Showing posts with label civil-society. Show all posts
Showing posts with label civil-society. Show all posts
31 March 2012
28 March 2012
“REDD is just a project that the industrial countries use to try to keep their economic benefits”
Interview with Tejo Pramono, La Via Campesina and Elisha Kartini,Serikat Petani Indonesia (SPI – Indonesian Farmers Union) at SPI’s office, Jakarta, February 2012
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 27th March 2012
24 March 2012
Reclaiming 'common sense': new pamphlet is a rallying cry to the 99%
Today marks the launch of OurKingdom’s version of ‘Common Sense’, a new ebook by Dan Hind about the Occupy movement and deliberative politics. We are publishing the pamphlet in partnership with Myriad Editions and the New Left Project ↑ , who have brought out their own editions. Below, Guy Aitchison talks to Dan Hind about direct democracy and new modes of resistance
Guy Aitchison | OpenDemocracy | 21 March 2012
21 March 2012
Capitalism: A Ghost Story
Rockefeller to Mandela, Vedanta to Anna Hazare.... How long can the cardinals of corporate gospel buy up our protests?
Arundhati Roy | Outlook India.com | 26 March 2012
Antilla the Hun Mukesh Ambani’s 27-storey home on Altamont Road. Its bright lights, say the neighbours, have stolen the night. CORBIS (FROM OUTLOOK, MARCH 26, 2012)
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28 February 2012
After the Durban climate talks: State and market climate failures amplified by civil society failure
In 2007, former World Bank chief economist Nick Stern termed climate change the worst "market failure" in history – since those who pollute with greenhouse gases are not charged, and since they threaten future generations and vast swathes of natural life – and at that moment, even the 1991 ravings of another former World Bank chief economist, Larry Summers, made sense
By Patrick Bond | Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal | February 28, 2012
Durban, December 3, 2011. Photo by Anne Petermann/GJEP-GFC.
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02 February 2012
What the Occupy movement must learn from Sundance
These great documentary films have a simple lesson: effective political protest needs good organisation and smart messaging
Naomi Wolf | guardian.co.uk | 31 January 2012
Trailer for Half Revolution, a documentary film about the protests in Egypt, by Omar Shargawi and Karim el-Hakim. Video: YouTube
23 January 2012
Corporate Rule Is Not Inevitable
7 signs the corporatocracy is losing its legitimacy ... and 7 populist tools to help shut it down
by Sarah van Gelder | YES! Magazine | Jan 20, 2012
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A parody of corporate personhood in D.C.
21 January 2012
Why now? What’s next? Naomi Klein on Occupy
Naomi Klein in discussion with Occupy Wall Street activist Yotam Marom
Naomi Klein, Yotam Marom | Red Pepper | January 2012
From Davos to Dystopia
Not long ago the World Economic Forum (WEF) found itself in the sights of the global economic justice movement. At the turn of the last century, before anyone was “occupying” public spaces in protest at the growing inequalities between the top strata of society and the rest, a broad global coalition of environment, development, and peace activists were targeting the public meetings of major institutions such as the WTO, the IMF, and the G8
By Ben Zala | Foreign Policy in Focus | January 19, 2012
World Economic Forum in Davos
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06 January 2012
The climate change message is not being heard. Here's how to change tack
Focus on the economic case, drop the activist-speak, talk about solutions rather than doom – and don't rely on politicians
Sunny Hundal | guardian.co.uk | 5 January 2012
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Preaching to the converted? A climate march in London, December 2010. Photograph: Luke Macgregor/Reuters
04 January 2012
Thirty ideas from people under 30: Artisans
The Monitor interviewed young explorers and activists, artists and educators, farmers and faith leaders – even a mayor. And they have trenchant suggestions on how to improve the world. We'll serve this smorgasbord in bite-size servings of 3 to 7 profiles per day. Today's lineup includes a world-class jazz cellist, a novelist, and a chef. Dig in!
Monitor staff and correspondents | The Christian Science Monitor | Jan 4, 2012
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31 December 2011
How the 'Year of the Protester' played out in Europe
The protests in the Middle East and United States may have garnered more attention, but 2011 was just as much a year of awakening in southern Europe, where young people are worried their future
By Robert Marquand | Christian Science Monitor | December 30, 2011
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A Spanish protester in a Guy Fawkes mask demonstrates against banks and politicians in Madrid. The text on the dollar bill translates as "I won't be silenced." Susana Vera/Reuters
27 December 2011
Indonesia: Nationwide Protests Decry Mistreatment of Civilians
Protesters in cities across the country on Monday continued to voice their outrage over police violence in the recent Sape incident
Dwi Lusiana, Rahmat, Fitri & Antara | The Jakarta Globe | December 27, 2011
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Protesters march in front of Police Headquarters in Jakarta on Monday. They criticized the police’s shooting of and killing villagers who were rallying in Bima against a gold mining company. The protestors urged the president to remove Chief Police Timur Pradopo. (JG Photo/Safir Makki)
25 December 2011
Mothers Rise Against Nuclear Power
Japan’s nuclear power industry, which once ignored opposition, now finds its existence threatened by women angered by official opaqueness on radiation from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant after it was struck by an earthquake- driven tsunami on Mar. 11
By Suvendrini Kakuchi | Inter-Press Service | Dec 22, 2011
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Food security and the WTO
At a World Social Forum event in 2006, Walden Bello warned that the Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) was careening down a track to disaster. Civil society needed to insist that negotiators pull back before the Round went off a cliff, the founder of Focus on the Global South said
By Karen Hansen-Kuhn | Foreign Policy in Focus | December 21, 2011
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How to Occupy the World
The leading tagline of the Occupy Wall Street movement reads: “Protest for World Revolution.” This is an ambitious claim, to be sure. And in most respects it seems to ring quite true: the movement has successfully taken root not only in cities and towns throughout the United States but also in major urban centers around the world. On October 15, Occupy Wall Street’s success inspired a broad wave of coordinated occupations across Europe. I was a founding participant in the one that began in London
by Jason Hickel | Dec 21 2011 by Common Dreams in Energy Bulletin | Dec 21, 2011
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20 December 2011
Occupy: A turning point in US politics?
Few foresaw 17 September 2011 as an auspicious date. Only readers of Adbusters magazine, networks of mostly East Coast activists and Anonymous hackers knew what was planned for the day. And the NYPD, of course. But even as a thousand people descended on Wall Street, protesting the corporate stranglehold on US politics, no one predicted that ‘Occupy’ would become the buzzword of 2011
Siobhan McGuirk | Red Pepper | December 2011
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Photo: Elvert Barnes (Flickr)
Goa’s activists show they can bite
Faced with an adversary that has substantial resources, activists are using research more than ever before
Ruchira Singh | LiveMint | Dec 19 2011
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The Endless Algebra of Climate Markets
“The Endless Algebra of Climate Markets”, is the title of a recent paper by Larry Lohmann of the UK-based NGO the Corner House. That’s him on the left holding up an “I love emissions trading”, T-shirt that Fortis Bank (now part of BNP Paribas) was handing out at a UN climate conference
By Chris Lang | REDD-Monitor | 16th December 2011
15 December 2011
Corruption undermining land access, development
FAO and Transparency International release working paper, call for improved governance
FAO Media Center | 12 December 2011
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Secure access to land fosters sustainable development.
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