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Mon 1.11.10| Pollution Politics

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Marco Armiero, ed., Views from the South: Environmental Stories from the Mediterranean World

Wasting Naples (Una Montagna di Balle)

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Where do issues of environmental justice, privatization, police repression, and popular resistance come together? In the case of the tumultuous garbage struggles in Italy's polluted Campania region. Marco Armiero describes the struggles, which he argues are ultimately about power (and its abuses) and democracy (and its absence). Also, Jerry Levy stars in Howard Zinn's play Marx in Soho.

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