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Year 2008

One of the WSF 2008 Actions: A Mega Play in São Paulo, Brazil - 20 January 2008 - by Isis de Palma

In São Paulo, Brazil, the fight for social transformation will take to the streets on the Global Day for Action, January 26, with a huge play staged in the city center. On the menu: creativity and good mood spiced with dream and hope. Hundreds of cultural actors, militants of social and people’s movements will convert the center of São Paulo into a stage. Starting at noon, four "clans" will (...)

World Social Forum 2008: A Global Call for Action - 21 January 2008 -

It’s January! If you’re wondering whether the World Social Forum (WSF) is happening in 2008, and if so, where, then stop looking: the answer is here and now. Since January 2001, the World Social Forum has been Brazilian (several times, in Porto Alegre), Indian (once, in Mumbai), polycentric (Caracas, Bamako, and Karachi) and has gathered hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world (...)

Desirable News: Argentina Approves a New Education Project to Transform Society - 23 February 2008 - by Nova, Centre per a la Innovació Social (NOVACIS)

With this reform, the Argentinean society sends a message all over the world: education is a crucial factor for establishing the bases of another globalization which is more democratic and shows greater solidarity.

Proposal for an Intergenerational Partnership on Sustainable Development Education - 6 April 2008 - by John Anugraha

As the concept of sustainable development grows in importance, the need to move environmental education towards the broader concept of sustainable-development education is increasingly manifest. John Anugraha informs us on the need to involve the younger and the older generations in a movement in this direction and informs us of a workshop on this issue, as well as of a proposal to rejuvenate (...)

Forum for a new World Governance - 27 May 2008 - by Gustavo Marin, Marina Urquidi

Each passing day increases the feeling dramatically that a system of world governance is vitally needed, which respects all human beings, all that is living, and the planet as a whole. This has to happen before the application of the free-market myth (some call it “the free fox in the free chicken coop”) ends up destroying any perspective for the survival of our world… including the human (...)

Speaking for Ourselves! - 28 June 2008 - by Caroline Mackenzie

A huge project, a meeting place for migrants from all the continents, an information and resource center, a hub to make joint projects grow: that is precisely what Empowerment & Migration is all about. Project coordinator, Caroline Mackenzie, suggests we look into it, whether or not we are migrants. The latest editorial published on this Web site made me want to tell you about our (...)

Desirable News: Opening session of an innovative World Parliament - 22 July 2008 - by Nova, Centre per a la Innovació Social (NOVACIS)

Representatives from regional communities and social and professional groups from all over the world become spokespeople for a new style of governance, one more suited to meeting the challenges of the 21st century.

Desirable News: Citizens retrieve their cities - 23 July 2008 - by Nova, Centre per a la Innovació Social (NOVACIS)

Twenty years after the first participative proposals of Porto Alegre (Brazil), today more than 1000 cities throughout the five continents, (cities as different as Xalapa (Mexico), Cuenca (Ecuador), Windhoek (Namibia), Dakar (Senegal), Quebec (Canada) or Rubí (Catalonia), are developing more human city models, created by their own (...)

{Allies Speaking}: From the Alliance to Cooperativism, the Democratization of Democracy, and Research on the Role of Women - 2 September 2008 - by José Hipólito dos Santos

A truly early Ally— ever since 1993— José Hipólito dos Santos has sent us a few of his thoughts from Oeiras, Portugal and tells us a little about the paths he has taken since that time. It is with pleasure that I received your letter-editorial of 26.1.08. It has been a long time since I had the opportunity to contact you. I remain very attached to the Alliance Charter, which constitutes an (...)

Women Building Alternatives - 8 September 2008 - by Minga Informativa de Movimientos Sociales

More than 500 women from all over Brazil met at the national meeting of women for food and energy sovereignty in Belo Horizonte from August 28 to 31. Women of all different cultures, ages, civil statuses, labor conditions, education, from the country and the cities came to share their knowledge and also their concerns in view of the changes being imposed by the capitalist system to continue (...)

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