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BIC's new handbook for advocacy on extractive industry revenues | Bank Information Center: Monitoring the projects and policies of the World Bank, IMF and other international financial institutions

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 10:53:36 -0000

The Handbook is intended as a tool for civil society organizations, journalists and other members of the public interested in learning more about transparency and fiscal management in the natural resource sectors. It distills and builds upon information contained in the IMF’s document, with a focus on areas especially pertinent for civil society groups seeking to better understand how extractive industry (EI) sectors are managed. The Handbook aims to help civil society groups hold governments and private companies accountable for the exploitation of natural resources in their country.[2]

In producing this Handbook, BIC is not endorsing the extractive industries or asserting that improved transparency, alone, would address the myriad social, environmental and economic impacts associated with natural resource exploitation. Rather, this document aims to provide citizens in resource-rich countries with one more tool to strengthen their efforts to hold industry actors and governments accountable.

Tags: extractive bic international finance development

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Fifth-Estate-Online - Conform or Reform? Social Movements and the Mass Media

Mon, 12 May 2008 11:02:31 -0000

Tags: social movements media violence fifthestateonline

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Global Cultural Flows

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:40:05 -0000

Funded by an SSHRC Research Development Initiative with additional support from Canadian Heritage, the aim of this project is to determine the role of global cultural flows in the formation of identity in 21st century Canada. The concept of “global cultural flows” refers to intense international movements of people, cultures and commodities that have restructured the means by which individuals establish personal and collective identities.

Tags: culture identity social movements globalization

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The Power of Story in Social Movements

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:38:47 -0000

In this paper I explore the influence of story telling in the launching of the farm worker movement led by Cesar Chavez over the course of a four-year period from the spring 1962 to the spring of 1966. In
particular I address the influence of story at three moments of choice, identity formation, and action: forming a leadership core, launching an organization, and launching a movement

Tags: social movements theory united farm

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| Reviews / Comptes Rendus | Labour/Le Travail, 53 | The History Cooperative

Sun, 04 May 2008 10:35:38 -0000

Beverly Silver's Forces of Labor aims to engage with current debates in labour studies by examining labour unrest internationally since the late 1800s. Silver, a proponent of the world systems theory approach associated with the Fernand Braudel Centre and its Review, uses a world-historical theoretical perspective and empirical data to move beyond the focus on the late 20th century of most writing about labour and globalization.

Tags: labor social movements wallerstein theory

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Resistance in the News

Sat, 03 May 2008 10:52:13 -0000

Culture has and continues to be fertile terrain in the ongoing struggle for a more just, equitable, and sustainable society and planet. This blog serves to highlight some of the most inspiring examples of cultural resistance around the world, and is by no means as exhaustive as it could be. If you know about other exciting stories that need to be shared, particularely those that highlight the intersection of culture and political and social engagement, please bring them to our attention!

Tags: social movements culture

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SOCIALIST UNITY » HOBSBAWM INTERVIEWED

Sat, 03 May 2008 10:26:53 -0000

Tags: hobsbawm socialistunity social movements globalisation

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Cultures of Resistance

Sat, 03 May 2008 10:21:06 -0000

Tags: social movements

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Bloggers are Africa's new rebels -- chicagotribune.com

Sat, 19 Apr 2008 14:28:46 -0000

Tags: social movements chicagotribune africa blogging

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Tibet - Leaders Divided Over Political Objectives

Fri, 11 Apr 2008 09:58:30 -0000

Tags: tibet uprising social movements independence

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Tariq Ali considers the legacy of the 1968 uprising, 40 years after the Vietnam war | Politics | The Guardian

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:42:30 -0000

Tags: via:criticalspatialpractice activism anti-war social movements

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Narco News Publishes Seven Essays from We Are Everywhere

Sat, 05 Apr 2008 09:38:00 -0000

Tags: via:krax critical theory zapatista mexico

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"Swarming and the Future of Protesting" (Why War?)

Tue, 01 Apr 2008 00:09:32 -0000

Tags: riots global protest social movements

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Affinities: A Journal of Radical Theory, Culture, and Action

Sat, 29 Mar 2008 12:59:24 -0000

Affinities is a web-based journal that focuses on groups, movements, and communities that set out to construct sustainable alternatives to the racist, hetero-sexist system of liberal-capitalist nation-states.

Tags: svarteper culture activism anarchism autonomy

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Globalisation and war - Transnational Institute

Mon, 24 Mar 2008 10:02:25 -0000

Corporate-led, finance-driven globalisation has...transferred wealth from labour to capital. This has resulted in inequality and exclusion...which, combined with the pressure on water and other environmental resources, is likely to fuel new conflicts.

Tags: svarteper globalization corporate multinational corporations

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Thu, 13 Mar 2008 10:09:02 -0000

Communication for Social Change Consortium (CFSC) is developing a network to address obstacles to more effective implementation of [CFSC] programming, particularly increasing the capacity and expertise to implement effective programmes on the ground.

Tags: communication social movements activism advocacy

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Art & Research - Chantal Mouffe: Artistic Activism and Agonistic Spaces

Sun, 09 Mar 2008 23:18:12 -0000

In my view this agonistic approach is particularly suited to grasp the nature of the new forms of artistic activism that have emerged recently and that, in a great variety of ways, aim at challenging the existing consensus.

Tags: svarteper social movements new mouffe

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Multitudes Web - Anti-Oedipus Thirty Years On

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:24:30 -0000

Tags: deleuze foucault art politics identity

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Eurozine - What makes a biopolitical space? - Toni Negri, Constantin Petcou, Doina Petrescu, Anne Querrien A discussion with Toni Negri

Sat, 08 Mar 2008 12:21:18 -0000

Toni Negri discusses the significance of urban space for new forms of opposition. The city, he says, is where the "political diagonal" intersects the "biopolitical diagram" – where people's relation to power is most pronounced.

Tags: activism class democracy identity management

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Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 23:49:07 -0000

Tags: china activism multinational corporations social

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