ABOUT THE BOOK:

Weapons, Drugs, and Money is a creative non- fiction political economy and geopolitics textbook, which was written in such a way, so as to be as accessible to academics as it is to non academic community organizers. The purposes of the book are to first: take an in-depth historical and contemporary look at crime and corruption in the US/Mexico military political economy, second: to demystify our understanding of neoliberalism, and third: to look at some specific examples of grass roots liberation in Mexico through community based self determination, self defense, and autonomy.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Simón Sedillo is a community rights defense organizer, filmmaker, educator, artist, and author. For the last 15 years, Sedillo has been teaching geopolitics and political economy. Sedillo has contributed to the production of a wide variety of documentary films and investigative articles, which focus primarily on the effects of the neoliberal military political economy on indigenous communities, immigrant communities, and communities of color in the US and Mexico. Sedillo ́s work more importantly focuses how social movements, particularly in Indigenous communities in Mexico, are organizing and resisting neoliberalism.