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A Take on …
The Right to Cultural Self-management - 25 October 2010 - by Jorge Eduardo Padula Perkins

Culture, in its many manifestations, plays a leading social, political, and economic role. How, then, can cultural hegemony be avoided? The author of this article argues that we should demand that cultural policy should above all provide people with tools that will allow them to generate and manage their own cultural expression. We are currently experiencing a social, political, legal, and (...)

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A Somewhat More Reasonable World - 5 October 2010 - by Pierre-Marie Guillon

The author of this contribution proposes nothing less than doing away with the French army, from which we can easily extrapolate the idea of doing away with all armies. A bit provocative, right? If you think that this is worth a mini debate, feel free to state your opinion on this article in the “alliance” forum! Men like peace. Pacifist movements should therefore attract crowds of people. (...)

Fair Trade: The Coffee Route from the Yungas to Brittany - 1 October 2010 - by Tugdual Ruellan

Many consumers, when seeing the prices for, for example, “fair-trade coffee,” are skeptical about the reality of “improved conditions for the producers” in this trade. Here, therefore, is a book, for the curious and the skeptics, that gives us a detailed experience of what fair trade actually amounts to. The adventure begins in 1993 when three Bretons rush, against all odds, into the fair-trade (...)

A Take on …
Social Platform Asks That Migrants Have Human Rights Respected - 30 September 2010 - by Natasha Pitts

Plataforma Social Migratoria Hermes asks that migrants be guaranteed security, equal opportunities, participation, and well-being. The 4th World Social Forum on Migration is approaching. The event, to be held from October 8 to 10 in Quito, the capital of Ecuador, motivated Plataforma Social Migratoria Hermes to publish its thinking and to place demands reflecting the need to treat the (...)

Somewhere on the Planet
US Social Forum Held in Detroit - 30 September 2010 - by Yvon Poirier

This past June 2010, the US Social Forum brought 15,000 activists into the country’s automotive-industry capital, in crisis. Yvon Poirier reports that although interesting, proposals for alternative models was not the major concern for most participants. Last June, about 15,000 activists gathered in Detroit for the second US Social Forum. This represented a 50% increase in participants (...)

Seeking Partners
Invitation to Join the World Parliament Experiment - 31 December 2009 -

In October 2003, the Alliance World Parliament Workgroup produced a few proposals at the end of a year-long international Internet-based debate. Less than four years later, a World Parliament Experiment was implemented in Norway, and since then, has pursued its development through face-to-face and online sessions, with several of these planned in 2010. Following is a message from the World (...)

Video Song
May the Children Sing - 29 December 2009 -

Guillem Ramis i Moneny, an Ally from Majorca since about ten years ago, suggested that we disseminate this song "that can be useful for peace." May the Children Sing, by José Luis Perales, 1992 May the children sing, may they raise their voice, may they make the world listen, may they bring their voices together and reach the sun, the truth is within them. May the children sing, who live (...)

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