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On May 1, Bolivia's president Evo Morales (R) issued a decree nationalizing Bolivia's oil and natural gas resources. Moments later the army announced the takeover of the nation's oilfields. AFP/Getty Images
Evo-lution
After 100 days in office, President Evo Morales announced the nationalization of Bolivia’s oil and gas reserves. What effect will there be on American consumers and Bolivia’s poor? Plus, the Greenpoint fire, Newark's mayoral race and antiquities in museums: plunder on display or preserved heritage? A museum director and an archaeologist discuss the ethics of acquiring and studying artifacts of the ancient world.
Up in Flames
Tom Robbins, columnist for the Village Voice
-on the fire in Greepoint and the history of Joshua Guttman, the owner of the warehouses destroyed
and
Lisa Kersavage, CRESS/RFR Fellow of Historic Preservation at the Municipal Arts Society
- on the historic loss of the Greenpoint warehouses
» Village Voice
» Municipal Arts Society
Den of Antiquity
Malcolm Bell, professor of art history at the University of Virginia an vice president of the Archaeological Institute of America
and
Timothy Potts, director of the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth, TX
- on legal and ethical concerns in acquiring antiquities
» Professor Malcolm Bell
» Wikipedia on Morgantina
» Kimbell Art Museum
Evo-lution
Carol Graham, professor of public policy at the University of Maryland, senior fellow in the Economic Studies Program at the Brookings Institution, and co-director of the Center on Social
and Economic Dynamics
and
Ben Kohl professor of geography and urban studies at Temple University and co-author with Linda Farthing, Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance (Zed Books, 2006)
- on Bolivian president Evo Morales's decision to nationalize the nation's energy industry
» Carol Graham's bio at the Brookings Institute
» Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance (Zed Books, 2006)
The New Newark?
Clement Price, professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark
and
Walter Fields, vice president of political development at the Community Services Society of New York
- on the Newark Mayoral election
» Rutgers University in Newark
» Community Services Society of New York
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