Beverly Bell
Beverly Bell has worked for more than three decades as an advocate, organizer and writer in collaboration with social movements in Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the US. Her focus areas are just economies, democratic participation and gender justice. Beverly currently serves as associate fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies and coordinator of Other Worlds. She is author of "Walking on Fire: Haitian Women's Stories of Survival and Resistance" and of "Fault Lines: Views Across Haiti's Divide." She is also a member of Truthout's Board of Advisers.
Other articles by this author
Berta Cáceres Lives On, and So Does Violence by Honduran Government and Dam Company
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
Berta Cáceres: "To Fight Against Repression in Honduras Is to Fight for Our Whole Continent"
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Gustavo Castro Soto and the Rigged Investigation Into Berta Cáceres' Assassination
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | News Analysis
Why Was Berta Cáceres Assassinated?
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | News Analysis
Berta Lives! The Life and Legacy of Berta Cáceres
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
Women Farmers and Land Grabs in Haiti: An Interview With Iderle Brénus
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Haiti's Fraudulent Presidential Front-Runner Seizes Land for His Own Banana Republic
By Joshua Steckley and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
The Blood of the Earth: Agriculture, Land Rights and Haitian History
By Ricot Jean-Pierre and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | News Analysis
African Women Organize to Reclaim Agriculture Against Corporate Takeover
By Mphatheleini Makaulele, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
"The Struggle for Land Justice Knows No Borders": Corporate Pillaging in Haiti
By Natalie Miller and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
We Are the Solution: African Women Organize for Land and Seed Sovereignty
By Simone Adler and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
The Legacy and Current Growth of Black Cooperatives
By Beverly Bell and Natalie Miller, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
Fighting Racism From the USDA, Black Farmers Gain Power Through Co-ops
By Andrianna Natsoulas and Beverly Bell, Truthout | Op-Ed
Agroecology as a Tool for Liberation: Transforming Industrial Agriculture in El Salvador
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Time Banks: A Tool for Restorative Justice and Community Strength
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Power to the People, but Really: Participatory Democracy in El Salvador
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
The Attack on Human Rights in Haiti: An Interview With Jackson Doliscar, Part II
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
In Haiti, the State and International Community Continue to Trounce Human Rights
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | News Analysis
An Interview With Social Movement Leader and Parliamentarian Estela Hernandez
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Another Black Boy Gunned Down by Police
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
On International Human Rights Day, the Fight for Indigenous Land and Autonomy in Honduras
By Stephen Bartlett and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Gendering Peasant Movements, Gendering Food Sovereignty
By Deepa Panchang and Beverly Bell, OtherWorlds | Interview
On World Day of Food, Struggling for Land in Brazil
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Raising Hope Across the Borders: Transnational Social Movements and Power
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Social Movements and Power: Change From Below in the Dominican Republic
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Gender Equity for Rural Haitian Women: An Interview With Kettly Alexandre of the Peasant Movement of Papay
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
One Year of Resistance in Rio Blanco
By Beverly Bell, Foreign Policy in Focus | Report
Defending Indigenous Lands and Waters in Honduras: The Case of Rio Blanco
By Beverly Bell and Tory Field, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
The Ancestral Values We Inherited: Protecting Indigenous Water, Land and Culture in Mexico
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
"They Fear Us Because We Are Fearless": Reclaiming Indigenous Lands and Strength in Honduras
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Without Our Land, We Cease to Be a People: Defending Indigenous Territory and Resources in Honduras
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
We Don't Have Life Without Land: Holding Ground in Honduras
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Land to the Tillers: Responses to Land Grabs
By Beverly Bell and Tory Field, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
Food for Body, Food for Thought, Food for Justice: People's Grocery in Oakland, California
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Food Justice: Connecting Farm to Community
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
"The Revolution Is Going to Be Fought With the Hoe": Agriculture and Environment in New Mexico
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Meet Up, Eat Up, Act Up: Consumers Join the Movement for Food Workers' Rights
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
"The Awakening That's Happening": Local, Sustainable Food
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Putting the Culture Back in Agriculture: Reviving Native Food and Farming Traditions
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Jobs and Justice: Raising the Floor on Workers Rights and Wages in Haiti
By Beverly Bell, Daily Kos | Op-Ed
Bringing the Food Home: Local Food and Agricultural Systems
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
From Field to Table: Rights for Workers in the Food Supply Chain
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
A Penny a Pound, Plus Power: The Coalition of Immokalee Workers Changes History
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Haitian Sweatshop Workers Speak: Sub-Poverty Wages and Sexual Coercion
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
"Mrs. Clinton Can Have Her Factories": A Haitian Sweatshop Worker Speaks
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
We Have a Dream: Farmworkers Organize for Justice
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
A Hard Day's Labor for $4.76: The Offshore Assembly Industry in Haiti
By Beverly Bell and Alexis Erkert, Other Worlds | Report
Weeding Corporate Power Out of Agricultural Policies: Communities Mobilize for Food and Farm Justice
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Seeds of Change: Shifting National Agricultural Policies
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Harvesting Justice Series
Small Farms Fight Back: Food and Community Self-Governance
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Farmers and Consumers vs. Monsanto: David Meets Goliath
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other World | Report
Another Poor Black Boy Dead in Haiti
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
From Growing Profit to Growing Food: Challenging Corporate Rule
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | News Analysis
Chavez' Legacy: An Interview With Camille Chalmers
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
The True Costs of Industrialized Food
By Beverly Bell and Tory Field, Other Worlds | Report
"The Consumer's Got to Change the System": Farmer Ben Burkett on Racism and Corporate Control of Agriculture
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Uprooting Racism in the Food System: African Americans Organize
By Deepa Panchang, Beverly Bell and Tory Field, Other Worlds | News Analysis
Sister Simone: A Eulogy for a Haitian Heroine
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
A Tale of Two NGOs: in Haiti, Disaster Aid or Aid Disaster?
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Book Review
Women's Work: Gender and the Global Food System
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Food and Land at the Service of People: an Interview With Peter Rosset
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Food Sovereignty: Think Globally, Eat Locally
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Harvesting Justice: Transforming the Global Food Supply Chain - Food Sovereignty
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Expanding the Realm of the Possible in 2012
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
The Day After the Elections In Woody Guthrie's Country
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds Are Possible | News Analysis
You Can't Ever Stop Being Vigilant: The Role of Alternative Media in Protecting Democracy
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Interview
Disaster Capitalism in New Orleans and Haiti
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | News Analysis
Not On Our Land: Land Recovery Kicks Off in Honduras
By Carla Garcia, Lauren Elliott and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
When a Woman Goes Out to Struggle: Solutions to Gender and Economic Violence
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
And You, What are You Waiting For?: A World Without Slavery
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
Not Wasting the Waste: Creating Environmental Sustainability
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Globalization Head-On: Women Confronting Poverty
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
This Land Is My Teacher: Preserving Native Agriculture and Traditions
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Coming Together for Environmental Restoration in Haiti
By Beverly Bell and Alexis Erkert, Other Worlds | Interview
One System for All: Universal Access to Health Care
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Water Is Where Everything Intersects - Water in the Global Commons
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
We Have Everything We Need Already: Community Control of Education
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Our Hope Is in Our Struggle: Reclaiming Land and Life in Honduras
By Lauren Elliott and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
The Link to Humanity - Gift Economies
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Rewriting the Rules of the Global Economy - Creating Economics That Improve People's Lives
By Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Without Firing an Arm, We Created a Revolution: Land Reform
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Women in Peace-Building: Peace Amidst War for Resource Control
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | \"Birthing Justice\" Series
Disaster Capitalism: Profiting From Crisis in Post-Earthquake Haiti
By Deepa Panchang, Tory Field and Beverly Bell, Other Worlds Are Possible | News Analysis
"Until the Day I Die": Gerta Louisama on Haitian Women Winning Their Rights
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed
Haitians Challenge Monsanto's Influence
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Haitian Mayor's Office Vows to Destroy All Refugee Camps, Launches Violent Campaign
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Report
Haiti: Just When You Think It Can't Get Worse
By Beverly Bell, Other Worlds | Op-Ed