The most recent book I've fallen in love with is The Humanure Handbook by Joseph Jenkins. The premise is composting poo instead of flushing it. For a long time I've known about the waste disaster of flushing with water, but I never knew the solution was so simple.

Conclusiones del “Encuentro por la biodiversidad contra el modelo sojero en América Latina ( Read more... )

Huerta can mean anything from a small backyard garden to a sizable farm. I'm enjoying the size of the space we're working, one hectare, which convert-me says is 2.47 acres in the US and Britain and 1 cho in Japan. It's 10,000 square meters, a 100 by 100 meter square of flat earth, a city block, but without the city. We have one important city ( Read more... )

The title is a term stolen from Dan Savage, who often inserts diatribes against the rights attack on personal freedom into his sex advice column.

Beyond Marriage is an interesting document composed by a small group of LGBT and queer activists and later signed by whole bunch of important people in that field and in family and human rights work in ( Read more... )

My trip to Rosario paid off. Met lots of great people, did some important networking, and spread the word for the anarchist reunion we're organizing in Tucuy Paj. All that I was pretty sure I'd accomplish. The more ambitious part of the plan was to get hooked up with some kind of rural movement, get involved in organic food production. Well, it ( Read more... )

Sorry to be out of touch for a bit. I just got back from a week in the countryside. I went with the family of two friends, Paula and Juan, a sister-and-brother team of activists that I met here in Rosario. We went to Gato Colorado, the last town in the province Santa Fe, before crossing into the Chaco. Ecologically and culturally, it's pure ( Read more... )

I didn't want to believe it, I wanted to find another explanation, but I can't. I think the Mexican government, certainly with US knowledge and probably with US cooperation and even direction, is training cops and soldiers to use rape as a weapon against popular resistance. There are already 5 confirmed cases of rape in the fall-out of the siege ( Read more... )

The government is always trying to make itself out to be a great help to the people, an important player in every issue, absolutely indispensable for any undertaking, and the sycophant press is usually goes along with that image, or suggests that the only alternative is big business. The idea that people in general can organize their own affairs ( Read more... )

What generally passes for agriculture these days is really anything but. "Culture" after all, refers to the reproduction of life, the construction of social existence. What Monsanto and friends are doing is not that. It is agribusiness, or the food-stuffs industry, but it is not agriculture. It is really an extractive industry, a form of ( Read more... )

Trying to prepare myself for the conference on soy, I started reading stuff online. I began to despair though, because there is so much material to read, and I have to pay by the hour for internet. Luckily Rosa was there to plug me into the network of research possibilites that exist in Buenos Aires counterculture. She started making phone calls ( Read more... )