MobilizationThe presentations of citizen actions and mobilizations are offered by partner sites and working groups. They help highlight engaged mobilizations and those to come. They show the strategies and action programs adopted and implemented by the social movements.
Judicial repression has become a new weapon of States in the fight against social protest.
The last case that prompted our reaction involves the sentencing of 6 young people for the death in a fire of a 71-year-old worker during a street demonstration on 21 May 2016. These heavy sentences for a highly publicized case raise many doubts and make it possible to affirm, what is becoming a habit, the existence of a police and judicial structure to find guilty parties.
The World Social Forum on Migrations (WSFM) will take place in Mexico from 2 to 4 November, 2018. The forum is part of a broader process of mobilizations: The Migrant Caravan.
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Thousands of marchers committed to nonviolent change all over the World will march from India, Belgium, France, Germany, Sweden, Mali, Senegal, Spain and other countries to Geneva (Switzerland).
The people that are given prominence in the Jai Jagat campaign are from the bottom of the socio-economic hierarchy: Indigenous communities, Socially discriminated groups; Small farmers and landless communities; Refugees and those from conflict areas; and Ecologically displaced persons.
This Thursday, May 17 opens in Montreal the "Great Transition", a rather exceptional event that awaits more than 1000 people.
For this meeting, the idea of "transition" becomes a process, an obstinate and daily struggle and at the same time a set of "pre-figurative" experiments. Hence the strong desire to create movements and parties that are tools of emancipation, not levers to allow "managers and skilled" to take the place of others. Hence the need to bring to the forefront and give voice to the invisible and inaudible of history, women, natives, refugees, the damned of the earth of all kinds to begin with this huge "precariat" , especially young, especially female. Hence the need to rethink the economy out of the shackles of false growth and false progress, by restoring another relationship with Pachamama, which requires not to consider it as a "resource".
The Tricontinental Conference had brought the hope of living in freedom and dignity, breaking the shackles of colonialism and neo-colonial exploitation.
The Bandung Conference affirmed the right of peoples to be liberated from colonial domination and development. It became clear that the (...)
The movements discussed here concern Poland, Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia. Those movements share two general transversal aspects to the 1968’s in the world, despite different contexts. The first is the political radicalization of a new generation; the second is the revolutionary dynamic of (...)
The Vietnamese revolution and the split of the communist movement had considerable repercussions in the politicization and the thinking of student movements in Asia.
Abraham Behar proposes to analyze this phenomenon based on two examples: Japan and Pakistan.
In Japan, student (...)
Since 2009 people occupy the ZAD of Notre Dame Des Landes to prevent the construction of a new airport.
On the 17th of January, the French government announced that the airport project would be abandoned, however, the people occupying these 4000 acres of territory refuse to leave as this zone has become "one of Europe’s largest laboratory of commoning".
Bulldozers, supported by 2500 riot police, armored vehicles, helicopters and drones came to remove them from the zone.
The organizations that participated in the facilitation process of the World Social Forum 2018, held in Salvador from March 13 to 17 call for international support and solidarity with the political, partisan, union, social, and popular members who are without any affiliation, who stand up in every country, especially in São Bernardo do Campo, in a position of resistance to this deathblow which is being deployed against the Brazilian people.
La Via Campesina and its partners demand the END of the WTO and of the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) system, leaning on the many delegations gathered on this occasion. After this new failure of the WTO, trade liberalization negotiators will continue to look for other ways to reach their goal. Even the essential public storage programs were not allowed, even though they were provided for by the peace clause adopted in 2013.
The Via Campesina, will therefore continue to fight strongly against the threats of the WTO and against all free trade agreements, for the right to food sovereignty of peoples.
