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Social currency, together with other economy of solidarity forms, is creating an economic system that exists along side the hegemonic one
One of the main keywords in solidarity economy is “differently”: producing and trading differently, but also financing differently . . . and measuring the economy differently. By its side, CSRSME Asia has placed another keyword, “compassion.” This year’s Asian Forum in Manila will be looking at how these translate into action. Coalition of Socially Responsible Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (...)
What is dignity and how is it part of basic values, but also of our thinking on political, economic and… therapeutic projects for the world we have gathered together to build? A book with a few answers. La Dignité : Les debouts de l’utopie (Dignity, the stand-ups of Utopia) is the title chosen by Bernard Doray for his most recent book, and for him, dignity refers to the places of the psyche (...)
A project aimed at the younger generations, to take one more step along the way toward the future that we wish for ... For almost 30 years, part of the current team of Nova - Centro por la Innovación Social have been putting our chips on promoting socially innovating proposals, projects and models to facilitate the construction of alternatives to the current rules of the game for social, (...)
We have recently seen a television program on Chile’s national television channel, on the subject of immigration. In substance, it suggested that failing the approval of an “Immigration Law,” immigrants could bring about a explosion of social protest similar to those played out in France and other European countries these past few years. The traumatic images of the violence of those events and (...)
The Asian Forum for Solidarity Economy, scheduled in Manila from October 17 to 20 this year, will underscore the growing reality of an economic framework that is compatible with the survival of the human race and of the planet. It is the truly vibrant initiative of solidarity and cooperation taken by an increasing number of organizations seeking to place human beings and social relationships (...)
For socially just, economically efficient, politically plural and ecologically sustainable globalisation by the year 2040.
The earlier in life awareness begins to rise - on individual and collective responsibility, in particular - the more chances humankind will have to succeed in making the necessary transformations for its own survival in harmony with the survival of the planet! The Indian team of the Charter of Human Responsibilities facilitated an experience between young Filipinos and Indians, an example (...)
In an unprecedented event, about 400 migrants from almost every country in the three Americas, from Alaska to Tierra del Fuego (literally!), came together in the city of Morelia, in the Mexican state of Michoacán, to listen to one another, learn from each other, and look into the mirror of their different experiences. They were joined by nearly 200 representatives of migrant communities from (...)
In order to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century, new forms of citizen participation are developing. What is at stake is also the ability to consider the complexity of global problems using innovative approaches and methods of exchange, enhancement, analysis and popularization of information in order to reinforce citizen initiatives that contribute to building global democracy. In (...)
“LIKE myths, art helps us to understand the mystery of the world, but it also gives us intelligence, pleasure and joy”. Yesterday in Sao Paulo, these were the words that summarised the spirit with which the Caravan of Art has toured the continents for five years.
"Keep your promises or clear out!" As plain as day, this is the no-nonsense message Respolis sends to politicians who plan to represent us after having won a majority of our votes. In other words, no waiting till the next elections to sanction political responsibility. Sound like political fiction? Wrong! The campaign has begun to take roots in the real world. Germà Pelayo reports on this (...)
In the spirit of the Constituent Charter of the Alliance, and in line with the decisions consigned in the Charter, a new project is now born, offering citizen networks the tools and methods that will help to change the Alliance into in an alliance of alliances … When it launched the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of (...)
It is widely accepted that art speaks to the human soul directly, and the team of the Allied Workgroup for the Charter of Human Responsibilities has once again taken the art road to raising human awareness on its responsibility to the environment, with a traveling art show that will slowly, but surely, make its way around the world. A report from Yolanda Ziaka, from the Charter team. Our (...)
Consumers are starting to become aware of their power. Every day, more and more people actively opt for an ecologically prudent and socially just lifestyle, consequently exposing a model in which economy is focused on accumulation and unlimited consumption in the regulation-free market.
How do young people become aware of their responsibilities to the planet and to humankind, in other words, to their own future? How do they exercise those responsibilities? The Philippine Facilitation Team of the Charter of Human Responsibilities has a few answers to these important questions, and is applying the means to materializing them. A report by Pinky Cupino. Y Acts! Youth Festival (...)
The second China-Europa Forum was held last October in 23 European cities of 7 different countries. Pierre Calame, General Manager of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind (FPH) tells us here how the forum started out from the major findings of the World Citizens Assembly of Lille: the need to build a global community and no longer rely on state-to-state (...)
After September 11, 2001, the School of Peace coordinated, in the framework of the Alliance, an international and multilingual e-debate around the theme "Building Peace: Understanding First, So We Can Act". The debate lasted six months and involved more than 150 participants from 48 different countries, all ages and from all walks of life. The results of the debate are still completely (...)
Radical, global change is not only needed, it is the condition for the survival of the human race. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the climate issue, which itself involves just about every aspect of our lives on planet Earth: governance, socioeconomics, ethics, and our collective and individual responsibilities. Focus on the Global South, whose Web site is referred to by the Global (...)
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