World Social Forum: 10 years after: Elements of a new agenda: The Commons

Silke Helfrich The multiple crises in food & development, climate & environment and finance mirror a crisis of ideas. Therefore, fresh, coherent and powerful ideas are urgently needed. The World Social Forum has shown for about a decade, that such ideas (and alternatives) are abundant! One of them found it’s way onto the WSF agenda [...]

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Fortalecer los bienes comunes. Ahora!

Silke Helfrich “Ni la ‘los gobiernos de izquierda’ ni los ‘movimientos sociales de izquierda” pueden hacer mucho  más en el corto plazo (5 años) que involucrarse en acciones defensivas, cuyas acciones características serán guiadas por la idea de  «minimizar el dolor” de los estratos de trabajo en general, y los más oprimidos y la pobreza, [...]

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Bens Comuns: o novo conto do século XXI

Silke Helfrich Bens comuns? O quê ? Muitas vezes me perguntam o que são, exatamente, os commons. Temos o hábito de analisar a complexidade das coisas até o ponto onde supostamente podemos defini-las objetivamente. Entretanto, uma “definição científica dos commons” dificilmente existirá.

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Strengthen the Commons

Silke Helfrich „Neither ‘left’ governments nor ‘left’ social movements can do much more in the short run (next five years) than engage in defensive actions, whose guiding characteristic should be actions that ‘minimize the pain’ of the working strata generally, and the most oppressed and poverty-overwhelmed in particular.“, says Immanuel Wallerstein on this blog. Dear [...]

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