Praise -- Title Page -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE - Bolivia's Dance with Evo Morales -- From the Streets to the Palace -- A Political Instrument -- Domesticating the Revolution -- Autonomous Alliances -- El Alto Changes -- Rhetoric and Action -- CHAPTER TWO - Ecuador: Indigenous Uprisings and Betrayals of the State -- Movement for Survival -- Divergences -- Weakening Dissent -- A War Continues -- CHAPTER THREE - Argentina: The Rebellion and the Ballot Box -- More Bullets than Ballots -- Growing Out of the Wreckage -- Occupying a New World -- A Lesser of Two Evils -- Dispersal -- CHAPTER FOUR - Turning Activists into Voters in Uruguay -- The Frente Amplio's Long Road -- Crisis and Opportunity -- History's Dividends -- "A wild cat that has turned into a vegetarian" -- CHAPTER FIVE - Venezuela: Uses of the Bolivarian Revolution -- Organizing Fury -- Bolivarian Tools and Spaces -- Power and the People -- Beyond Governance -- Blurring the Lines -- Appropriating the Revolution From Below -- CHAPTER SIX - Brazil: Lula and the Landless -- Strength in Numbers -- Lula and the Seizure of the Party by the State -- CHAPTER SEVEN - Paraguay: Surviving Under the Red Bishop -- The Oligarchy's New Face -- The Land Lugo Promised -- A Different Kind of Terrorism -- Resistance in a Sea of Soy -- "Without community organizing nothing works" -- CHAPTER EIGHT - South America and the United States: Finding Common Ground in Crisis -- Activating Democracy -- Chicago: Crisis and Action -- Water Without Borders -- Taking Back the Land -- An Unwritten Future -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- Index -- Support AK Press! -- Copyright Page.