Evo Morales – President of Bolivia from the MAS party (Movimiento al Socialismo, Movement Towards Socialism) – was forced to resign on November 10, in what many observers view as a coup. In the wake of Morales’ resignation, there has been mounting chaos and violence. What is happening in Bolivia is highly undemocratic and we are witnessing some of the worst human rights violations at the hands of the military and the police since the transition to civilian government in the early 1980s. We condemn the violence in the strongest terms, and call on the US and other foreign governments to immediately cease to recognize and provide any support to this regime. We urge the media to do more to document the mounting human rights abuses being committed by the Bolivian state.
On November 10, Morales’ vice president and the heads of both chambers of Congress also resigned in the face of threats of violence against top MAS officials unless they left office. The pressure campaign included the burning of MAS officials’ houses and kidnapping of relatives. This paved the way for the ascension to the presidency of Jeanine Áñez (a conservative Roman Catholic opposition leader from northeastern Bolivia, widely accused of holding racist views) on Tuesday November 12.
The circumstances surrounding the rapid-fire resignations makes Áñez’s assumption of power highly questionable. There are serious doubts about the constitutional legitimacy of her succession. Without the forced resignations by MAS officials, Áñez would not have had even a minimally plausible constitutional path to the presidency, as she was serving as Vice-President of the Senate, a position that is not in the line of presidential succession within the constitution. Additionally, Áñez, whose party received only 4% of the vote in the most recent October 20 election, declared herself President in a Senate session lacking quorum, with MAS senators who make up the legislature’s majority boycotting partly due to fears for their physical safety.
Áñez represents the radical-right sector of the Bolivian opposition, which has taken advantage of the power vacuum created by Morales’ ouster to consolidate control over the state. Áñez appears to have full support of Bolivia’s military and police. Over the course of the last week the military and police have engaged in significant and increasing repression against protests, which have been largely, though not entirely, peaceful. By the night of November 13, La Paz and Cochabamba city center streets were empty of anyone but the police, military, and self-appointed neighborhood militias. There has been ongoing looting, burning of buildings, and violence on the streets and protesters have been met with much repression. In a highly disturbing move, Áñez issued an executive order on November 15 exempting the military from criminal responsibilities related to the use of force. Áñez has said Morales will face prosecution if he returns to Bolivia. And she has also floated the idea of banning the MAS party – which is undoubtedly still Bolivia’s largest and most popular political force – from participation in future elections.
Equally disturbing has been a resurgence of public anti-Indigenous racism over the course of the last week. Shortly after Áñez was declared President, she thrust a massive Bible into the air and proclaimed “The Bible has returned to the palace!” Three days earlier on the day of Morales’ ouster, Luis Fernando Camacho, a far-right Santa Cruz businessman and ally of Áñez, went to the presidential palace and knelt before a Bible placed on top of the Bolivian flag. A pastor accompanying him announced to the press, “The Pachamama will never return to the palace.” Opposition activists burned the wiphala flag (an important symbol of Indigenous identity) on various occasions. These are extremist views that threaten to reverse decades of gains in ethnic and cultural inclusion in Bolivia.
Despite increasing violence and repression, diverse social forces have been demonstrating around the country to condemn the government of Áñez. It is important to note that they include not only MAS supporters but also a broad swath of popular sectors that repudiate the rightwing seizure of the state. Thousands of largely unarmed protesters, mostly coca-leaf growers, gathered peacefully in Sacaba, a town in the department of Cochabamba, on the morning of November 15. After unsuccessful negotiations to march to the town square, protesters tried to cross a bridge into the city of Cochabamba, heavily guarded by police and military troops. Soldiers and police fired tear gas canisters and live bullets into the crowd. During the two-hour confrontation, nine protesters were shot dead, and at least 122 were wounded. Most of the dead and injured in Sacaba suffered bullet wounds. Guadalberto Lara, the director of the town’s Mexico Hospital, told the Associated Press it is the worst violence he has seen in his 30-year career. Families of the victims held a candlelight vigil late Friday in Sacaba. A tearful woman put her hand on a casket and asked, “Is this what you call democracy? Killing us as if we counted for nothing?”
We denounce the repressive state violence unfolding in Bolivia. We also voice our concern that the international media have not been able to effectively cover the human rights violations in Bolivia as they too have been met by the violence of the military. On November 15, an Al Jazeera journalist covering protests in La Paz was gassed by the police in the streets and could no longer hold her microphone or camera. Although she later backed down, Áñez’s new minister of communications told the press that the government will not tolerate “seditious” media. This environment, in which freedom of the press is not only not guaranteed, but threatened by the government, has resulted in an alarming lack of coverage of the gross human rights violations being committed by the armed forces against civilian unarmed protesters.
We are outraged by the Áñez regime’s violations of Bolivians’ political, civil, and human rights, and by the deplorable use of deadly violence that has led to a mounting death toll of protesters and countless serious injuries. We call upon the international community to immediately and publicly condemn these acts of violence. We ask international human rights bodies and organizations to impartially investigate and document the acts of violence committed by government agents. We demand that the international community ensure that this de facto regime, which is at best highly dubious and viewed by many as lacking any legitimacy, protect the lives of peaceful protesters, respect the rights of all to freedom of assembly and speech, and strictly abide by international norms on the use of force in situations of civilian violence. We demand that the US and other foreign governments cease all support to this regime and withhold international recognition until free and fair elections – including all political parties – are held, repressive violence ceases, and the fundamental human rights of all Bolivians are respected.
List of Initial Signatories
Angela Davis, University of California Santa Cruz
Noam Chomsky, MIT and University of Arizona
Greg Grandin, Yale University
Molly Crabapple, Author and Artist
Emir Sader, University of São Paolo
John Pilger, Filmmaker and Journalist
Jodie Evans, CODEPINK
Robin D. G. Kelley, UCLA
Julia C. Salazar, New York State Senator
Javier Auyero, University of Texas, Austin
Sinclair Thomson, New York University
Brooke Larson , University of Stony Brook
John Ackerman, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Joel Beinin, Stanford University
Forrest Hylton, Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Medellín
William Robinson, University of California-Santa Barbara
Sujatha Fernandes, University of Sydney
Diana Taylor, New York University
Lesley Gill, Vanderbilt University
Mary Louise L. Pratt, New York University
Peter Hallward, Kingston University
James Dunkerley, Queen Mary University of London
Arlene Davila, New York University
Francisco Rodriguez, Oil for Venezuela Foundation
David McNally, University of Houston
Bertell Ollman , New York University
Gianpaolo Baiocchi, New York University
Steve Ellner, Universidad de Oriente
Daniel Denvir, The Dig Podcast
Micah Uetricht, Jacobin
Shawn Gude, Jacobin
Aviva Chomsky, Salem State University
Manu Goswami, New York University
Lisa Duggan, New York University
Jeffery R. Webber, Goldsmiths, University of London
Gabriel Hetland, University at Albany
Nicole Fabricant, Towson University
Ben Dangl, University of Vermont
Carwil Bjork-James, Vanderbilt University
Santiago Anria, Dickinson College
Samuel Handlin, Swarthmore College
Alejandro Velasco, New York University
Marcus Rediker, University of Pittsburgh
Bret Gustafson, Washington University, St. Louis
Jeffrey L. Gould, Indiana University
Alex Main, Center for Economic and Policy Research
John L. Hammond, Hunter College and Graduate Center CUNY
Marc Edelman, Hunter College and Graduate Center CUNY
Deborah Poole, Johns Hopkins University
Judy Helmand, York University
Barbara Weinstein, New York University
Rebecca E Karl, New York University
Marisol LeBrón, University of Texas at Austin
Miguel Tinker Salas, Pomona College
David Smilde, Tulane University
Dan Beeton, Center for Economic and Policy Research
Meagan Day, Jacobin
Susan Spronk, University of Ottawa
Tianna Paschel, UC Berkeley
Mark Healey, University of Connecticut
Kirsten Weld, Harvard University
Laura Enriquez, University of California Berkeley
Daniel Aldana Cohen, University of Pennsylvania
John Lindsay-Poland, Global Exchange
Christy Thornton, Johns Hopkins University
Thea Riofrancos, Providence College
Rebecca Tarlau, Penn State University
Eric Blanc, New York University
Edward E Baptist, Cornell University
Andrew Orta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
David Bacon, Independent Journalist
Michelle Fine, CUNY Graduate Center
Alphabetized List (Non-initial Signatories)
Jared Abbott, Harvard University
Rabab Abdulhadi, Director, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies, San Francisco State University
Rabab Abdulhadi, San Francisco State University
Marié Abe, Boston University
Raquel abrantes pego, Pesquisadora independente
Emily Achtenberg, Independent Journalist
Edwin Ackerman, Syracuse University
Jennifer Adair, Fairfield University
Eve Adams
Ujju Aggarwal, The New School
Sandra Aguilar Rodríguez, Moravian College, Pennsylvania
Robert Albro, American University
Ira Allen, Northern Arizona University
Enas Alsaffadi, CODEPINK
Patricia Alvarez Astacio, Brandeis University
Victoria Alvarez, University of Chicago, Alumna
Miriam Amancay Colque, Bolivian Aymara activist
Jens Andermann, New York University
Dave Anderson, Democratic Socialists of America, Boulder County Colorado chapter member
Molly Anderson, Middlebury College
Paige Andersson, DePauw University
Tony Andersson, DePauw University
Robert Andolina, Seattle University
Abigail Andrews, University of California, San Diego
Alessandro Angelini, Johns Hopkins University
Tom Angotti, Hunter College, CUNY
Mark Anner, Penn State University
Penelope Anthias, Durham University
Kevan Antonio Aguilar, University of California, San Diego
Mauricio Archila, Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Todd Arena, Albany Law School
Paul Arenson, Retired, Multiple Japanese universities
Olivia Arigho-Stiles, University of Essex
Peter Ashton, Royal Botanic gardens, Kew, U.K., Organismic and evolutionary Biology, Harvard University
Lynn Atephen, University of Oregon
Robert Austin, History Dept, University of Sydney
Dana Autry, Park University
Andres Avellaneda, Emeritus Professor - Center for Latin American Studies and Spanish and Portuguese Studies - University of Florida - Gainesville, Florida 32611 - USA
William Aviles, University of Nebraska at Kearney
Alexander Aviña, Arizona State University
Florence Babb, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Xóchitl Bada, University of Illinois at Chicago
Kyle Bailey, York University
Yousef K. Baker, California State University, Long Beach
Edoardo Balletta, Univ. di Bologna (Italia)
Paulo Vinicius Baptista da Silva, Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brasil
Javiera Barandiaran, University of California, Santa Barbara
Mario Barbosa Cruz,, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
David Barkin, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
Isabelle Bartter
Leslie Bary, University of Louisiana-Lafayette
Victoria Basualdo, CONICET-FLACSO Argentina
Daniel Bauer, University of Southern Indiana
Brad Bauerly, University of Vermont
Mueze Bawany, CTU
Rosa María Bayona Celis
Jon Beasley-Murray, University of British Columbia
Pierre Beaucage, Université de Montréal
Marc Becker, Truman State University
Peter Beckway
Carollee Bengelsdorf, Hampshire College
Natasha Bennett, University of Puget Sound
Nicholas Bennett, School Psychologist
Miriam J. Bensman, DSA member, NYC
Emilie Bergmann, University of California, Berkeley
Kristian berhost
Cindy Beringer
Bonsai Bermudez, Executive Director Youth Empowerment Performance Project (YEPP)
Anne Bernstein, Wright Institute
John Beverley, University of Pittsburgh
Craig Bialick, Turtlehill Sangha
Michelle Bigenho, Colgate University
Arthur Leigh Binford, CUNY College of Staten Island (Professor Emeritus)
Alison Black, University of California, San Diego
Maylei Blackwell, University of California, Los Angeles
Katharina Blank, Columbia
Judith Blau, Univ of North Carolina
Brad Bolman, Harvard University
Maggie Bolton, University of Aberdeen
William A. Booth, University of Oxford
Brian Bowhan
Jules Boykoff, Pacific University
Sumercan Bozkurt Gungen, Simon Fraser University
Benjamin Bradlow, Brown University
Pepijn Brandon, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam
Maure Briggs, March on the Pentagon
Ronald Briggs, Barnard College
Lina Britto, History, Northwestern University
Natalia Brizuela, University of California, Berkeley
Alejandra Bronfman, University at Albany, SUNY
Dan Brook, San Jose State University; Eco-Eating; SFVS; Jewish Veg
Magdalena Broquetas, Universidad de la República (Uruguay)
Claudia Brosseder, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
John Brown Childs, University of California, Santa Cruz
Julia Brown, University of California, Santa Barbara
Joe Bryan, Universtiy of Colorado
Melinda M Bunnage, Chicago DSA Co-Chair
James Burbridge
Rebecca Burns, Independent journalist
Carlos Bustamante, SUNY Albany
Maria Bustillos, Popula
Diego Bustos, University of New Mexico
Cornelia Butler Flora, Iowa State University/Kansas State University
Nick Buxton, Writer and Communications consultant
Pedro Caban, University at Albany
Amalia Cabezas, University of California, Riverside
Heath Cabot, University of Pittsburgh
Ana Caistor Arendar, Researcher and campaigner
lucia caistor-arendar, Independent researcher
Tristan Call, Vanderbilt University
Juana Camacho, Anthropologist
Maxwell A. Cameron, The University of British Columbia
John Cameron, Dalhousie University
Dominique Caouette, Universite de Montreal
Loretta Capeheart, Northeastern Illinois University, retired
Lauren Carasik, Western New England University School of Law
José Carlos Blázquez, Filosofía y Letras, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Juan Carlos Callirgos, Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru
Sara Carpenter, University of Alberta
Guadalupe Carrasco Lice, Profesora UNAM México
Jair Carrasco, DMV Bolivia Solidarity Network
Arturo Carrillo Rojas, Universidad Autónoma de Sinaloa
YM Carrington, Organizer, Raleigh-Durham IWW
Leah Anne Carroll, University of California, Berkeley
Lisa Carver
Matthew Peter Casey, Arizona State University
Candis Castillo
Nancy Castleman
Gloria Alicia Caudillo Félix, Universidad de Guadalajara, México
Sarah C Caufield, New York City Department of Education
Adela Cedillo, University of Notre Dame
Kate Centellas, University of Mississippi
Carolina Cepeda-Másmela, Universidad Javeriana
Hugo Ceron-Anaya, Lehigh University
Margaret Cerullo, Hampshire College
Victoria Ces
Hector Chang, CIMAT
Amanda Chapman
Michelle Chase, Pace University
Bhumika Chauhan, NYU, GSOC-UAW-2110
Carlos Chavez
Joaquín M. Chávez, University of Illinois at Chicago
Amy Chazkel, Columbia University
Willa Childress
Judith Chomsky, Human rights lawyer
Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal, Chulalongkorn University
Aziz Choudry, McGill University
Todd Chretien, editor, No Borders News
Socorro C. Cifuentes, Western Sydney University
Bruna Cigaran da Rocha, Universidade Federal do Oeste do Pará
James Cohen, Professor, Université de Paris 3 (Sorbonne Nouvelle)
Jennifer N. Collins, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point
Brendan Collins Jordan, New York University
Saulo Colón, New Politics
Caroline Conzelman, University of Colorado Boulder
Adam Coon, University of Minnesota Morris
Amy Cooper, Saint Louis University
Nicholas Copeland, Virginia Tech
Ximena Cordova, Zayed University
Kency Cornejo, University of New Mexico
Valeria Coronel, FLACSO Ecuador y CALAS-Andes
Guadalupe Correa-Cabrera, George Mason University
Joel Correia, University of Florida
Aleco Cossenas
Hanne Cottyn, University of York
Brett Cox, Sustainable Concordia
Mark Crispin Miller, New York University
Tomás Crowder-Taraborrelli, Visiting Assistant Professor of Latin American Studies
Marie Cruz Soto, New York University
Elyse Crystall, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Esther Cuatzon
Nick Cuba, Clark University
Jorge Cuéllar, Dartmouth College
Jordy Cummings, Red Wedge Magazine
Raf Custers, Independent Journalist, Brussels
Jennifer Cyr, University of Arizona
Sarah Marie D’Adamo, Johns Hopkins University
Stephen D’Arcy, Huron University College
Antônio da Silva Câmara, Proseeor de Sociologia UFBA
Alexandre E. Da Costa, University of Alberta
Danilo Uzêda da Cruz
Dia Da Costa, University of Alberta
Antonia Darder, Loyola Marymount University
James Daria, Georgia College and State University
Steven David Cohen, Researcher and Journalist
Sasha Davis, Keene State College
Maria Dayton, Transterra Media
Fabio de Sa e Silva, University of Oklahoma
Carmelo de los Santos, University of New Mexico
Caroline Cotta de Mello Freitas, Escola de Sociologia e Política/FESPSP
Roos De Witte
Ivonne del Valle, U.C. Berkeley
Guillermo Delgado-P., Univ. of California Santa Cruz
Diana Denham, Portland State University
Daniel Denvir, Host of The Dig Podcast
Lynne DeSilva-Johnson, Pratt Institute
Micaela di Leonardo, Northwestern University
Louis Di Paolo, Macquarie University, Sydney.
Lukas Dintenfelder, Universität Frankfurt
dwayne dixon, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Hervé do Alto, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis
Francisco Dominguez, Middlesex University, London, UK
Ana Dopico, NYU
Richard Drayton, King’s College London
Mark Driscoll, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Maurice Dufour, Marianopolis College Montreal
Ozzmon Dumas, SEIU HCIIMK
Luis Duno-Gottberg, Rice University
Kenya C Dworkin, Carnegie Mellon University
Chelsey Dyer, Vanderbilt University
Ethan Earle, DSA International Committee
Marcela Echeverri, Yale University
Nancy Egan, UNJu
Andrew Ehrinpreis, Queens College
Barry Eidlin, McGill University
Hester Eisenstein, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY
Paul Eiss, Carnegie Mellon University
Mercedes Ejarque, INTA / UBA
Elsy El Khoury, New York University
Rodolfo Elbert, Universidad de Buenos Aires - Conicet
Mira Eleanor Kohl, Tulane University
Gabriela Elisa Morales, Scripps College
Anne Eller, Yale University
M. Emilia Barbosa, Missouri University of Science and Technology
Kate Ervine, Saint Mary’s University
Martha D. Escobar, California State University, Northridge
Lilia Escobar, Chicago Boricua Resistance
Iraj Eshghi, NYU
Michel Estefan, University of California, Berkeley
Blanca Estevez, DSA National Political Committee
Alicia Estrada, Chicana/o Studies, California State University, Northridge
María Luisa Estudillo, Docente
Phyllis Ewen, Visual artist
Oscar Fabian Soto, University of California, Santa Barbara
Laura Fair-Schulz, The State University of New York at Potsdam
Cristina Inés Fangmann, Universidad de Buenos Aires
Rory Fanning, Veterans for Peace
Samuel Farber, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Brooklyn College of CUNY
Susan Farbstein, International Human Rights Clinic, Harvard Law School
Stephanie Farmer, Roosevelt University
Emma Felber, Independent scholar
Tracy S Feldman, St. Andrews University (NC)
Gordon Fellman, Brandeis University
Nick Feng, New York University
Raul Fernandez, Univ. of California at Irvine
Norberto Ferreras, Universidade Federal Fluminense
Barbara Fetonte, CWA Local 6186
Victor Figueroa, Wayne State University
Richard J. File-Muriel, University of New Mexico
Eric M. Fink, Associate Professor, Elon Law School
Alexandra Finley, University of Pittsburgh
Sibylle Fischer, New York University
Cory Fischer-Hoffman, Lafayette College
William H. Fisher, Department of Anthropology, College of William & Mary
Daniel Fitzsimmons, Retired
Hector Fletes Ocon, Universidad Autonoma de Chiapas
Joan Flores-Villalobos, The Ohio State University
Benjamin Fogel, New York University
Christine Folch, Duke University
Laura Foner
Marco Fonseca, York University
Anna Forné, University of Gothenburg
Patricia Fornera, Retired
Cindy Forster, Scripps College, Los Angeles County
John Forte, Social Studies Teacher at Trenton Central High School in Trenton, New Jersey
Dana Frank, University of California, Santa Cruz
Beth Frattali, Greenwood Friends School
Kelly Frazier
Laurel Fredrickson, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Anne Freeland, City University of New York
Joshua Frens-String, University of Texas, Austin
Gavin Fridell, Saint Mary’s University
Nathan Frisch, Vanderbilt University
Niklas Frykman, University of Pittsburgh
Pamela J. Fuentes, Pace University
Julie Gamble, Trinity College
Marco A. Gandasegui Jr, Universidad de Panama & Centro de Estudios Latinoamericanos CELA
Oscar A. Garate, Chilean-Spanish activist (Madrid-Spain)
Ivis Garcia, University of Utah
Alberto García, San José State University
José García, University of Illinois at Chicago
Carlos Gardeazabal Bravo, Colby College
Sheilah Garland-Olanitan, People’s Historian
Kimberly Gauderman, University of New Mexico
Maarten Geeroms, Ghent University
Molly Geidel, University of Manchester, UK
Mneesha Gellman, Emerson College
Cllr Gethin Jones, Labour party
Chihiro Geuzebroek, Filmmaker / Co-founder Climate Liberation Bloc
Julie Gibbings, University of Edinburgh
Raquel Gil Montero, CONICET - Instituto Ravignani
Tim Gill, University of North Carolina, Wilmington
Zsuzsa Gille, University of Illinois
Fr. Michael Gillgannon, Catholic Missionary
Dylan Gilman
Gabriel Giorgi, NYU
Jennifer Goett, Michigan State University
Wendy Goldman, Carnegie Mellon University
Felipe Gomez, Carnegie Mellon University
Mayra Gomez
Lidia Ernestina Gómez Garcia, Benemérita Universidad Autónoma de Puebla
Sebastián Gómez González, Universidad de Antioquia
Austin Gonzalez, DSA
Antonio González Guzmán, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM
Soledad González Montes, El Colegio de México
Maria Victoria Gonzalez Pagani, University of California, Santa Cruz
Hilary Goodfriend, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México
Justice Emily Jane Goodman, New York State Supreme Court
Jeff Goodwin, New York University
Gaston Gordillo, University of British Columbia
Kevin Gosztola, Journalist/Managing Editor for Shadowproof.com
Ara Goudsmit, Universidad de Los Andes, Bogotá
Kevin Gould, Associate Professor, Geography Dept, Concordia University
Diana Graizbord, University of Georgia
Aymer Granados García, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
Jamie Grant
Linda Green, University of Arizona
Jessica Greenberg, Anthropology, University of Illinois
Darin Greyerbiehl
Zoe Griffith, Baruch College, CUNY
KD Griffiths, CUNY
Thomas G. Griffiths, OsloMet University
Molly Grover
Josh Gryniewicz, Writer
Erika Gryniewicz
Alejandro Guardado, California State University, Los Angeles
Maria Guimarães, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Edward Guimont, University of Connecticut
Andrew Gunnoe, Maryville College
Alf Gunvald Nilsen, University of Pretoria
Encarnacion Gutierrez Rodriguez, University of Giessen, Germany
José Gutiérrez, Democratic Socialists of America
Steven Hahn, New York University
Jill Hamberg, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Jeanne Hannigan
John Harriss, Simon Fraser University
Michael Harvey, San Jose State University
Percy Hatcherson, Socialist
Matthew Hawkins, Carleton University
Nell Haynes, Colby College
Susanna Hecht, University of California, Los Angeles
Daniel Hellinger, Professor Emeritus, Webster University
Leslie Hempson, Denison University
Adam Henne, environmental educator
Jeffery Hermanson, International Union Educational League
David Hernandez, Social Justice HS
Irma Hernández Bolaños, UAM-I
Luis Herran Avila, University of New Mexico
Doug Hertzler, Practicing Anthropologist
Chris Hesketh, Oxford Brookes
Anasa Hicks, Florida State University
Kathryn Hicks, University of Memphis
James Hill, University of Pittsburgh
Sarah Hines, University of Oklahoma
Emily Hobson, University of Nevada Reno
Joan Hoffman, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, CUNY
Sam Holley-Kline, Florida State University
Bonnie Holsinger, Society of Friends
Chris Holt, London, UK
Joyce Horman, The Charles Horman Truth Foundation
Philipp Horn, University of Sheffield
Rob Hoveman, PhD student, Central European University
Rosaleen Howard, Newcastle University
Margarita Huayhua, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth
Daniel Husman, Hamline University
John Hyland, LaGuardia Community College, CUNY - retired
William I. Robinson, University of California, Santa Barbara
Sue Iamamoto, Universidade Federal da Bahia
Patty Ibur
Aiko Ikemura Amaral, King’s College London
Carlos Illades, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (México)
Jafar Iqbal, Penn State University
Clara Irazabal, University of Missouri - Kansas City
Robert irminger, Chair, San Francisco Inlandboatmen’s Union/ILWU
Claudia B. Isaac, University of New Mexico
Ryan Isakson, University of Toronto
Marcia Ishii-Eiteman, Senior Scientist, Pesticide Action Network
N. Ivalu Cacho, Instituto de Biología, UNAM
Cheryl Jacewicz
Martin Jacinto, University of California, Irvine
Ron Jacobs, Writer
Natalia Jacovkis, Xavier University
M. Jahi Chappell, Executive Director, Food First
Carla Jaimes Betancourt, University of Bonn
Arif Jamal, PhD student, Dept. Anthropology, University of Bristol
Aleena Janjua, Edmonds Community College
Kanishka Jayasuriya, Murdoch University
Vivian Jimenez Estrada, Algoma University
Luis F. Jiménez, University of Massachusetts Boston
Brian B. Johnson, Universidad Mayor de San Andres
Adriana Johnson, University of California, Irvine
Ethan Johnson, Black Studies Portland State U.
Steven Johnson
jamie jones, Professor literature New Jersey, USA
Steven Jordan, McGill University
Claudia Junqueira de Lima Costa, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil
Louise Kahn, Nurse Practitioner
Rohan Kalyan, VCU
Miles Kampf-Lassin, In These Times
Dip Kapoor, University of Alberta
Leisa Kauffmann, Wayne State University
Emil’ Keme, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Marie Kennedy, University of Massachusetts Boston
Dylan Kerrigan, University of the West Indies
Tanya Kerssen, Independent scholar
Dan Kervick, Independent Scholar
Rafael Khachaturian, University of Pennsylvania
Konstantin Kilibarda, York University
Stephen Kimber, University of King’s College
Donald Kingsbury, University of Toronto
John Kirk, Dalhousie University
Elizabeth Klarich, Smith College
Kyla Klein, Chicago IL, USA
Sherryl Kleinman, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Misha Kokotovic, University of California, San Diego
Sara Koopman, Kent State University
Tom Kruse, The New School
Clarice Kuhling, Wilfrid Laurier University
Richard Lachmann, University at Albany SUNY
Chibu S. Lagman, retired professor, Philippines & Canada
Elizabeth Lalasz, National Nurses United
Josh Lalonde, Independent Scholar
Dave Lambert
Pablo Lapegna, University of Georgia
Ana-Maurine Lara, University of Oregon
Pierre M. LaRamee, Independent Scholar
Wendy Lastine
Milton Läufer, New York University
Virginie Laurent, Universidad de los Andes
Sarah Lazare, In These Times
Aurora Lazarus
Donna Lazarus, United Federation of Teachers
Steve Leberstein, City College of New York
Rosemary Lee, Trinational Coalition in Defense of Public Education, US section
Adam E Leeds, Columbia University
Kathryn Lehman, The University of Auckland, New Zealand
Mishy Lesser, Upstander Project
Anthony Levenda, University of Oklahoma Geography
Zachary Levenson, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Eldad Levy, University of Texas, Austin
Holly Lewis, Texas State University
Clara E. Lida, El Colegio de México
Alexander Liebman, Rutgers University
Natasha Lightfoot, Columbia University
Amy Lind, University of Cincinnati
Peter Linebaugh, University of Toledo
Julie Livingston, New York University
David Lloyd, U.C. Riverside
Jules Lobel, Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh Law School
Gilberto López y Rivas, INAH MEXICO
David López García, Queens College, CUNY
Sixto López, Federación de Maestros de Puerto Rico
Deborah Lorainne Kean
james loucky, Western Washington University
Pablo F. Luna, Sorbonne Université, Paris
Pascal Lupien, University of Alberta
Elena M.Gutierrez, Situam
Maria Célia Teles Macêdo de Albuquerque
Alejandro Macias Macias, Universidad de Guadalajara
Dillon Mahmoudi, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
Katherine Maich, The Pennsylvania State University
Peter Maiden, Independent Journalist
Ava Mailloux, Workers United Local 2833
Brian w Major, Member, Communist Party of Canada
Korinta Maldonado, Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Victor Maldonado
Simeon Man, University of California, San Diego
Ryan Mann-Hamilton, CUNY LaGuardia
Bruce Mannheim, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Juan Manuel Avila, Comparative Literature
Scott Markley, University of Georgia
Jaime Marroquín Arredondo, Western Oregon University
Andrea Marston, Rutgers University
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Lauren Minsky, NYU
Manoj Misra, Western Ct State University
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Sylvia Molloy, NYU
Elizabeth Monasterios, University of Pittsburgh
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Brian Montes, John Jay College, CUNY
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Cos Tollerson, NYU
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William Torres, Musician
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Jim Uleman, New York University
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Ericka Verba, Director, Latin American Studies Program, California State University Los Angeles
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Marion Werner, SUNY-Buffalo
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Maryann Wolfe, Retired
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Emily Yates-Doerr, University of Amsterdam
Caroline Yezer, Independent Scholar, Anthropologist
Rachel Youens, The New School
Kevin A. Young, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Emma Young, New York University
Coletta Youngers, Washington Office on Latin America (WOLA)
Paula C. Zagalsky, CONICET, Argentina
Yasemin Zahra, US Labor Against the War
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Patricio Zamorano, Council on Hemispheric Affairs, COHA
Emma Zapata Martelo, Colegio de Postgraduados, Montecillo, México
Francisco Zapata, El Colegio de México
Ulises Juan Zevallos-Aguilar, Ohio State University
John Zibell Jr., University of Salford, UK
Ann Zulawski, Smith College
Dan Zulawski, Ceramicist
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