Taking Note
FR
A Few Changes in the Magazine here are a few present and pending changes we would like to bring to your attention in this first issue of the 27th volume of NACLA Report on the Americas. For...
...See the masthead for the new institutional, foreign and multi-year rates...
...Such a magazine has been evolving ever since...
...This would dramatically increase the community of activists and scholars who are a part of NACLA, and make the interaction within that community all the more lively, up-to-date and useful...
...and to help build and inform a community of people who wish to learn more about how our lives affect the lives and aspirations of over 200 million Latin Americans...
...Like the news project, this will make our connection with the region more immediate and give us direct access to critical Latin American thinking...
...Volume I, Number 1 of the NACLA Newsletter, published in the heat of new-left mobilization in February, 1967, consisted of 10 stapled-together mimeographed and photocopied pages...
...It will also enable us to report news that is compiled in the region, thus bypassing the editorial filters of the U.S...
...First, and most immediate, we are establishing a regular working relationship with our compafieros at the Latin American Information Agency (ALAI) in Ecuador, and at Cuadernos del Tercer Mundo in Brazil...
...At least since the mid-1970s, NACLA has attempted to broaden its core community of committed activists and scholars-and to provide information and analysis to a larger group of concerned individuals-by making the magazine less intimidating and more readable...
...For one thing, after two years of five-times-a-year publication, we are resuming a bimonthly schedule...
...Think of these projects as part of our political mission, and let us know what you think...
...Beginning next winter, with the help of these organizations and a number of friends writing from several countries in the hemisphere, we will publish a regular section of brief regional news coverage...
...And to cover the constantly rising costs of publishing, we are raising the price of a single issue to $4.75...
...A second pending project is the publication of a regular column of critical analysis written by a single prominent writer, or perhaps by several alternating writers from Latin America and/or the Caribbean...
...In addition to these substantive format changes, we are still working on other ways to make the magazine more appealing, attractive, and yes, more enjoyable to read-political cartoons, more illustrations, maybe even a NACLA crossword puzzle...
...NACLA remains the kind of project that only makes sense within the context of a larger community of activists and scholars...
...To cover the cost of producing an extra issue each year, we've raised our subscription rates to $27 per year-a modest 10 cent increase in the per-issue price...
...The original Naclistas got together to uncover the logic of that invasion, and, more broadly, "to identify and explain those elements and relationships of forces in the United States and Latin America which inhibit and frustrate urgently needed profound social and economic change...
...The presence of an art director allows us to pay closer-and more professional-attention to questions of layout and design, with an eye to producing a more accessible and attractive magazine.This effort is part of an old NACLA tradition...
...As we reach out to new readers, our overriding goal is to continue our 26year-old tradition of publishing a magazine that is useful-useful to activists, scholars and citizens trying to make sense of the world in order to change it...
...Thanks to a recent "outreach" grant, we have been able to hire a half-time art director who has taken just enough burden off the two editors to make the production of that sixth issue possible...
...o further that goal, we have a few other changes in mind, all of which require resources we hope to be able to muster over the medium-term future...
...NACLA was founded in November, 1966, in response to the Johnson Administration's April 1965 invasion of the Dominican Republic...
...This will allow us to stay more on top of recent events without sacrificing the analytical focus of our longer articles...
...We are also exploring the possibility of publishing a Spanish-language edition of the magazine further down the road...
...press...
...NACLA was born of the belief that through careful study, the "elements and relationships" of exploitation could be revealed, and once revealed, opposed by an informed public...
...By the second issue of the newsletter, NACLA staffers were calling for the development of a magazine that "would seek to encourage indepth research and journalism conducive to analysis and action...
Vol. 27 • July 1993 • No. 1
