Nonviolent resistance, semi-autonomous zones, and people power

Reason‘s Jesse Walker surveys some of the recent nonviolent protests in Latin America and elsewhere, pointing out that those which are seen as not aligned with U.S. interests tend to receive much less favorable coverage in the mainstream press.

He also discusses some of the more interesting and creative ways that people have been taking power back from oppressive and exploitative governments, not by guerilla war and insurrection, but through strikes, protest, nonviolent resistance, and even setting up alternative social structures.