For those who reject police-and-prisons-dominated responses to violence, what's the alternative? Sujatha Baliga and Mia Mingus spoke about restorative and transformative justice at a recent symposium in Berkeley. Clarissa Rojas talked about feminism as an anti-imperialist project and about what she calls the medicalization of anti-violence work.

What can be learned from the history of US disaster relief in Ethiopia, Mexico, El Salvador, Armenia, and Haiti? Alexander Poster has written about the role disaster aid has played from the Reagan administration to the present and the opportunity crises have afforded the United States, via USAID and private agencies, to exert economic and political influence on devastated countries.

To say that there are 50 million Latinos in the US is to suggest that the category of "Latino" is clear-cut and straightforward. But is that true? Tomas Almaguer highlights the ambiguities; he also examines how Latinos, a tremendously diverse population, have been racialized, and how they racialize each other. Almaguer brings up as key factors both the US Census and Spain's colonization of Mexico and Puerto Rico.

It's incredibly bloody -- and incredibly misunderstood. What has come to be known as the Mexican drug war, but would be better viewed as the US-Mexico drug trade, has claimed nearly 50,000 lives since 2006, including those of many journalists. Mexico-based writer John Gibler talks about the politics and economics of an industry that involves enormous sums of money, territorial violence, mega-profits, and the collusion of governments and banks. (Encore broadcast.)

It's incredibly bloody -- and incredibly misunderstood. What has come to be known as the Mexican drug war, but would be better viewed as the US-Mexico drug trade, has claimed 40,000 lives since 2006, including those of many journalists. Mexico-based writer John Gibler talks about the politics and economics of an industry that involves enormous sums of money, territorial violence, mega-profits, and the collusion of governments and banks.

Mexico has a grand revolutionary tradition, a radical lineage that James Cockcroft argues lives on in current-day struggles both within Mexico and among US-based immigrants. Cockcroft discusses the radical visions of the revolutionaries of 1910-1917; the ideological roots of waves of resistance to Mexican and US elites; and the elections-related turmoil that's periodically plagued Mexico.