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The Europie Festi-Forum 2013 : A Space to Empower Young People
The Europie Festi-Forum 2013 : A Space to Empower Young People

Why? In the context of the crisis we all face, social movements exist, but act separately. Moreover, youth generally remain passive, unaware of their potential as social actors. EuroPie comes as a direct response to these issues and carries the message of solidarity, engagement in civil society and youth empowerment, claiming the building of a shared European space. EuroPie aims at being not just another event, but one of the necessary checking points in the social movements calendar (...)
Rajendra Singh : Rainwater Harvesting to Replenish Underground Water
Rajendra Singh : Rainwater Harvesting to Replenish Underground Water

The wells in Rajasthan's Alwar District had dried up, thrusting the people into abject and seemingly inescapable poverty. The revival of traditional earthen dams to capture rainwater for recharging the underground water supply provided a tipping point that brought the wells back to life. And with the water came a better life for the people. It started in the spare, humble village of Gopalpura. Nearly a thousand villages are now following Gopalpura's example. Rajasthan receives a scant 16 (...)
Occupy Wall Street? Just defund it.
Occupy Wall Street? Just defund it.

A century ago, Louis Brandeis, a distinguished Boston lawyer who would later go on to the Supreme Court, wrote a series of articles in Harper's Weekly denouncing what he called the “financial oligarchy” on Wall Street that had effectively seized control of the burgeoning industrial economy. The investment banks at the center of this oligarchy, he argued, were not content simply trading securities, in which they took the “inconsistent” position of being buyer and seller. They also had cornered (...)
Janasanskriti: Transforming World through Theatre
Janasanskriti: Transforming World through Theatre

How and when it started There is monologue everywhere in our society where the oppressed class is only allowed to listen, see and receive order from the groups of the people who occupy a higher position in the society. So, they become committed to a cultural movement, i.e., a culture of “dialogue” where the oppressed class people will speak about their problem and they will take decision on their own, independent of political parties. In February, 1985 a group of dedicated people got (...)
A call to organize an Assembly of Migrants and Solidarity Associations at the WSF Tunisia 2013
A call to organize an Assembly of Migrants and Solidarity Associations at the WSF Tunisia 2013

The right to move out from the country of birth recognized by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights signed in 1948 it is questioned ever more by the so-called nation states. The controls put in place for those who attempt to escape from their countries has reached both a high level of technological sophistication and of cruelty. The policies of "closing down the borders" has been transformed in a "war against migrant people" and it doesn't respects any fundamental human rights. As a (...)

Financial crisis

One-man bank keeps German village business running

Peter Breiter, 41, is an unusual banker. Not for him the big bonuses, complicated financial instruments and multi-million deals. He is happy instead writing transaction slips out by hand for the 500 inhabitants of the tiny southern German (...)

Arts and Culture

Al-Khayal al-Shaaby : developing the possibilities and consciousness using street theatre in the slums of Cairo

The Theatre Group al-Khayal al-Shaaby (The Popular Imagination) Al-Khayal al-Shaaby group, which was founded in 2001, relies in its theatrical work on experimentation in an ongoing workshop, which aims at developing the possibilities and (...)

Media

Acxiom, the Quiet Giant of Consumer Database Marketing

IT knows who you are. It knows where you live. It knows what you do. It peers deeper into American life than the F.B.I. or the I.R.S., or those prying digital eyes at Facebook and Google. If you are an American adult, the odds are that it knows (...)

Ecological transition

Four things you should know about the Fukushima nuclear disaster

The Fukushima nuclear disaster that began on March 11, 2011 was a scary time for the whole world. Some early reports even warned about radiation being carried on the wind as far as the west coasts of the USA and Canada, and many international (...)

Media

Freedom of Expression is a Fundamental Human Right

Résumé en français : Dans cette déclaration à l’occasion de la Conférence mondiale des télécommunications internationales qui s’est tenue à Dubaï du 3 au 14 décembre 2012, l’AMARC rappelle que "la radio doit d’être d’accès universel, gratuit et anonyme, et (...)

Human rights

Inter-American Commission on Human Rights Reviews Freedom of Speech in Guatemala

On March 15, in Washington D.C., the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) will hold a hearing during its 147th Period of Sessions concerning the freedom of expression of Indigenous Peoples in Guatemala. The hearing will address the (...)

Calendar

Europie Festi-Forum 2013 - From 23 to 25 August

Experiences

Mapping the Commons of Athens and Istanbul

Can the commons be mapped? Which is the new common wealth of the contemporary metropolis and how can it be located? What are the advantages and (...)

Village uses ’Laporiya Squares’ to outwit drought

In Laporiya village in Rajasthan, a unique water conservation scheme involving Laporiya Squares has ensured bumper harvests and increased incomes (...)