Long Honduran Night

Dana Frank is a professor of history at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Buy American: The Untold Story of Economic Nationalism (Beacon, 1999); Purchasing Power: Consumer Organizing, Gender, and the Seattle Labor Movement, 1919-1929 (Cambridge, 1994); Local Girl Makes History: Exploring Northern California's Kitsch Monuments (City Lights, 2007), Bananeras: Women Transforming the Banana Unions of Latin America (Haymarket, 2016), and, with Howard Zinn and Robin D.G. Kelley, Three Strikes: Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century (Beacon, 2001).Her contribution to Three Strikes has been reprinted, with a new introduction, by Haymarket Books as Women Strikers Occupy Chain Story, Win Big (2012). Frank worked for many years with the US Labor Education in the Americas Project (US/LEAP) in support of the banana unions in Latin America. Since the 2009 military coup her articles about human rights and U.S. policy in Honduras have appeared in The Nation, New York Times, Politico Magazine, Foreign Affairs.com, The Baffler, Los Angeles Times, Miami Herald, and many other publications, and she has testified in both the U.S. Congress and Canadian Parliament and been active in challenging US policy in Honduras

• IntroductionChapter One:Learning Curves: Resistance and Repression, 2009-2010Chapter Two:Locked Down: Campesinos, Police, and Prisoners, 2010-2011Chapter Three:Power in the North: Media, Solidarity, and the US Congress, 2012-2013Chapter Four:A Dictator Rises: Hernández and his US Friends, 2013-2014Chapter Five: Borderlands of Good and Evil: Immigrants and Indignados, 2014-2015Chapter Six:Boomerangs:Berta Cáceres and the View from the Backyard, 2016-2017AcknowledgementsSourcesIndex

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