Unfortunately, most do no more than describe how much troubles have grown since the last conference and set the stage for the next one, as PNS associate editor David Bacon reports on this roundup of the recent World Food Summit in Rome. Bacon is a freelance writer specializing in immigration and labor issues. At the core of that strategy is the recognition that human relationships are the key resource for turning lives around. The Untold Spy Story that Changed the Course of the Vietnam War. Representatives of farmer and peasant organizations, reports PNS editor David Bacon, are calling for guaranteed rights to produce, access to land, greater control of marketing, and the preservation of diversified agriculture.
Bacon writes regularly on labor and immigration issues.
The most important thing Texans will remember about last week's unusual senate race is how an upstart Texas school teacher poked his finger in the eye of the political establishment and almost got away with it. Would-be insurgents, especially Hispanics, are pouring over the lessons of Victor Morales' campaign. PNS correspondent Carlos Hamann is a freelance reporter based in El Paso. A prime catalyst is the 1994 death of an undocumented Mexican immigrant while in police custody in Lincoln, Nebraska. Like the Rodney King case in African American communities, the case of Francisco Renteria is sending waves of outrage through once-hermetic congregations.