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Muchos militantes se preguntan sobre los resultados políticos concretos de esos encuentros. Los movimientos sociales y ciudadanos, reunidos por primera vez en Porto Alegre en enero de 2001 para denunciar los estragos del neoliberalismo y exponer proposiciones alternativas, lograron gran (…)

Si le sommet de Copenhague s’est achevé sur un échec politique, l’exceptionnelle mobilisation de centaines d’ONG, dont Oxfam France - Agir ici, et de millions de citoyens permet de garder espoir en vue d’un accord prochain. Beaucoup de temps a été perdu, mais des avancées sont envisageables en (…)

A few weeks ago Bruce Levine wrote a provocative article titled "Are Americans a Broken People? Why We’ve Stopped Fighting Back Against the Forces of Oppression." Levine suggested that many progressives and much of the general population may be so broken by the system that they’ve given up hope (…)

One year after the devastating attack on Hamas in Gaza a new wave of reports castigating Israel for war crimes has emerged.
Now, Israel is fighting back with a report on the reports, picking on international NGOs such as Amnesty, Christian Aid, Oxfam, Trocaire , Finn Church Aid, Diakonia and (…)

The Kurdish Democratic Society Party (DTP) was shut down by the Constitutional Court of Turkey, unanimously, sparking mass protests. Raphael Tsavkko Garcia takes a closer look at Kurdish blogs for reactions. Read more

En Brasil se encuentra una experiencia de periódico semanal de ámbito nacional que merece que le prestemos atención. Se trata del diario Brasil de Fato, editado y de propiedad de los movimientos sociales. Entre ellos, organizaciones como Vía Campesina, Consulta Popular, pastorales sociales (…)

Panorama critique des mouvements sociaux dans le monde arabe
Deux clichés sont d’emblée discutés par cet Etat des résistances dans le monde arabe. D’abord, celui du « vide d’acteurs » civils et sociaux qui caractériserait les sociétés non démocratiques. L’autoritarisme, le militarisme ou les (…)

Technology transfer is one of the four key topics being discussed under negotiations on Long-Term Cooperative Actions in Copenhagen (the others are mitigation, adaptation and financing). The inter-governmental negotiating text that is under discussion contemplates various measures for (…)

This publication aims to contribute to a more sophisticated understanding of the emerging climate justice movement and to create resonances between different perspectives and spheres of engagement. The activities around the COP 15 in Copenhagen are a starting point in the creation of such a (…)

Today’s food is well travelled. A pack of green beans in a Northern supermarket may have journeyed 6000 miles, or 60. But while food miles loom large in our carbon-aware times, transporting it counts for less than you might think. And there is a far bigger picture. Food is more than a plateful (…)

What we really need is a new women’s health movement, one that’s sharp and skeptical enough to ask all the hard questions: What are the environmental (or possibly life-style) causes of the breast cancer epidemic? Why are existing treatments like chemotherapy so toxic and heavy-handed? And, if (…)

Next month, at the climate change summit in Copenhagen, the wealthy nations that produce most of the excess carbon in our atmosphere will almost certainly fail to embrace measures adequate to ward off the devastation of our planet by heat and chaotic weather. Their leaders will probably promise (…)

Gus Massiah explore ici les liens entre la solidarité internationale et l’écologie, à travers l’histoire de la convergence entre les mouvements écologiques et les mouvements de solidarité internationale, qu’il relie aux enjeux de la Conférence de Copenhague sur le changement climatique. par (…)

Financial wizards, economists, business persons and social activists around the globe have been challenging the free market orthodoxy. They seek to recover the virtues of bazaars from the tyranny of a market model that emerged about two centuries ago. This book is a chronicle of their (…)

Un grupo de organizaciones presentó el 29 de septiembre su propuesta de ley ante la Comisión Ocasional formada por once asambleístas que tienen bajo su responsabilidad la elaboración del Proyecto de Ley de Comunicación que se pondría a consideración del Pleno de la Asamblea Nacional.
Esta (…)

Since the Revolution in 1979, Iranians have coped with an increasingly repressive regime. Attempts for greater social and political freedoms have resulted in brutal crackdowns by the hardline government. The ensuing apathy and significant boycott of the 2005 presidential elections led to the (…)

A massive rally in Chicago next week aims to express public displeasure with the massive bank bailout outside the American Bank Association annual meeting. Protesters will converge at 11:30 on Monday, October 26, at 301 North Water Street, where the meeting is taking place.
"The same financial (…)

El proceso de las Conferencias de las NNUU sobre Cambio Climático y los informes proporcionados por el Panel Intergubernamental sobre Cambio Climático (IPCC por sus siglas en ingles) han puesto en evidencia que los impactos que han causando las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en el (…)

Depuis les années 1990, de nombreuses voix annoncent l’émergence d’une « société civile mondiale ». Qu’en est-il réellement ? C’est la question posée dans ce livre, qui propose un choix de textes récents traduits en français extraits du Global Civil Society Yearbook, périodique de référence dans (…)

The current global food crisis — decades in the making — is a crushing indictment against capitalist agriculture and the corporate monopolies that dominate the world’s food systems. The role of the industrial agrifood complex in creating the crisis (through the monopolization of input (…)