Martha Harnecker's guest appearances

Martha Harnecker

Accent of Women

Green Left Weekly Radio

Paul Adams

Kathryn Kelly

Dave Holmes

Troy Carter

Steve O'Brien

Bhaskar Sunkara

Rachel Evans

Kate Lee

Malcolm Turnbull

Miranda Stewart

Michael Moore

Ben Davis

Michael Lebowitz

Bruce Poon

David Mackenzie

OwlTail

Prestigious Chilean journalist, writer and commentator Martha Harnecker talks about social change in Latin America and the recent challenges that social movements and progressive governments are facing today. Discussing corporate and independent media, social organisation, revolutionary strategies, the role of the workers and more.Marta was a student of Louis Althusser in Paris and returned to Chile in 1968. After the bloody coup against the Allende government in Chile in 1973, she moved to Cuba where she became Director of the research centre “Memoria Popular Lationoamericana” (MEPLA) in Havana. Between 2004 and 2011, Marta lived in Venezuela, based at the Centro International Miranda research institute, and served as an advisor to President Chávez and to various Venezuelan institutions. She now lives in Vancouver.She is the author of over 80 books and monographs, some of which have been translated into English. Her book A World to Build won the “Literatador Prize for Critical Thinking” in 2013 and was published by Monthly Review Press in 2015. Her latest book Planning from Below: A proposal of decentralized participatory planning, was published in 2015 in Cuba and Spain, and now is in the process of translation into English.These talk was recorded at Victoria University in a meeting hosted by VU's Community Identity Displacement Research Network.

Accent of Women - Martha Harnecker on social change and challenges in Latin America today

Maureen Murphy

Articles:Murdoch, Labor and democracy: what's at stake? https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61779Brazil: Social movements denounce 'institutional coup' https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61803Interviews:Interview with Michael Lebowitz, Canadian Socialist, political economist and Marxist theorist who has spent alot of time in anti imperialist / socialist countries and has a well developed critique of failed 'socialism from above' strategies and who emphasises the importance of human development and protagonistic democracy. Listen here.Interview with Martha Harnecker, Chilean psychologist, pan Latin american activist and former advisor to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and author. Martha is a prominent investigator and commentator on experiences of social transformation in Latin America. Listen here.Interview with Maureen Murphy, one of the lead organisers of the Moreland says No to racism rally happening tomorrow. Maureen outlines the peaceful mass action strategy of the rally (which has been endorsed by over 60 organisations) and refutes some of the fearmongering that has been circulated in main stream media outlets regarding the rally.

Articles:Murdoch, Labor and democracy: what's at stake? <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61779Brazil:" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61779Brazil:</a> Social movements denounce 'institutional coup' <a href="https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61803Interviews:Interview" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.greenleft.org.au/node/61803Interviews:Interview</a> with Michael Lebowitz, Canadian Socialist, political economist and Marxist theorist who has spent alot of time in anti imperialist / socialist countries and has a well developed critique of failed 'socialism from above' strategies and who emphasises the importance of human development and protagonistic democracy. Listen here.Interview with Martha Harnecker, Chilean psychologist, pan Latin american activist and former advisor to Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez and author. Martha is a prominent investigator and commentator on experiences of social transformation in Latin America. Listen here.Interview with Maureen Murphy, one of the lead organisers of the Moreland says No to racism rally happening tomorrow. Maureen outlines the peaceful mass action strategy of the rally (which has been endorsed by over 60 organisations) and refutes some of the fearmongering that has been circulated in main stream media outlets regarding the rally.

 Interviews with Michael Lebowitz, Martha Harnecker and Maureen Murphy