Category Archives: Solidarity

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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A report from the World Social Forum by Ludovica Rogers

Posted on April 13, 2013 by

by Ludovica Rogers  I have recently returned from Tunis where I travelled to take part in the World Social Forum. I had never participated in one before, and the fact that it was happening so close to Europe, was an … Continue reading →

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The European Spring 2013 – A New Beginning? | Transnational Institute

Posted on April 3, 2013 by

27 March 2013, by Sol Trumbo Vila The European Spring’s Days of Action, that targeted the EU Summit and its austerity agenda, provides important lessons on how to develop alliances between trade unions, grassroots movements and civil society organisations. This article … Continue reading →

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Tunis: A tale of two World Social Forums | via Mariangela

Posted on April 2, 2013 by

by Nick Dearden The WSF needs updating for a post-Arab Spring, post-Indignado world, writes Nick Dearden. The problems and the possibilities were both on show in Tunisia The Tunisian World Social Forum has been the most energetic, lively, youthful forum held … 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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Support the Global Square gathering of grassroots activists in Tunis!

Posted on March 6, 2013 by

Several participants of social movements have been lately meeting each other at different spaces during 2012 like Agora99 in Madrid,  Firenze 10+10 in Florence. In Florence we have organized an assembly on the city streets that managed to strengthen 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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Global Unionism: The Peer-to-Peer Model | New Unionism Network

Posted on February 20, 2013 by

The transnationalisation of production, along with the rise of global supply chains, informalisation, financialisation, and connecting of world markets through informationalisation have all hit hard on workers. It seems to have become impossible to overcome the resulting divisions among working … 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 →

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RECOVERING INTERNATIONALISM By Waterman Peter

Posted on January 30, 2013 by

RECOVERING INTERNATIONALISM By Waterman Peter OVERVIEW Peter Waterman, born London, 1936, has the unusual advantage of having been heavily involved as activist and academic in both the old social movements and the new, both the national and the international spheres, … Continue reading →

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Invitation: GlobalSquare online meeting, Sunday 3 February 2013

Posted on January 29, 2013 by

Next meeting of GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative) Location: Occupytalk.org server, room: Assemblies & Round Tables > OPEN SPACE (Mumble instructions below) Date: Sunday, 3rd of February 2013 Time: 19.00 GMT/UTC, check your local time here: time zone converter About … Continue reading →

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Call for the Next global Assembly VIA22

Posted on January 17, 2013 by

Version en español abajo (Por favor difundir!)     ***********ENGLISH********** In this email: 1- VIA22 Call 2- Next global Assembly VIA22  3- January 22nd 2013 #22J ? Jump in! 4- VIA22 in your  area? 5- What are the main objectives of VIA22’s monthly process? 6- CONTACT … Continue reading →

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Invitation: GlobalSquare (Occupy WSF) online meeting, 17 January 2013

Posted on January 15, 2013 by

http://www.global-square.net * GlobalSquare (also known as Occupy the WSF initiative) is a name chosen during the last couple of meetings. You may remember another project, called The Global Square, which is not the same but we are both in touch and … Continue reading →

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Zapatistas: “to be heard, we march in silence”

Posted on December 22, 2012 by

By Leonidas Oikonomakis On December 21, 2012 As the Maya calendar ends, a new cycle of struggle begins with thousands of Zapatistas peacefully and silently occupying town squares across Chiapas. The Zapatistas are back! Flowing like the water of the river that beats … Continue reading →

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How to Rebrand Walmart via 99 Pickets

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

December 12, 2012 by 99pickets - original post Ready to Jam a Walmart Near You? Great! Here’s How. Read to the end for links to download hi-res, printable Rebrand Walmart signs. Making the Signs The “Unstoppable” and “Fightback!” price cards are ready to print … Continue reading →

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#BlockTheBoat – Stop Walmart Profits From Workers’ Deaths! Newark #D18

Posted on December 17, 2012 by

  On November 25th, 112 workers burned to death in a factory fire in Bangladesh producing garments for Walmart. The Port of Newark is a major entryway for Walmart garments coming from Bangladesh. Walmart is going to profit off of … Continue reading →

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Call for the third Occupy the WSF Online Meeting – Tuesday, 18th of December, 2012 at 19.00 PM GMT

Posted on December 12, 2012 by

Français ci-dessous – Castellano abajo – Italiano sotto From 26-30 March 2013 the World Social Forum (WSF) will take place in Tunis. The WSF is a global meeting bringing together civil society organisations, social movements and activists to discuss our … Continue reading →

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