile drive in search of answers about the war. Gary Payne reports from a highway in Santander Province.