Resource Update
LATIN AMERICA David M. Helfeld and William Wipfler, Mbarete-The Higher Law of Paraguay (International League for Human Rights, 1980). $5, paper, 213 pgs. Helfeld, professor of law at the Catholic...
...piso, Casilla 4629-A, Quito, Ecuador...
...7.95 paper, 273 pgs...
...ICARUS Films, 200 Park Avenue South, Rm...
...This Occasional Paper (#3) by the Massachusetts group supporting the rights of ethnic minorities and indigenous peoples, outlines and critiques plans to develop large-scale, open pit copper mining in the province of Chiriqui, 260 kilometers west of Panama City...
...Ducatenzeiler, an Argentine political scientist, now teaching at the University of Montreal, traces the development of Argentina's trade union movement following its participation in the Peronist alliance to its varying roles under subsequent regimes...
...International League for Human Rights, 236 E. 46th Street, New York, NY 10017...
...global mass communications...
...Pantheon Books, 201 E. 50th Street, New York, NY 10022...
...95, paper, 31 pgs...
...Meiselas, a frequent contributor to the NACLA Report, spent the months immediately preceding and following the fall of Somoza in Nicaragua recording varying aspects of Nicaraguans' lives on film...
...the new economic order...
...A", Montreal, Quebec, Canada H3C 3J7...
...border...
...Also addressed is the psychological impact on the families of disappeared persons and continuing repression against them...
...Emphasis is given to political and economic determinants and the role of the "labor aristrocracy...
...discounts to Church groups...
...Helfeld, professor of law at the Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and Wipfler, director of the National Council of Churches' Human Rights Office, conducted this study of human rights in Paraguay between October 1979 and April 1980...
...4.95, paper, 98 pgs...
...The Panamanian government and transnational mining corporations are pushing for exploitation of one of the world's largest known copper reserves which lies on land occupied by the Guaymi Indians...
...Written in a terse, outline-like style, the book presents the history of the Church's involvement in the struggle, interspersing factual accounts wtih personal observations and quotations from Romero...
...It forms the third of a series of League reports on the subject...
...The booklet is part of a series which regularly publishes statements from progressive groups throughout the region, providing much needed primary sources...
...The third covers these two years of reconstruction, presenting both accomplishments and problems, mostly through interviews with the people and leadership themselves...
...5.25, paper, 168 pgs...
...Center for the Investigation and Study of the Agrarian Reform, La Mosquitia en La Revolucion...
...1981...
...Ediciones Dominicanas Populares, Calle Fernando Alberto, Defillo 35, Santo Domingo, Republica Dominicana...
...Margaret Randall, Todas Estamos Despiertas-Testimonios de la mujer nicaraguense hoy (Siglo Veintiuno Editores, 1980...
...arms sales and control...
...PANAMA Chris N. Gjording, The Cerro Colorado Copper Project and the Guaymi Indians of Panama (Cultural Survival, Inc...
...The Slum Dwellers Movement in Peru and Inside Bolivia, 1981 are two recent releases in the "Reports from Latin America" series written by OXFAM-Canada personnel in the field...
...3, September-December 1980...
...3, Jun...
...The respected, Swedish peace research group's latest state-of-the-world report on armaments and disarmament...
...Coleccion Bias Real Espinales, 1981, 308 pgs...
...Illustrated with photos by the author...
...Statements are included from Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina, El Salvador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Colombia and Guatemala...
...Available in bulk from Food First, IFDP, 2588 Mission Street, San Francisco, CA 94110...
...Cassettes available for $5 each through National Federal Community Broadcasters, 1314 14th Street, N.W., Washington, D.C., 20005...
...L19.50, cloth, 518 pgs...
...An English edition of Randall's book is forthcoming on New Star of Vancouver, British Columbia, under the title, We're all Awake: Testimonies of Nicaraguan Women in Struggle...
...We would like to draw your attention to the following new solidarity resources: El Salvador...
...Nicarauac, Revista del Ministerio de Cultura de Nicaragua, No...
...Editorial El Conejo, 1981...
...The hungriest people in Latin America...
...This reprint from the International Socialist Review, a monthly supplement to the Militant, refutes the Reagan administration's purported proof of Soviet involvement in El Salvador's liberation struggle...
...Free, OXFAM-Canada, Ken Wyman, 175 Carlton Street, Toronto, Ontario M5A 2KS...
...Department of History, UCA...
...combatants...
...The report is based on extensive interviews with governmental and non-governmental representatives in Paraguay and compares the government's practice with their rhetoric and legal requirements...
...The author is a Salvadorean priest associated with the grassroots Christian communities and a close associate of Romero...
...the women's association, AMNLAE...
...Made by Jackie Reiter, contributor of an article on the growing division within the Nicaraguan Church to the May-June 81 Report, and her husband, Wolf Tirado, at the Managua film collective, Tercer Cine...
...Rental: $30 per week...
...Chapters group women thematically and are devoted to women historically...
...The revolution also speaks through song and poetry...
...The book was written at the invitation and with the aid of the Ministry of Culture and is based on interviews with 80 women of all ages, social status and level of involvement...
...II, num...
...Non-alignment is considered from five perspectives: the impact of non-alignment on the foreign policy of various countries...
...The first hour-long segment is called "From Independence to Independence,'' documenting Nicaragua's history of struggle from colonialism to the 1979 victory...
...Stockholm international Peace Research Institute, Oelgeschlager, Gunn & Hain Inc., 1278 Massachusetts Avenue, Harvard Square, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...Editorial El Conejo, 6 de diciembre 2309, 3er...
...and documented and presumed nuclear explosions...
...The photos are accompanied by a chronology of Nicaraguan history and quotations from those who participated...
...Valuable data on military uses of outer space...
...Fred Murphy, El Salvador-Why the U.S...
...Department of Propaganda and Political Education of the FSLN, 1981, 356 pgs...
...This recent Action Alert by the Institute for Food and Development Policy is a useful 4-page handout on the Salvadorean reality: starvation, government oppression and U.S...
...The 140 slides and the narrative examine reasons for emigration, the workers' fight for justice and the role of U.S...
...6128, succ...
...Amnesty International USA, 304 West 58th Street, New York, NY 10019...
...Write for price, paper, 299 pgs...
...national liberation movements...
...100 soles, paper, 247 pgs...
...Good source of analysis of the last few years in Ecuadoran political history...
...Department of Social Sciences, UNAM...
...Viva La Patria...
...Graciela Ducantenzeiler, Syndicats et politique en Argentine, 1955-1973 (Les Presses de I'Universite de Montreal, 1980...
...Cultural Survival, Inc., 11 Divinity Street, Cambridge, MA 02138...
...Les Presses de I'Universite de Montreal, C.P...
...75, paper, 50 pgs...
...La Frontera is a 25-minute slide/tape show on Spanishspeaking undocumented workers in the United States...
...Another tour de force in the Randall style of contemporary history, the book documents women's role in the Nicaraguan revolution through the voices of the women themselves...
...Pathfinder Press, 410 West Street, New York, NY 10014...
...MISCELLANEOUS Stockholm International Peace Research institute, World Armaments and Disarmament--SIPRI Yearbook 1981 (SIPRI, 1981...
...Included are four key policy speeches by Roldos, and articles by well known Ecuadoran politicians and journalists...
...The workbook is based on a June 1980 Amnesty seminar gathering human rights activists worldwide to share information and experience on "disappearances...
...Sale: $125 to individuals and citizen groups...
...Siglo Veintiuno Editores, SA, Cerro del Agua, 248, Mexico 20, D.F...
...Rental: $75 for classroom use...
...60 Amnesty International, 'Disappearances': A Workbook (Amnesty International, USA, 1981...
...Singham, ed., The Nonaligned Movement in World Politics (Lawrence Hill & Co., 1977...
...complicity in the crime...
...SeptlOct 1981 NICARAGUA Susan Meiselas, Nicaragua (Pantheon Books, 1981...
...Agence Latino-Americaine d'lnformation and Centro Dominicano de Intercambio de Informacion, El Frente Politico (Ediciones Dominicanas Populares, Documentacion Politico, Vol...
...5, April-June 1981 (Special issue on Christians and the revolution...
...Movement of Teaching Assistants, UCA, 1981, 274 pgs...
...arms build-up, a book which couldn't be more necessary...
...100 for public showings...
...Orbis Books, Maryknoll, NY 10545...
...The paper describes Guaymi conditions today and the project's probable impact...
...Government Hides the Truth (Pathfinder Press, 1981...
...The second, also an hour, discusses the social bases of the revolutionary strugglewomen, youth, Indians, religious people and workers...
...Direct distribution to radio stations through Pacifica Program Service...
...In light of the current U.S...
...Revolutionary Nicaragua is a four-hour cassette tape series in three segments, very useful for local radio stations...
...Apuntes "Curso Sobre La Problematica Actual...
...1319, New York, NY 10003...
...Lawrence Hill & Co., 520 Riverside Avenue, Westport, CT 06880...
...Of special interest to Church groups concerned about modern religion in a changing world...
...government and industry along the Mexican-U.S...
...This collection of political documents deals with the theoretical and political considerations of forming a united front...
...This volume collects the papers presented at a 1976 conference on nonalignment held at Howard University...
...Thank God and the Revolution is a 50-minute color film on the participation of the Church in Nicaragua's revolution...
...Individual papers deal with Argentina, Guatemala, Africa, the Philippines, the agencies responsible (such as Chile's DINA and Brazil's CODI-DOI) and government-sponsored death squads (such as El Salvador's ORDEN...
...A.W...
...4, January-March 1981...
...Murphy compares this most recent White Paper to earlier documents proving "Communist conspiracy" behind struggles in Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Cuba and Vietnam...
...What results is a moving collection of photographs that, in their scope and intimacy, give us a feel for what it meant to live and die in the revolution...
...Write for price, paper, 63 pgs...
...Published 12 days after the death of Ecuador's president in a plane crash, this book is both an homage to Jaime Roldos Aguilera and a hasty post-mortem to the movement that was known as roldocismo...
...the relationship between mothers and daughters...
...New Mexico People and Energy, Box 4726, Alburquerque, NM 87196...
...200 to institutions...
...11.95, paper, 103 pgs...
...This short work, first published in Spanish, follows the political development of murdered Salvadorean Archbishop Oscar Romero...
...We have received the following recent publications from Nicaragua: Habla La Direccion de la Vanguardia...
...and the impact on Afro-American peoples...
...59update . update . update o update EL SALVADOR Placido Erdozain, Archbishop Romero-Martyr of El Salvador (Orbis Books, 1981...
...He deals with the government's claims individually, making use of varied sources to back up his viewpoint...
...Available in Spanish or English...
...An excellent source of information on Latin America's new Catholic Church...
...and to various personalities...
...It contains suggestions for action and a list of educational materials...
...19.95, paper, 294 pgs...
Vol. 15 • September 1981 • No. 5
