People-centered economic development
My story starts with my colleage and founder’s story and a paper he delivered to the US Presidential re-election committee in 1996. it described a new model of people-centered economic development.
http://www.p-ced.com/about/history/
That led on to his work in Russia where he sourced a development project and microfinance bank for the city of Tomsk. Then on to Crimea to propose similar action for economic development of the repatriated Tatar community.
http://www.iccrimea.org/scholarly/economicdev.html
Obstructed by local corruption he spoke out about children dying in the streets, calling on a nation to develop a spine and confront their corrupt leaders. They did just that a year later.
http://eng.maidanua.org/node/331
Returning to the US to Chapel Hill NC, he lived in a tent and began…
North America
Algonquins of Barriere lake
http://barrierelakesolidarity.blogspot.com/
Located about 400 km north of Montreal, Quebec, the Algonquin community is struggling to regain control after the government unjustly deposed their traditional government and placed them under third party management.
Ihanktunwan
http://intercontinentalcry.org/judge-refuses-to-stop-hog-farm-on-sioux-land/
In South Dakota, the Ihanktunwan People (Yankton Sioux) are resisting an industrial hog farm being constructed right beside them. The resistance culminated a couple months ago, with state troopers encroaching on their land to defend the farm.
Shoshone
http://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2008/12/shoshone-building-permanent-arbor-on.html
For years the US government has systematically abrogated the Shoshone’s land rights. Continuing to do so, the government is preparing to increase it’s nuclear weapons development efforts on Shoshone lands. Meanwhile, the sacred Yucca Mountain continues to be eyed for a…
Riots in Greece - Rage is not just a feeling. It is a struggle for social justice.
DAYS OF DEMOCRACY 2008 EITHER WITH THE GUNS OF THE POLICE - OR WITH THE STRUGGLES OF SOCIETY No insurrection in history could ever be controlled, manipulated, or submitted to ideologies or political parties and mechanisms, it could never be merely political in content. Every riot, every insurrection has always been a social affair and has thus been deeply political in the broadest sense. After the murder in cold blood of 15-year-old Alexandros, a tumult of rage and discontent has come to the surface. A wave of excluded, disappointed, repressed, desperate people flooded the streets, of diverse cultural background, education, experience and class and were united in a spontaneous cry of a society that is being suppressed, deprived of its…
Mexico / USA border - volleyball over the wall!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=hXyijizUsJ4
Stories of migrants travelling through Mexico to reach the USA
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2008/02/mexicos-southern-border/cynthia-gorney-text
AND
http://current.com/items/76273562/il_treno_della_morte.htm
AND
http://www.latimes.com/extras/enrique/splash.htm
Poetry - Celebration to the Hole
Well, i’m a actress and i just can express myself, my rebellion, my discomfort and everything that’s make me feel very close to explode, making something more “artistic”. So, sometimes, i write, write and write… and sometimes i make poetry. I don’t know that is a history about resistance but i want to leave in this space a specific poetry that i made which i think have a lot of resistance’s screams.
Kiss and love to everybody (pleeease, let’s LOVE more, people!):
CELEBRATION TO THE HOLE
Let us all to the hole
Playing the devil magic
with bronze powder stored in pockets
Let us all play
In the mud and chaos of falsehood
Of the plastic smiles
In excess of…
Mexico/USA - what does the wall represent?
I’d like to ask that when you explore the look at the wall it isn’t simply about people fleeing poor mexico into the wonderful US of A there are plenty of mexicans, (i assume i’ve never been) that wouldn’t want to go to America, even if they could earn more. Also how about the economic reasons, ie NAFTA forcing mexicans across. Isn’t the wall just another neo-liberal policy of backwards socialism, public money into the private hands of corps like blackwater
Mexico / US border - an important site of cultural exchange, migration flows and inequalities
I’m greatly encouraged by the possibility of part of the film focusing on the site of Tijuana, as Gael discussed with Annie Lennox. Not only is it clearly an important site of cultural exchange, migration flows and inequalities but, as with many border areas, the creation of difference is on some levels only imaginary because the strict lines of cultural division that national borders insist upon, do not accurately embrace the realities of movements between and against them.
Importantly the factory culture of female workers in Cuidad Juarez, would also be an interesting inclusion perhaps, where the many unsolved “femicide” cases speak volumes on some of the extremely negative aspects of machista culture. Of course, I do not intend to…
Nigeria - Filing a law suit against Shell.
NIGERIANS FILE OIL LAWSUIT AGAINST SHELL IN THE NETHERLANDS
THE HAGUE, THE NETHERLANDS—November 5, 2008 – Four Nigerian citizens,
Friends of the Earth Netherlands and Nigeria will file a unique lawsuit
against Anglo-Dutch oil giant Shell in The Hague on Friday 7 November.
For the first time in history Shell’s international headquarters will
have to appear in court to respond to charges of causing environmental
damage abroad. The Nigerian plaintiffs, fishermen and farmers from the
oil-rich Niger Delta area, suffered from the effects of oil spills
related to Shell oil operations.
On November 7, their Dutch lawyer will serve a summons on Shell,
accusing it of negligence. New investigation shows that the villages of
the Nigerian plaintiffs have…
The Enawene-Nawe are an indigenous group that lives in the Juína River
basin. The group is related to the Aruaque, and have a population of 520
people and they occupy a territory of 742,000 hectres. The Enawene-Nawe had
their lands demarcated in 1996, more than 20 years after their first contact
with the modern world. The demarcation, however, neglected to include areas
crucial to the Enawene-wene´s culture. They wish to expand their territory,
having seen the area they have indicated that they have a historic and
sacred relationship with the land that is important for their survivial
culturally, and physically. The Enaweane’s request to expand their
territories has enraged local farmers. In the disputed Black River region,
agricultural development and…
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