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What brought me to action…

February 24, 2015 by Michael Deppe No Comments
My reason to start networking within the activist communities was an idea of mine. I want to discuss my idea with experienced activists to get a valuable opinion about the feasibility. I think I will have to explain a lot, to prevent being misunderstood.
Concerning violence
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Bringing Fanon’s “Concerning Violence” to film

February 18, 2015 by Alnoor No Comments
I recently watched Concerning Violence and was in awe during the entire duration of the film. What is it about these scenes from colonialism and imperialism that strike a chord at the deepest core of our humanity?
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Power, Themes

The World Bank’s sham conference on land and poverty

by The Rules No Comments
The big question is whose interests the World Bank really serves. While they spend considerable time and money painting themselves as champions of the poor, the Bank has a battery of practices and policies that suggest a very different truth.
Cat and mouse
Featured, General

8 Out of 10 Cats Would Prefer a More Equal World

February 17, 2015 by James 5 Comments
Just 85 cats have as many mice as the poorest 3.5 billion combined. A recent report by Oxfam says that just 85 cats have as many mice as the poorest 3.5 billion cats in the world. Catipalism clearly isn't working out for the majority of cats.
Rock Against Reagan
Capitalism is Just a Story, Ideas, Themes

Music for action: Why am I an activist?

February 16, 2015 by James North 2 Comments
As we launch our new community-focused website we've been asking the question above, and discussing what makes us want to tell #adifferentstory
Featured, Ideas, Themes

“Dominator” vs. “partnership” cultures: A profound re-telling of human history

February 10, 2015 by Guest 4 Comments
Riane Eisler, a world-renowned Austrian-born American systems scientist, writer, and social activist, has proposed that we ought to understand human cultures and societies in terms of two fundamental categories: “dominator” and “partnership.”
One Party Planet - the system ruled by neoliberalism
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Money, Power, Secrets

Syriza party will ‘never ratify’ TTIP

February 6, 2015 by Swati No Comments
The Syriza party has said that it will ‘never ratify’ the TTIP deal. This will be their ‘gift to all European people’. Georgios Katrougkalos, the new deputy minister for administrative reforms, has confirmed that the party stands by the anti-TTIP stance it had even before it came to power.
Inequality 300 richest have as much as 3 billion poorest
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, Ideas

Is the Sustainable Development Goals’ good times narrative for the best?

February 5, 2015 by Martin Kirk 2 Comments
There are, essentially, two grand narratives about these times we live in. We can think of each as a kind of foundational logic, invoked as a way to frame the vastly complex reality we see all around us, and therefore help determine how we understand and respond to it.
"Millennium Development Goals - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008" by World Economic Forum from Cologny, Switzerland - Millennium Development Goals - World Economic Forum Annual Meeting Davos 2008Copyright World Economic Forum (www.weforum.org), swiss-image.ch/Photo by Andy MettlerUploaded by Kimse. Licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons - http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg#mediaviewer/File:Millennium_Development_Goals_-_World_Economic_Forum_Annual_Meeting_Davos_2008.jpg
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, Ideas, Power, Themes

4 things you probably know about poverty that Bill and Melinda Gates don’t

February 4, 2015 by The Rules 13 Comments
Bill and Melinda Gates just released their annual letter, "Our Big Bet for the Future," with their thoughts on the current state of global poverty and the suite of projects they are funding to tackle it. While their hopeful tone and a good deal of what they are proposing is...
Featured, General

Strip away the sound & fury and there’s a very simple reason we’re not solving big problems 

January 30, 2015 by Martin Kirk 5 Comments
I used to work in the aid business. For about ten years. I loved it for most of that time. But I gradually lost faith with the basic premise; that aid and charity are anything like solutions to all the problems the big aid agencies say they want to solve:...
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