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US Social Forum Call To Participate In World Social Forum In Montreal

June 9, 2016 Staff, www.fsm2016.org ,
By Staff of United States Social Forum - The United States Social Forum International Committee encourages movements and organizations from across the US to attend and participate in the 12th edition of the World Social Forum, which will be held this year from August 9 - 14 in Montreal, Canada. This is the first time in the WSF 15 year history that the Forum will be held in a country in the Global North. For 15 years since its founding in Brazil in 2001, the WSF has been the largest global gathering of social movements...

Venezuelan Social Movements Converge On Supreme Court

June 6, 2016 Lucas Koerner, www.venezuelanalysis.com , , ,
By Lucas Koerner for Venezuela Analysis - Caracas, June 5, 2016 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Activists from grassroots organizations protested outside the Venezuelan Supreme Court Tuesday to demand that the body put a halt to a controversial mega-mining project spearheaded by the Maduro government. The demonstration was organized by the Platform for the Nullity of the Mining Arc, an alliance of diverse movements and leading public intellectuals that emerged in response to a law authorizing open-pit mining in 12 percent of the nation’s territory.

The Crisis: Where Is The World Headed?

June 4, 2016 David Seaton, www.mintpressnews.com
By David Seaton for Mint Press News - I think almost all of us, progressive and otherwise, are conscious that we live in a strange and special era. “The best of times and the worst of times” … yada yada; not “evil” like the 1930s, but strange, dysfunctional, unstable, unpredictable and of a sinister syncopation. How could we define it? I would define this time we live in as “the end of the post-Cold-War,” the end of one thing, without the new thing being yet apparent.

Where Will The Next Social Movement Come From?

May 29, 2016 Tom Engelhardt, www.tomdispatch.com/ , , ,
By Tom Engelhardt for Tom Dispatch. Much of our future is reliably unpredictable, and what more so than the moments when mass movements suddenly break out and sweep across our world? Who expected, for example, that for perhaps the first time in history hundreds of thousands of people would hit the streets of U.S. cities and towns—and millions the global streets from London and Barcelona to Sydney and Jakarta—in early 2003 to protest the coming invasion of Iraq, a war, that is, that hadn’t even begun? Or that such a movement would essentially vanish not long after that war was predictably launched? Who imagined that, in September 2011, a small group of youthful protesters, settling into Zuccotti Park, an obscure square near Wall Street in downtown Manhattan, would “occupy” it and so the American imagination in such a way that “the 1%” and “the 99%” became part of our everyday language; Wall Street (as it hadn’t been for decades) a reviled site; and “inequality” part of the national conversation rather than just the national reality? Who imagined in the moment before it happened that such a movement, such a moment, would then sweep the country and the world. . .

Brazil Social Movement Plans To Escalate Land Occupations After Coup

May 26, 2016 Staff, www.telesurtv.net , , , , ,
By Staff of Tele Sur - Latin America's largest social movement has promised a new wave of farm occupations in Brazil following President Dilma Rousseff's suspension to stand trial in the Senate, an official with the Landless Workers Movement (MST) said. The movement, a long-time ally of Rousseff's Workers Party which says it has two million members across Brazil, will target "idle" farm land owned by members of the interim government and its backers, MST spokeswoman Marina do Santos said Tuesday.

They Lit The Bern, What Comes Next?

May 21, 2016 John Tarleton, www.indypendent.org ,
By John Tarleton for The Indypendent - Winnie Wong calls herself a practical anarchist. She speaks in short intense bursts, an activist warrior slashing her way through the thicket of establishment politics toward a future that somehow has to be won. Charles Lenchner identifies as a “full-spectrum socialist” who will adopt the best strategy in a given moment to build the power of the working class. A former director of communications for the Working Families Party, his preferred voice is one of bemused irony that masks an underlying seriousness of purpose.

Political Revolution Will Continue Long After Bernie Sanders’ Campaign

May 10, 2016 Ethan Corey, www.inthesetimes.com , ,
By Ethan Corey for In These Times - A YEAR AGO, WHEN BERNIE SANDERS ANNOUNCED HIS RUN FOR PRESIDENT, few thought his bid would amount to more than a protest campaign. But today, after more than 2 million donors and 400,000 volunteers have helped Sanders build a highly effective political organization that has earned him victories in 18 states so far, activists are strategizing about how to turn his campaign into a long-term movement. In nearly every state in the nation, autonomous grassroots organizations began campaigning for Sanders months before his campaign established any official presence on the ground.

Mapping American Social Movements Through 20th Century

May 9, 2016 James Gregory, www.fdepts.washington.edu , , , ,
By James Gregory forUniversity of Washington - This collaborative project features maps and other visualizations showing the chronological geography of dozens of social movements that have influenced American life and politics during the 20th century, including radical movements, labor movements, women's movements, many different civil rights movements, environmentalist movements, and more. Until now historians and social scientists have mostly studied social movements in isolation and often with little attention to geography.

“Ecology Of Change”: Movement Uprisings + Long-Term Organizing

May 2, 2016 Mark Karlin, www.truth-out.org
By Mark Karlin for Truthout - Every once in a while, we see outbreaks of mass protests that capture the public spotlight -- whether it's millions of immigrants taking to the streets 10 years ago this spring, or huge student demonstrations in Quebec or Chile, or an occupation on Wall Street that spreads to hundreds of other cities and town. Media [are] almost always caught off guard by these types of mobilizations. Reporters label them "emotional" and "spontaneous." But the argument of our book is that there is actually a craft to uprising. If we study the playbook of strategic nonviolence, we can see that there are important principles and tactics that guide successful mobilizations.

We Need To Consciously Spark, Amplify And Harness Mass Protest

April 29, 2016 Mark Engler and Paul Engler, www.nationalobserver.com , ,
By Mark Engler and Paul Engler for Nation Books - By 1963, the Dorchester retreat center near Savannah, Georgia, had emerged as a buzzing hub of activity for the civil rights movement in the American South. The site where Project C was hatched was also the home of a thriving social movement ecology. With the help of veteran organizers at the Highlander Folk School, the Southern Christian Leadership Conference had renovated the facilities at a former missionary school located just a few miles off Georgia's Atlantic coast.

“Yes We Can!” From Spain To Britain To America, Revitalized Left Is Emerging

April 27, 2016 Derek Royden, www.occupy.com ,
By Derek Royden for Occupy - It took most American news media many months to realize that there was an actual contest shaping up in the Democratic primaries. The preferred candidate of party elites, Hillary Clinton, faced a strong challenge from the left in the form of long serving Vermont Independent Senator Bernie Sanders. In fairness, the lack of coverage was in part due to the ever more bizarre clown show being led by Donald Trump on the Republican side. But it also points to built-in biases in the way the corporate media covers leftwing movements and ideas.

Radical Politics In Age Of American Authoritarianism

April 11, 2016 Henry Giroux, www.truth-out.org , ,
By Henry A. Giroux for Truthout - The United States stands at the endpoint of a long series of attacks on democracy, and the choices faced by many in the US today point to the divide between those who are and those who are not willing to commit to democracy. Debates over whether Donald Trump is a fascist are a tactical diversion because the real issue is what it will take to prevent the United States from sliding further into a distinctive form of authoritarianism. The willingness of contemporary politicians and pundits to use totalitarian themes echoes alarmingly fascist and totalitarian elements of the past.

Nuit Debout: Citizens Are Back In The Squares In Paris

April 9, 2016 Geoffrey Pleyers, www.opendemocracy.net , ,
By Geoffrey Pleyers for Open Democracy - Since Thursday, 31 March, thousands of people have gathered every evening at the ‘Place de la République’ in Paris to share their disillusionments with institutional politics and to put into practice forms of direct democracy in popular assemblies and hundreds of small group discussions. Up to 80.000 people followed Sunday general assembly online on Sunday, and over 5000 on the square on various days. The “Nuit Debout” (“Standing Night”) has now become a national movement, with gatherings in 15 French cities, and even as far afield as Brussels, Barcelona and Berlin.

Some Possible Ideas For Going Forward

April 8, 2016 Michael Albert et al, www.truth-out.org ,
By Michael Albert, Noam Chomsky, Marjorie Cohn, Bill Fletcher, Irene Gendzier, Kathy Kelly, Robert W. McChesney, Boaventura de Sousa Santos and Marina Sitrin for Truthout - Around the world powerful and diverse possibilities are in struggle. We the signers of "Some Possible Ideas for Going Forward" think one high priority for progress is activists developing, discussing and settling on priorities around which to organize multi-issue activism in coming months and years. We hope this document can help inspire more conversations within groups and movements that, over time, come to a synthesis. We do this in the spirit of self-organization -- and as a rejection of preformed inflexible programs and agendas imposed on activists from above.

#NuitDebout: A Movement Is Growing In France’s Squares

April 7, 2016 Sam Cossar-Gilbert, www.roarmag.org , ,
By Sam Cossar-Gilbert for ROAR Magazine - Over the last month France has been rocked by mass protests, occupations and strikes, as a new generation takes to the streets to expresses its rage at labor reforms and growing inequality. Over a million people have mobilized across the country to say on vaut mieux que ça — “we are worth more than this.” The Loi de Travail or Labor Law is one of a number of neoliberal and security reforms introduced by the Socialist government that continues to dismay the general population. It will make it easier for companies to fire staff and reduce payouts to laid-off employees, and it threatens the 35-hour workweek.
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