Protests stop a mine in El Salvador, for now
Here's another quick update from El Salvador regarding a highly contested mine and what life is like for anti-mining activists. The story of one of the murdered activists mentioned in this clip, Marcelo Rivera, was included in Jamie Moffett's documentary Return to El Salvador. See my interview from last summer with Jamie here. This video clip is three minutes.
Singing with murderers in Argentina
Yesterday I stumbled upon a video segment from Artscape, an Al Jazeera English television show dedicated to "[giving] expression to the creative forces behind many of the world's headline stories." This particular segment focused on a hellish prison in Argentina, where the country's worst criminals are being rehabilitated through music. Apparently, recidivism rates are being drastically reduced as these men are discovering life beyond the cycles of violence that have defined their lives. I like this quote from Juan Pablo, the psychologist who leads the choir:
If you want to get rid of crime, you can’t just make the criminal disappear. You have to give him another chance. I feel responsible. You can’t just moan about crime and do nothing.
The segment is below. It's 25 minutes long and worth every minute.
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