Issue 268: November/December 2006

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features

• In Vieques, Puerto Rico, La Lucha Continua

  Liv Gold

  Residents fight for environmental justice after the U.S. Navy�s departure.

• America�s Fringe Economy

  Howard Karger

  Financial services for the poor and credit-challenged are big business.

• Turning Gas into Development in Bolivia

  Aaron Luoma and Gretchen Gordon

  Will Evo Morales' attempt at re-nationalization bring real change?

the regulars

• the short run
• active culture Organizing Rural Labor in Colombia
• commentMicrocredit and Women's Poverty
• in review Big Coal/An Inconvenient Truth/Lost Mountain
• economy in numbersHealth Savings Accounts