Category Archives: Alliances

Live from Amsterdam, Second Day Networked Labour Seminar

Posted on May 9, 2013 by
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A New Sort of Alliance for Another Europe | Transform! Europe

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

By Walter Baier On 7-8 June the Alter Summit of the European peoples will be taking place at the Velodrome in Athens. An alliance of more than 150 organisations – including trade unions, social movements, NGOs and political actors – from … Continue reading →

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World Social Forum: Appraisal and Outlook of the Forum from Latin America | ALAI

Posted on May 1, 2013 by

by Gustavo Codas The first great spontaneous, popular rebellion at a national level against neo-liberal globalization was the Caracas Uprising of 1989. In 1992, a group of Venezuelan military rebels, led by Hugo Chavez, sought to give it a political … Continue reading →

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At World Social Forum: Unity and Dissent Within Global Movements

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

from the opening March of the World Social Forum in Tunisia. (Photo: Jordan Flaherty) An estimated 50,000 people from 5,000 organizations in 127 countries spanning five continents participated in the World Social Forum in Tunisia over the past week. By … Continue reading →

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Occupy the WSF | Spanish Revolution

Posted on March 31, 2013 by

In #globalrevolution on 31 March 2013 at 13:09 Global Square 2013 Tunis, photo via @CaseyJAldridge Dear people, In 1999 the counter-globalisation movement burst onto the streets at the WTO conference in Seattle. Two years later, in Porto Alegre, the movement began to organize its own … Continue reading →

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Declaration of the Social Movements Assembly – World Social Forum 2013 29 March 2013, Tunisia [En, Ar, Fr, Es]

Posted on March 30, 2013 by

(English) 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 … Continue reading →

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Como teleparticipar en nuestro proceso en el Foro Social Mundial

Posted on March 23, 2013 by

Hola a todos El Foro Social Mundial es la semana que viene, y desde hace meses unas cuantas decenas de participantes de movimientos sociales como el 15M y Occupy y similar venimos organizando una serie de asambleas y talleres que … Continue reading →

Posted in 15M, Activism, Alliances, Occupy, Participation, VIA 22, WSF 2013 | 1 Comment

March 23: A day for transnational migrants’ and refugees’ anti-racist and anti-precarity initiatives

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

We, migrants, refugees and precarious workers from different European countries will be on the streets on march 23rd for different initiatives against the European migration regimes and for refugees’ rights. In this time of crisis, policies against migrants are fostering … Continue reading →

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Networked Solidarity workshop by GlobalSquare (Occupy the World Social Forum) initiative

Posted on March 22, 2013 by

Dear comrades, Global Square initiative (global-square.net) has been preparing a space in and around the World Social Forum in Tunis in order to exchange, share and reflect on our recent experiences in horizontal grass roots uprisings / movements, among ourselves as … Continue reading →

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IdleNoMore Quebec calls for 3 days mobilisation #M20 #M21 #M22

Posted on March 14, 2013 by

  For immediate release Montreal, March 13, 2013 – Idle No More Quebec encourages people and organizations who work in solidarity with Indigenous and environmental causes to respond to the global call to action IDLE NO MORE. As part of World … Continue reading →

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Sharing Commons Spring Barcelona March 2013

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Promotional poster Sharing commons sprint. Barcelona. March 20th & 21st 2013. In occasion of Michel Bauwens (P2P Foundation) visit to Barcelona. Brought to you collaboratively by OuiShare, IGOP – UAB & Spanish Chapter of Open Knowledge Foundation, with the support of BCN The … Continue reading →

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Tunisia’s revolution annexed by Serge Halimi

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Almost everyone in Tunisia believes that the benefits of the revolution are in danger. Perhaps from a “secular” opposition that refuses to admit that the conservative An-Nahda Islamists were the clear winners in the National Constituent Assembly elections in October 2011. … Continue reading →

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For a Europe of the people, against the European Union of the Markets’

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

15M assemblies and other groups and social organiza­tions prepare the week of struggle The week of struggle will take place from the 11th until the 17th of March in Madrid and other Spanish cities and the rest of Europe, with … Continue reading →

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We The People of Europe vs. Capital State Partnerships… Join Us!

Posted on February 26, 2013 by

A call for action against the EU Spring Summit 13 and 14 March 2013 in Brussels Click here to see the Call for Action in multiple languages ‘For a European Spring’ is a call for actions, strikes and demonstrations all over … Continue reading →

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Them vs. Us: the Gaze & Compañeros of the Word (SupMarcos, Greg Ruggiero)

Posted on February 25, 2013 by

February 21, 2013 Them vs. Us: the Gaze To Look and Communicate by SUBCOMANDANTE MARCOS  “ … the passage to humanity today is called ‘rebellion’…” I’m going to tell you something very secret, but don’t go spreading it around…or, go … Continue reading →

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Call for Action: Blockupy Frankfurt! Resistance in the Heart of the European Crisis Regime May 31 and June 1, 2013

Posted on February 24, 2013 by

Again we* call for European days of protest in Frankfurt on the Main against the crisis regime of the European Union. On May 31 and June 1, 2013, we want to carry the resistance against the policies of impoverishment of government … Continue reading →

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Networked solidarity? An open workshop during the WSF in Tunis on the interactions between labour, NGOs, political groups and the squares

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

Public Group on Global Square website to prepare the workshop General objective of the workshop is to evaluate the recent experiences of networking and solidarity between, on the one hand, the horizontal square movements, free information movements, student movements, indigenous movements … Continue reading →

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World Social Forum: Critical Explorations | Edited by Jai Sen and Peter Waterman

Posted on February 14, 2013 by

OpenWord, New Delhi, 2012 Available FROM TODAY as an ebook @ http://www.into-ebooks.com/book/world_social_forum/ and soon also @ http://www.openword.in/critical-explorations. And soon to be also available as print-on-demand. PLEASE CIRCULATE WIDELY !  Some advance comments on Critical Explorations : This is an extraordinary book about an extraordinary phenomenon. From the … Continue reading →

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Madrid Joins in and Calls for a European week of mobilization (11-17 March 2013): EUROPE FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR THE MARKETPLACE

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

MANIFESTO – EUROPE FOR THE PEOPLE, NOT FOR THE MARKETPLACE in Spanish We stand in defence of a Europe that sets fundamental rights above the interests of the marketplace. We stand for a new model created by citizens through a … Continue reading →

Posted in 15M, Activism, Alliances, AlterSummit, Labour, Movements, Networks, Occupy, Participation, Solidarity | 2 Comments

Our democracy against their austerity! – A call for action against the EU Spring Summit

Posted on February 3, 2013 by

FOR A EUROPEAN SPRING Our Democracy against their austerity! – a call for action against the EU Spring Summit ‘For a European Spring’ is a call for actions, strikes and demonstrations all over Europe on the 13th of March, and … Continue reading →

Posted in Activism, Alliances, Alter Summit, Firenze 10+10, Movements, unions | 8 Comments