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"Shantytown Protest is one of the richest and most interesting accounts of popular mobilizations in urban Latin America that I have ever seen. The description of popular resistance under conditions of extreme material scarcity and ruthless military repression is fascinating. The book is a major contribution to the research literatures on Third World urbanization and Latin America politics." â€"Alejandro Portes, John Dewey Professor of Sociology and International Relations, The Johns Hopkins UniversityIn 1973 armed forces launched a violent attack against the Chilean presidential palace

This article examines three decades of Puerto Rican social movement organizing in three New York City neighborhoods. It begins with a look at Puerto Rican nationalist movements in the late sixties and early seventies, moves to the housing movements in the mid-seventies to early eighties and concludes with the AIDS activist movements from the mid-eighties through the nineties. It argues that mobilizing frames and trajectories of these neighborhood movements were determined by differences in the local political opportunity structure, in particular (1) the distribution of political power among competing ethnic groups, (2) the opportunity to form political coalitions, and (3) the divergent trajectories and frames of previous movements. These different frames shaped the way organizers responded to new issues, influencing in particular activists' selection of targets, alliance partners, tactics, and discourse.

Ethnographic data are drawn on to examine Puerto Rican social movement organizing in three New York City neighborhoods, 1960s-1990s, including nationalist housing, & acquired immune deficiency syndrome activist movements. It is argued that mobilizing frames & trajectories of these neighborhood movements were determined by differences in the local political opportunity structure, particularly by the (1) distribution of political power among competing ethnic groups, (2) opportunity to form political coalitions, & (3) divergent trajectories & frames of previous movements. These frames shaped the way organizers responded to new issues & influenced activists' selection of targets, alliance partners, tactics, & discourse. 3 Tables, 70 References. Adapted from the source document.

The author examines the background of the protest movement between 1983 and 1986 in Santiago's slums, shantytowns and poor neighbourhoods. She reports on a series of interviews, conducted in the poblaciones La Pincoya, La Hormida, Sara Gajardo, Herminda de la Victoria and Yungay, and points out that the only poblaciones that were highly mobilized in 1986 were those which had originally been created by the Chilean Communist Party

Main description: Cathy Lisa Schneider looks at the relationship between racialized police violence and urban upheaval in impoverished neighborhoods of New York and greater Paris, and considers some of the changes that have made American cities less riot-prone today.

"A study of local-level social and political organizations during the early years of military rule and of the protest between 1983-86. The author points to the presence (or absence) of a strong Communist party nucleus and a historical tradition (pre-1973) of political involvement, not levels of poverty or unemployment, as factors determining the extent of politicization and involvement. She offers more detailed portraits of activists and organizations than Oxhorn, but less coverage of their relations with political parties, and of developments beyond 1986"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.