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[ DOSSIER ] November 2008
Traversées: Crossing Paths for a New World
Did you ever wish you could just travel around the world, meet people face-to-face, interact with them, learn from them, build alliances and work with them? François Soulard and William Leroy did just that. After designing their plan and its concept, setting up their organization Traversées, and getting the necessary funds to make it real, they started out in 2004 for a two-year journey. For the present Dossier, they have offered us an overview of what they had planned and how it actually happened. Four years and many changes later, the trip is not over. As they explain, it was the road itself that set their goals and destinations. One of their stops, in Argentina, put them in the midst of the Citizen Assembly movement and brought them into contact with the teachers’ union CTERA, in whose work they became involved. François is still there as we write, and Traversées’s final contribution to this Dossier, sent in this past July 2008, focuses on CTERA’s work and explains how Traversées is helping to apply Alliance 21-FPH methodology to help humankind into a new era. This Dossier offers a tiny window into what has been a vast and complex reality under the guiding principles we have developed collectively over the years, so don’t stop here: the Traversées Web site is a treasure of the world’s infinite variety enclosed in a single planet with deeply common aspirations to live in harmony, all of that in photos, videos, and words. Don’t miss this illustration of how it all makes sense!
From Dreams to Reality, or How a Project Adapts to Life As It Plays out
by Traversées Traversées Paint Brushes: Portraits of a Journey
by Traversées On the Road to a Citizens Assembly
by Traversées A Sustainable World and Environmental Education with CTERA
by Traversées Fifteen Years of Continuous In-depth Work by the Union School Marina Vilte
by Traversées One Last Word, for Now ...
by Traversées [ Alliance of Journalists ]
5 février 2009
Socially Responsible Meetings in the Drôme (French département)
[ From interesting Web sites ]
10 June 2009
by Vicent Boix
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1 April 2009
by John Samuel
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[ EDITORIAL ] April 2009Our Common Wealth by Marina UrquidiWelcome once again to the Alliance 21 Home Page! Consider this as your place to come to, and to go from. A place to be made up of your contributions and provide you in turn with a rich overview of news from the scores of Web sites connected to it. A star in the constellation of connected movements. This Web site is designed to provide a huge wealth of contacts and news The Home Page displays the two latest Alliance 21 articles, a series of upcoming events in the right-hand column—such as the ambitious three-month march around the world for peace, which is to begin next October in New Zealand—and on the left, what is to be the very last Alliance 21 dossier. Starting this next summer 2009, this type of dossier will be offered in a new gateway for "citizen initiatives." More on this new portal soon. When it is up, this, your own Web site, will be concentrating on three features: What’s New?, Workgroups, and Interesting Web Sites. What’s New? Is the 2009 World Social Forum still news? Our unqualified answer is "yes"! The World Social Forum (WSF) is not just a yearly January gathering. It is an event that marks an ongoing process, an opportunity for citizens from around the world to meet, and to fine tune their ideas and action plans for their improved implementation. It is given very little mainstream media attention, so we are adding our contribution to the widespread Internet effort to report on it. This year, we are fortunate to have a vivid, first-hand account of the WSF and have posted two key WSF declarations, one on finance—which as a result of WSF debates, presents a series of proposals/demands to make the global financial system work for our common interest—and the other on climate justice—which sets out plans through to December 2009. What’s New? is also, and above all, your own news! This Web site has an average of 800 visits a day, and had 130,067 distinct visitors in the past year from every country in the world except Surinam, Western Sahara, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, Nepal, Burma, and North Korea. Seriously! And these are your potential readers! Read here to find out what kind of articles you can contribute. For this update, for instance, Camilla Burg, from the relatively new WiserEarth project, has a proposal for future synergies among movements in general, and with the Alliance in particular. … and finally, Desirable News Desirable News was designed in 2003 to imagine the implementation of the Alliance Proposal Papers, and to keep our eyes on the horizon as we go. Each article is set in a pastiche of an existing printed-news media. Although most of this news may still seem out of immediate reach, progress has actually been made in some of these areas since 2003. For instance, "The Caravan of Art ends its world tour in Brazil," desirable news published in June 2007, has found its realization, among others, in the traveling art show of the Charter of Human Responsibilities workgroup, a show that began its world tour in 2007 and is still on the road. Other areas are lagging dangerously behind these eminently desirable goals, but where there’s desire, there’s a will, and where there’s a will, there’s a way. Alliance Workgroups and Interesting Web Sites Here is where you have access to a concentrate of numerous, relevant, current news, from where you can jump into your particular field of interest or action, and see it as part of a chorus of related fields. The Home Page randomly displays a recent article from a workgroup, and you will find much more workgroup-related news in the right-hand column of the corresponding section and its subsections. It also has a recent article randomly selected from one of the 143 Interesting Web Sites that have an RSS feed and are reported on the Alliance Web site, and 60 more of these at the bottom of the corresponding section. Workgroups and Interesting Web Sites will be the subject of our next editorial. Meanwhile, enjoy our common wealth… and don’t forget to write! | |
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Provisional World Parliament to Hold 11th Session in India
 The World Constitution and Parliament Association (WCPA) calls all world citizens and persons concerned about the future of humanity to register for the 11th session of the Provisional World Parliament, which it has arranged in conjunction with International Philosophers for Peace (IPPNO). It will be held in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in the beautiful Himalayas, north of Delhi, India, from July 1 to 7, 2009. Observers to the parliament and Delegates are welcome and both may participate actively in the proceedings. Further information here.
Fair Economy in Venezuela
 From August 24 to 28, 2009 in Venezuela, the International Meeting of Quíbor: A Fair Economy for Sustainable Rural Land has planned 3 conferences, 4 “workshop visits,” 12 lectures and 30 testimonies… yours! Five days, too, to “develop 30 proposals convey to the world.” For further information on this meeting coordinated by Agir pour une économie équitable, go to the Web site of the international meeting of Quíbor.
Workshop on Wind Power
 The International Workshop on Large-Scale Integration of Wind Power into Power Systems as well as on Transmission Networks for Offshore Wind Farms comes to the maritime city of Bremen, Germany. This 8th edition will be held on October 14-15, 2009. For further information, go to the Windpower Workshop Web site.
International Day of Climate Action on October 24
 Global warming is happening faster than ever and humans are responsible. 350 PPM (parts per million) is the number that leading scientists say is the safe upper limit for carbon dioxide in our atmosphere. We are currently at 388.79 PPM, but it’s not too late to turn back and avoid runaway climate change. 350.org has launched a worldwide grassroots-action campaign due to take place on October 24, 2009 in your own community. Check it out and join!
A Three-month World March to End Wars
 A World March for Peace and Nonviolence will begin in New Zealand on October 2, 2009, the anniversary of Gandhi’s birth and end in Punta de Vacas, Argentina on January 2, 2010. Supported by many distinguished persons (including the Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Eduardo Galeano and scores more) and movements, the march will cover all the world’s continents. One hundred persons of different nationalities will be the permanent core of this 160,000-kilometer journey intended to rally, along the way, all those crying out to end war and violence. To participate or for further information, please go to the World March for Peace and Nonviolence Web site.
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