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The Economics of Happiness conference, March 23 – 25, 2012

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/23/2012 - 13:31
The Economics of Happiness conference 
Organized by the International Society for Ecology and Culture, the makers of the film, The Economics of Happiness
 
March 23 – 25, 2012
David Brower Center
Berkeley, California
For more information, visit the conference website. 
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16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence: Amplifying their Voice

Submitted by admin on Fri, 12/16/2011 - 13:05


Originally posted here by the Global Fund for Women, as part of the Center for Women's Global Leadership's 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence Campaign, which concluded on Human Rights Day, December 10, 2011.

Amplifying their Voice


The challenges facing Palestinian women living under occupation are often obscured by political talk, but thanks to Palestinian feminists at Women, Media and Development (Tanmiyet wa i'lam al-mar'a – TAM) women in the West Bank and Gaza have a chance to express their voice.

 

 

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A Modest Call to Action on this September 17th

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/27/2011 - 13:17
Day eleven and the occupation in Liberty Square continues. Below we have reposted the inspring call to action put out by the occupation's organizers on September 17. The original posting can be found here. 

This statement is ours, and for anyone who will get behind it. Representing ourselves, we bring this call for revolution.
 

We want freedom for all, without regards for identity, because we are all people, and because no other reason should be needed. However, this freedom has been largely taken from the people, and slowly made to trickle down, whenever we get angry.

 

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"Dreaming of a New World": Day Five in Liberty Plaza

Submitted by admin on Wed, 09/21/2011 - 22:46


Excerpts from another update received by Other Worlds staff from Liberty Plaza in New York City. 

Wed, Sep 21, 2011 at 9:31 PM

Another amazing day in the Plaza.

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"The Plaza is now called Liberty Plaza": Wall Street Occupation Continues

Submitted by admin on Tue, 09/20/2011 - 10:07

Over a thousand there at last count this evening - numbers go up and down between around 500 and 1500. A powerful anti oppression workshop took place this evening. Long and wonderfully facilitated assemblies are almost ongoing. They all use the people's microphone, with new terms invented to maintain a positive spirit all the time. Like taking the groups 'temperature', where people respond with hand signals as if on a barometer, or doing 'mic checks' to see if people are getting tired of repeating all the time and maybe need a break.

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Where All Work Is Created Equal

Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 11:41

Zu Dong teaching calligraphy to TimeBank members at Confucius Plaza in lower eastside. School went badly last year for José, Angel and Estefani. The 8-year-old twins and their 7-year-old sister are recent immigrants to the Washington Heights neighborhood of Manhattan. In part because they didn’t speak much English, late in 2010 all three were notified they were in danger of failing.


 


 


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"We are Joining the World and Waking Up": Horizontal Assemblies on Wall Street

Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/19/2011 - 09:53

Thousands of people gathered on Wall Street yesterday. We marched, rallied, and then met in a park to form dozens of horizontal assemblies - some with over 100 people in each.
 

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How A Community-Based Co-op Economy Might Work

Submitted by admin on Thu, 04/28/2011 - 16:58

 

By Dave Pollard

From: http://www.countercurrents.org/pollard030411.htm

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An Economy that Works for Us

Submitted by Other Worlds on Tue, 12/28/2010 - 13:46

The disconnect between how economists insist the world works and how it actually works has rarely been more obvious than it is right now. Although officially the recession "ended" in the summer of 2009, a year and a half later millions of Americans remain out of work and are struggling to get by.  Even before the financial collapse, decades of economic growth failed to help most workers, whose incomes remained stagnant compared to inflation.

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"The People Must Be Agents of Change:" The Lambi Fund of Haiti

Submitted by Beverly Bell on Thu, 11/18/2010 - 12:01

Josette Pérard is director of Fon Lanbi Haiti, the Haitian counterpart of the Lambi Fund. Fon Lanbi trains, builds capacity of, and gets grants to women’s and small farmer organizations in rural areas. Josette’s perspectives on community development follow.
 

The idea of development is to provide everyone with the means to work, to meet their needs, and to let them enjoy their human rights so they can be full citizens.

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