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Critical readings | Progressive Development Forum
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A space to discuss the politics of international development. Some critical readings on the theme of aid, global justice and NGOs (please use the comment box below to suggest more):. The Missionary Position: NGOs and development in Africa (2002) by Firoze Manji and Carl O’Coill. Imperialism and NGOs in Latin America (1997) – by James Petras. Hamlet without the Prince of Denmark: How development has disappeared from today’s ‘development’ discourse (2010) by Ha-Joon Chang. 31 August 2012 at 5:47 pm. I woul...
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Crashing the Parties | The Media Co-op
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The network: Media Co-op. Do you want free independent news delivered weekly? Can you support independent journalists with $5? On July 21, 2015. Reviewed by Media Co-op editors. copyedited. Paid for by Media Co-op members. Join them today. And support cooperative journalism. Possibilities for radical election organizing. Members of Montreal's Haitian community disrupt an appearance by Pierre Pettigrew in 2005. Yves Engler shows Pierre Pettigrew human rights reports from Haiti, February 2005. We can eithe...
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stevedarcy | The Public Autonomy Project
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The Public Autonomy Project. The ethics and politics of popular self-organization. Six Questions About Your Class Location that EverydayFeminism.com Isn’t Asking You to Think About. December 15, 2015. Nurses strike at Mills-Peninsula hospital, 2011. (Photo by Justin Sullivan). Did You Do Any of These 6 Activities Today? Then You’ve Got Class Privilege. Although the attempt to bring privilege discourse to bear within class analysis. Does have its defenders within marxism. If so, then you’re. Although I fe...
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previous nowar events, march, marches, peace, ottawa canada starting April 17, 2003
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PROTEST THE ARMS TRADE:. Ten Hours Against State Terrorism. Wednesday, May 27, 8 am to 6 pm. Come for some or all of the day if you can). 4899 Uplands Dr., Ottawa. Nonviolent Protest at CANSEC-15. Canada’s largest weapons fair, selling weapons and surveillance equipment. Host to some of the world’s worst human rights violators and torturers. They come to buy! Bill C-51: Real security or a. Thursday, 12 March 2015, 7:00 pm. Ottawa Public Library Auditorium. Columnist, Founder of Homes Not Bombs. President...
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Who We Are - Smart Change
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Updated March 30, 2015. Is an award winning media maker and social justice organizer based in Montréal. Her documentaries include No Land No Food No Life. A hard-hitting film on the economy, agricultural land grabs and the changes to farmers’ lives around the world and The Carbon Rush. And her short Outside of EUrope. Is a Montreal-based writer, web developer and organizer. He is co-author, with Nikolas Barry-Shaw, of. Paved With Good Intentions: Canada's development NGOs from idealism to imperialism.
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Charity | more like people
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Helping organisations to be more like people. The way Dan Pallotta thinks about charity is dead wrong. Tuesday, March 12th, 2013. I’ve noticed Dan Pallotta’s ‘The way we think about charity is dead wrong’ TED talk seems to be spreading around the internet quite quickly. The title grabbed me, but the content couldn’t be more off. So I thought I’d weigh in with an alternative perspective. Firstly, where I agree with him: many of the ways our charities work, stifle innovation. Mo’ money, mo’ talent? I don’t...
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People | Vancouver Media Co-op
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In the Network: Media Co-op. Support the VMC, donate today! Ottawa, Algonquin Territory. Computer and network fixer, server administration, mailing list and content managent system administration, coop housing advocate, activist for. Vancouver, Unceded Coast Salish Territories. East York, Toronto, Ontario. I'm just a regular guy, born and raised in Toronto and lived here all my life. Daniel . Toronto, CANADA. Sudbury, Ontario, Canada. DTES Vancouver, BC. Halifax, Nova Scotia. A Group of Left.
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What is Counter-Politics? | The Public Autonomy Project
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The Public Autonomy Project. The ethics and politics of popular self-organization. January 8, 2015. By Stephen D’Arcy. Politics, in one important sense, is the activity of exercising or attempting to influence the exercise of public authority, that is, power claiming legitimacy on the grounds that it acts in the name of the people who comprise a (real or imagined) political community. 8220;You are in Zapatista rebel territory. Here, the people rule, and the government obeys.”. Spirit of the time], is ant...
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Canada | Victoria Peace Coalition
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War is not the answer. Archived Posts from this Category. February 17, 2015. Troubled Times Ahead With New Anti-Terror Legislation. Posted by susan under Canada. Don’t be deterred by the length of this article. The author is offering a detailed interpretation of the implications of the new anti-terrorist bill. Troubled Times Ahead With New Anti-Terror Legislation. February 16, 2015. January 16, 2013. Posted by Stacey under Canada. The Cause of Wars and Aggression. UVic Social Justice Studies Program.
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