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- Ethical and philosophical fundamentals: subjectivity, domination, and emancipation
- Human rights, peoples, territories, and defense of Mother Earth
- Political subjects, the architecture of power, and democracy
- Production, distribution and consumption, access to wealth, common goods, and economies in transition
Documents > World < Volver
March 08 2012
Rio+20 Earth Summit: time to change the
narrative
First is the proposal to recognise planetary boundaries. Second is
the proposal to make Ecocide the Fifth International Crime ...
By LSX Occupy: Energy Equity and Environment Group
March 03 2012
Transnational Corporations: Major Players in
Human Rights Violations
To understand the system of dominant power in contemporary society,
it is necessary to understand the role that TNCs play within it.
By Europa-Third World Center
March 03 2012
Life beyond Growth
After thousands of years of steadily increasing growth, it seems
possible that the human species is realizing that it will soon ...
By Institute for Studies in Happiness Economy and Society
March 01 2012
The Global Social Crisis
Over the period 2008-2009, the world experienced its worst financial
and economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. ...
By United Nations
March 01 2012
Rio+20: transition now !
We need to introduce major change that focuses on the general
interest of all human beings, at all levels of society, and ...
By French Collective Rio+20
February 19 2012
Ethics in Concordian economics
Ethics is a fundamental construct of the theory of distribution of
ownership rights and this theory lies at the very core of ...
By Carmine Gorga
February 03 2012
Socioeconomic Democracy and Sustainable
Development
Socioeconomic Democracy is a theoretically consistent and
practically implementable socioeconomic system wherein there ...
By Center for the Study of Democratic Societies ◾ Robley E. George
February 01 2012
Declaration of Social Movements Assembly during
the 2012 Thematic Social Forum
We, people of all continents, fight against the causes of a systemic
crisis expressed as the economic, financial, political, food, ...
By Social Movements Assembly
January 22 2012
Rio+20 and the greenwashing of the global
economy
Challenging the corporate co-option of the UN should be a major
priority in the run-up to Rio+20.
By Olivier Hoedeman ◾ Transnational Institute
January 22 2012
From the American Century to a Cosmopolitan
Order
Who gets what, when and why are no longer questions confined to
state silos, democratic or otherwise? Who makes the rules ...
By David Held ◾ Social Europe Journal