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en - Land grab in Africa and climate crisis

Ressources - 21 January 2012

The Polaris Institue is based in Ottawa and aims to retool citizen movements for democratic social change The Polaris Institue is based in Ottawa and aims to retool citizen movements for democratic social change http://www.polarisinstitute.org/ The Polaris Institue reveals in a short article the results of the land grab in Africa on the climate crisis. it is being fuelled by investment.from outside the continent Also available are articles on : - Corporations. climate and the (...)

es - 40 años del Documento JUSTÍCIA EN EL MUNDO

Ressources - 29 de diciembre de 2011

Después de 40 años, el documento del Sínodo de los Obispos de 1971, Justicia en el Mundo, continua inspirando y motivando justicia y paz como dimensión constitutiva de la predicación del evangelio. La Comisión Justicia Paz e Integridad de la Creación de la Unión de Superiores Mayores (UISG y USG) ha realizado un seminario en Roma el 19 de Noviembre, con el objetivo de poner énfasis en este documento. No solo a causa de su aniversario, sino porque este documento tuvo una fuerte influencia en (...)

en - "The Spirit Level"

Ressources - 23 August 2011

`The Spirit Level’ is a book for those living in advanced economies, very often with increaseing levels of inequality. It is written by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett We are rich enough. Economic growth has done as much as it can to improve material conditions in the developed countries, and in some cases appears to be damaging health. If Britain were instead to concentrate on making its citizens’ incomes as equal as those of people in Japan and Scandinavia, we could each have seven (...)

en - Beyond the genocidal concept of tribal homelands

Ressources - 15 July 2011

on the East African federation Mahmood Mamdani addresses two fundamental questions for the East African Federation : - who is indigenous? and from that flows the question is citizenship ethnic or territorial? and who has the right to land? Mamdani is the director of the Makerere Institute of Socail Research.’East Africa has two post-colonial traditions of citizenship’, writes Mahmood Mamdani: territorial and ethnic. If the region is to have a political federation, it will need to be based (...)

en - Land ’investment’ deals in Africa: Say ‘no way!’

Ressources - 1 July 2011

Food insecurity, loss of food sovereignty, the displacement of small farmers, conflict, environmental devastation, water loss, and the further impoverishment and political instability of African nations – these are among the consequences of large-scale investments in land in Africa, a special investigation by the Oakland Institute has revealed. Pambazuka News spoke to Anuradha Mittal, Jeff Furman and Frederic Mousseau about what prompted their research and what they discovered. PAMBAZUKA (...)

fr - Solutions locales pour un désordre global, de Coline Serreau, 2010. L

Ressources - 2 mai 2011

Documentaire à voir Solutions locales pour un désordre global, de Coline Serreau, 2010. Le sujet est celui des ravages crées par les procédés agro-industriels utilisés partout dans le monde pour mettre en œuvre la « révolution verte » depuis 50 ans. Les personnes interrogées (Vandana Shiva, Pierre Rabhi, Claude et Lydia Bourguignon, …), experts des 4 coins du monde (Inde, Brésil, Ukraine, France, Burkina Faso, etc.) partagent le même diagnostic : nous détruisons la planète, réduisons les équilibres (...)

en - DVD on climate change

Ressources - 31 March 2011

An Inconvenient truth 2006 - Al Gore

en - Website for the Jubilee Debt Campaign

Ressources - 15 January 2011

This site is a mine of information on the role of debt in today’s world. The organisation based in the UK, campaigns for greater justice and the cancellation of much of the developing countries debt as well as campaigning against new debt in places like Pakistan. Haiti, South Sudan etc Topics cover, the financial crisis, vulture funds, climate debt, `private debt, public pain’, role of the World Bank and IMF amongst other things "Thank you all for what the Jubilee movement worldwide has (...)

en - Books

Ressources - 8 January 2011

Is it time to re-think economic growth? An important question for our times. Is more economic growth the solution? Will it deliver prosperity and wellbeing for a global population projected to reach nine billion? Tim Jackson, a top sustainability adviser to the UK government makes a compelling case against continued economic growth in developed nations, No one denies that development is essential for poorer nations. But in the advanced economies there is mounting evidence that (...)

en - Website- World Social Forum

Ressources - 8 January 2011

Another migration policy is possible http://fsm2011.org/en/frontpage During its tenth anniversary, the World Social Forum is going to try a new format. In 2010, social movements and civil organizations are going to organize all over the world their own forums in order to debate alternatives to the civilization crisis that ravages the human kind....... Another migration policy is possible 2010/12/17 - 13:12 The 2010 Forum on Immigrants: another migration policy is possible will be (...)