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"Hands off the MST Brazil!" say South African social movements | Abahlali baseMjondolo

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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

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.

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Halifax Initiative

Our mission is to fundamentally transform the international financial system, and its institutions, namely the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and Export Credit Agencies. By doing so, we hope to achieve poverty eradication, environmental sustainability and the full realization of human rights.

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SEEN

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del.icio.us network explorer

Very useful tool for determining who my closest 'neighbors' and 'friends' are in del.icio.us.

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Autonomous Geographies

The Project looks at how activists make and remake these types of spaces in their everyday lives by exploring their core ideas, beliefs and visions, how they are translated into action, what kinds of spaces for participation and identity are created and what it means to live in-between the overlapping spaces. We are currently participating in three UK-based Case Studies and are guided by an Advisory Group. By engaging in such research, our aim is to critically explore and support autonomous spaces in the UK and the ideas, struggles and practices that bring them to life, as well as help to introduce them to new audiences.

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DG Portal Home

for development information and knowledge sharing worldwide. The tools on this website bring together people and organizations around the globe who are working to improve life in developing countries.

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

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The myth of the reactionary working class | SocialistWorker.org

But Obama doesn't want to campaign on this basis. He wants to assure Wall Street and Corporate America, which have shifted sharply away from the Republicans to supporting the Democrats, that he is not a real threat. And so Obama tilts to the right--in a very similar manner to Bill Clinton's triangulation--to try to win over "swing voters."

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Wennerhag - The politics of the global movement

Large−scale social movements often behave provocatively but with the aim to make more space for democracy. The latest of these is the global justice movement born in Seattle in 1999. Magnus Wennerhag's new book is the first major Swedish study on the impact of this movement. In the extract Arena publishes here, he shows how it differs from the movements of 1968, being more political and more directedtowards international institutions and globalized democracy.

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The new social movements were critical of the idea of political representation
and the division between public and private, as they considered that a state−centred nderstanding of politics merely concealed the inequalities that existed outside the state and put them beyond reach of change. The activists in
the global justice movement have a different critical emphasis. They prefer to
defend the public and the political institutions, and other forms of political
autonomy that have been undermined by globalization. They express a will to
restore a sense of the public in an age that is perceived as far too focused on the private. One
post by pickinjava on 2008-05-06
The common good as well as a will to democratize global power is used to stem the wave of privatization. There is more to globalization, however, than de−politicization, privatization, and the spread of market forces. Alongside these we have seen the emergence of what might be called new forms of citizenship. The global norms that have guided the supranational bodies have created new political opportunities. In parallel with these bodies, new transnational public bodies have been created
with the aim of bringing pressure to bear on the denationalized order. The
social forums, particularly the World Social Forum, are clear examples. The
forums are helping to develop a global grass−roots identity, to formulate political demands for global rights, and to establish a transnational public body for political interaction.
post by pickinjava on 2008-05-06
Social movements are
seen alternately as actors creating and extending democracy, and as actors
obstructing and destabilizing it. The notion of politics as liberation is
confronted by the notion of politics as order.
But in order to understand the full impact of social movements on politics and
social developments, we must take both of these aspects into account. Social
movements may challenge, change or sustain the institutions and norms of the
society of their time. It is on the borderline between ideals of autonomous
freedom and the upholding of order that politics is created and social changes
are initiated.
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Global Voices Advocacy » Egypt: Facebooking the Struggle

After little less than a month following the April 6 strike in support of the textile workers in Mahalla City, during which a number of prominent Egyptian bloggers and internet activists were arrested, preparations for the next round of a planned general strike to mark the 80th birthday of President Hosni Mubarak, on May 4, 2008, are currently spreading all over the blogosphere and the Internet.

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Labor is Not a Commodity

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Labor Rights in Guatemala Aided Little by Trade Deal - washingtonpost.com

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Pambazuka News

An absolute priority has to be given to domestic food production in order to decrease dependency on the international market. Peasants and small farmers should be encouraged through better prices for their farm products and stable markets to produce food for themselves and their communities. Landless families from rural and urban areas have to get access to land, seeds and water to produce their own food. This means increased investment in peasant and farmer-based food production for domestic markets.

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Global Cultural Flows

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.

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The Power of Story in Social Movements

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

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

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.

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Resistance in the News

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!

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SOCIALIST UNITY » HOBSBAWM INTERVIEWED

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Cultures of Resistance

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