The contributors ask the following questions:• What are the different rhetorical strategies employed by writers, artists, filmmakers, and activists to react to the degradation of life and climate change?• How are urban movements using environmental issues to resist corporate privatization of the commons?• What is the shape of Spanish debates on reproductive rights and biotechnology?• What is the symbolic significance of the bullfighting debate and other human/animal issues in today's political turmoil in Spain?Hispanic Issues SeriesNicholas Spadaccini, Editor-in-ChiefHispanic Issues Onlinehispanicissues.umn.edu/online_main.html