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  Walking to the Edge: Essays of Resistance

  ALICE AND CARLOS, THREE STORIES
  "We cannot develop and print a memory." —Henri Cartier-Bresson Can I call it Alice’s story? All I knew were a few of the corners, tangled years sloughed off in memory.
  Alice was a big woman. Stately, large-boned: those would have been the words used by people for whom it was all right to be big. A few might have said Amazonian. We were raised in an era of pinched waists. (...)
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  Gathering Rage

  Chapter 1 / Where It Suddenly Came Clear . . . (fragment)
  The scene is a solidarity conference in Managua, October 1991. A year and a half after its electoral defeat, the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN) has invited supporters of Nicaragua’s revolution to meet and analyze is current situation, and to talk about future strategies. We have come from Latin America, the United States and Canada, Europe, even Asia and Australia. I see no one from Africa. Women and men seem equally (...)
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  Coming Home: Peace Without Complacency

  Because of opinions expressed in several of my books, the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service ordered me deported in October of 1985. The government invoked the 1952 McCarran-Walter Immigration and Nationality Act, accusing me of "being against the good order and happiness of the United States." I was represented by The Center for Constitutional Rights, and many writers, artists, public officials, academics, students, union and religious people rallied to my cause. In August of (...)
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  Memory Says Yes

  THE GLOVES
  for Rhoda Waller
  Yes we did march around somewhere and yes it was cold we shared our gloves because we had a pair between us and a New York City cop also shared his big gloves with me
  strange, he was there to keep our order and he could do that and I could take that back then.
  We were marching for the Santa Maria, Rhoda, a Portuguese ship whose crew had mutinied. They demanded asylum in Goulart’s Brazil and we (...)
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  Albuquerque: Coming Back to the U.S.A.

  From the journal of my first year back in the United States after almost a quarter century in Latin America.
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  Risking a Somersault in the Air: Conversations with Nicaraguan Writers

  Interviews with Nicaraguan writers, many of whom were also high-level members of the Sandinista administration in power from 1979 to1990.
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  Christians in the Nicaraguan Revolution

  Liberation Theology, as it played itself out in the context of Nicaragua’s Sandinista Revolution. This book features two experiences: one in the base community of Santa Maria de los Angeles, in a working-class neighborhood of Managua; the other in Ernesto Cardenal’s community on an island in the archipelago of Solentiname, Great Lake of Nicaragua.
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  Doris Tijerino: Inside the Nicaraguan Revolution

  The life story of Doris Tijerino, one of the earliest women to participate in the Sandinista struggle to change Nicaragua.
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  Cuban Women Now

  My first book about Cuban Women: interviews with women from all areas of life, from those in leadership positions to young women, factory and farmworkers, ex-maids and prostitutes, and veterans of Cuba’s war of liberation.
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  Women in Cuba: Twenty Years Later

  Originally a series of lectures on Cuban women’s lives, delivered throughout the United States in 1978.

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