2005 - March

Do young people coming up right now have a future? And do we care enough to fight for it? That’s the big question behind this issue of Dynamic.

Letters from Dynamic readers

Sgt. Camilo Mejia, who talked to Dynamic for our summer issue is now free!

International Clips

The All Burma Students League (ABSL) was formed on 30th July 1994 in New Delhi when student organizations of the India-based democratic forces of Burma came together for the first time.

Ten years ago, few people knew of Immokalee, and even fewer could find it on a map. Today, this severely impoverished town in rural southwest Florida, the heart of the state’s colossal agriculture industry, is the base of a movement whose shockwaves are reverberating throughout the country.

A movement is on the horizon. Since the late nineties, the work of organizations like the Student Labor Action Project (SLAP), United Students Against Sweatshops (USAS), and Student Action with Farmworkers (SAF) has created a resurgence in the alliance between students and labor.

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“For peace and solidarity, we struggle against war and imperialism�

The host country for the 16th World Festival of Youth and Students has seen amazing changes over the past few years. Recently, the US has started to indirectly threaten intervention with Venezuela’s internal affairs, claiming that the state ‘supports terrorism.’ Omar Sierra, a founding member of the Bolivarian Circles, talks to Dynamic about people power at work in Venezuela:

Prisons are unnecessary, yet we continue to fund them. They are supposed to change the criminals that are sent there into contributing citizens – yet everyone in a cell is just getting a kick in the ass from society.

Imagine a show about seven strangers picked to live together in a house. Their challenge? Find a real job (not one given to them by MTV) that provides a living wage, health insurance, and a career path. There’s no way out - not finding a job means the contestants on this show fail to support themselves or their families. That’s the real challenge facing us—young people in the US—and it’s rarely shown on TV.

A delegation of military family members whose sons died while fighting in the Iraq war traveled to Jordan from December 27, 2004 to January 4, 2005. The Families for Peace Humanitarian Aid Delegation delivered $600,000 worth of humanitarian supplies for refugees from the U.S. attack on Falluja. Dynamic speaks with Hany Khalil of United for Peace and Justice, who participated in the delegation.

Love + Revolution is the second full-length album from New York-based ‘Puerto Punx’ Ricanstruction. (Uprising Records, 2004)

Beautiful Struggle - Talib Kweli – (Geffen Records, 2004)) &
New Danger – (Universal Music, 2004)

The Freedom Shadows and Hallucinations in Occupied Iraq, by Christian Parenti (New Press, 2004)

Olga: Revolutionary and Martyr
by Fernando Morais • Translated by Ellen Watson
(Grove Press)