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Throughout the world, solutions to some of the greatest challenges of the day are either nascent or fully thriving. Organized people's movements - sometimes with help from supportive government - are changing the structures which cause violence, poverty, inequality, and environmental destruction.

Community Control of Knowledge

ShikshantarA movement is afoot in some regions to generate new ways to educate children and share knowledge that powerfully reflects community wisdom, culture, and values.  What’s at stake is nothing less than who controls information and ‘truth’, what values are propagated in education, and how history is codified.

Community Control of Knowledge

Hundreds of Thousands March for 'Free Education' in Chile

Submitted by admin on Sat, 04/20/2013 - 09:15

Cross-posted from Common Dreams

By Common Dreams 

'Education should be equal for everyone, it should be free — we all have the same rights.'

- Jon Queally, staff writer

Students march during a protest to demand Chilean President Sebastian Pinera's government to improve the public education quality, in Santiago, on April 11,2013. (AFP Photo / Claudio Santana)The Chilean student movement roared back to life on Thursday, with organizers and media outlets reporting that hundreds of thousands of people joined students in the nation's streets calling for a free and quality education for all.

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The Mondragon Experiment: Documentary on the Spanish Cooperative Corporation

Submitted by admin on Tue, 04/09/2013 - 13:26

 

The MONDRAGON Corporation is a corporation and federation of worker cooperatives based in the Euskadi. Founded in the town of Mondragón in 1956, its origin is linked to the activity of a modest technical college and a small workshop producing paraffin heaters.

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One Mexican town finds more security by throwing out the police

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 16:31

Cross-posted from Christian Science Monitor

By Annie Murphy

Lidia Romero (c.), a member of the Community Police, stands guard on a road at the entrance to the town of Cherán one week ago. Residents of remote regions have taken up arms to patrol and defend their communities from organized crimes and gangs. Alan Ortega/Reuters

CHERÁN, MEXICO

About two years ago, citizens in Cherán, Mexico decided to battle illegal logging and drug violence by kicking out the police and running the town according to indigenous tradition.

Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly – World Social Forum 2013

Submitted by admin on Mon, 04/01/2013 - 16:09

29 March 2013, Tunisia

As the Social Movements Assembly of the World Social Forum of Tunisia, 2013, we are gathered here to affirm the fundamental contribution of peoples of Maghreb-Mashrek (from North Africa to the Middle East), in the construction of human civilization. We affirm that decolonization for oppressed peoples remains for us, the social movements of the world, a challenge of the greatest importance.

Global Left Converges in Tunisia to Promote New Vision for Earth's Future

Submitted by admin on Thu, 03/28/2013 - 09:30

Cross-posted from Common Dreams

By Jordan Flaherty

 

Reclaiming Our Imaginations from 'There Is No Alternative'

Submitted by admin on Sun, 01/27/2013 - 11:41

Cross-posted from Common Dreams

By Andrea Browner

We live in a time of heavy fog. A time when, though many of us dissent and resist, humanity seems committed to a course of collective suicide in the name of preserving an economic system that generates scarcity no matter how much is actually produced.

IDLE NO MORE: THE NEXT GENERATION- Brother Ali - "Letter To My Countrymen"

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 13:49

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Boycott of Standardized Tests Spreads as Seattle Teachers Revolt

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 13:43

Cross-posted from Common Dreams

By Jon Queally

Teachers in Seattle schools refuse to administer 'specious' standardized tests. Will others follow their lead?

 

    

Boycott of Standardized Tests Spreads as Seattle Teachers Revolt

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/21/2013 - 13:43

Cross-posted from Common Dreams

By Jon Queally

Teachers in Seattle schools refuse to administer 'specious' standardized tests. Will others follow their lead?

EXPANDING THE REALM OF THE POSSIBLE IN 2012

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/07/2013 - 23:22

By Beverly Bell
January 7, 2013

In the high desert outside Taos, New Mexico, I drove down a dirt road that parallels the Rio Grande and saw the thick haze of a forest fire. To see the spectacle, I quickly reversed my planned course and drove as close as I was able. Across a long line of mountains, red flames flicked up like snake’s tongues amongst dense black ropes of smoke. Where the blaze had worn down, thinner smoke wisps arose above charred, black land.