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Articles
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Check
out the latest issue of Encounter: Education for Meaning and Social Justice on "Gandhi, The Teacher", featuring
articles by Dana Stuchul, Madhu Suri Prakash, Arun Gandhi, and Dilafruz Williams. |
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Arundhati
Roy delivered the Third Annual Eqbal Ahmad Lecture, at Hampshire College, on February 15,
2001. Here are her concluding remarks at that lecture:
"...Cynics say that real life is a choice between the failed revolution and the
shabby deal. I don't know... maybe they're right. But even they should know that there's
no limit to just how shabby that shabby deal can be. What we need to search for and find,
what we need to hone and perfect into a magnificent, shining thing, is a new kind of
politics. Not the politics of governance, but the politics of resistance. The politics of
opposition. The politics of forcing accountability. The politics of slowing things down.
The politics of joining hands across the world and preventing certain destruction. In the
present circumstances, I'd say that the only thing worth globalizing, is dissent. It's
India's best export."
For the entire transcript of the lecture, visit
http://www.sustaindane.org/main/a_roy.html |
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Check out the magazine Humanscape for the latest in
alternative media/news/voluntary sector, etc. in India and South Asia. |
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Organizations and Networks |
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Multiworld is a new initiative launched by people
from Asia, Africa, Latin America and Aotearoa. It is dedicated to nurturing and
protecting intellectual creativity and diversity, and is determined to actively fight the
influence and spread of debilitating and homogenizing institutions. Check out their
projects Taleemnet (for dismantling
factory-schooling) and India Organic (for
promoting/connecting organic farmers). |
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YES! (Youth for Environmental Sanity) is hosting its
annual World Youth Leadership Jam for
dynamic young leaders from around the globe. This year, the Jam will be held in
Rishikesh, India, in October 2003. A special community event will be held in New
Delhi on October 21, 2003. Please contact Evelyn
Thornton at the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of H.H. the Dalai Lama for
more information. |
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In
February 2003, Pioneers of Change and Shikshantar co-hosted a learning journey on
Swaraj, entitled "Experiments in Self-Rule". Read the prospectus, and check out the questions
generated by participants during the course of the 11-day journey through Delhi,
Jaipur, Tilonia and Udaipur. |
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The
Association for the Promotion of Livestock in the Sahel and
Savannah (APESS) offers a unique contemporary example of swaraj. Visit their
site to see how member herders are using their traditional livestock-based culture to
evolve the emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and material dimensions of the human being. |
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The Berkana
Institute is a charitable educational and research foundation that seeks to create
communities of support and inquiry to explore new thinking and practice about the
organizing of human endeavor. The Institute supports collaborative research in many forms
and forums, all of which seek to discover the conditions that support the liberation of
our collective capacity in organizations worthy of our humanity. |
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The Loka Institute,
a non-profit research and advocacy organization concerned with the social, political, and
environmental repercussions of research, science and technology. |
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Redefining
Progress, a public policy organization that seeks to ensure a more sustainable and
socially equitable world. Working both within and beyond the traditional economic
framework, RP generates and refines innovative policies and ideas that balance economic
well-being, the environment, and social equity so that those living today and those who
will come in the future can have a better quality of life. |
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The Third
World Network which is a network of groups and individuals involved in bringing about
a greater articulation of the needs, aspirations and rights of people in the Third World;
a fair distribution of world resources and forms of development which are humane, in
harmony with nature and fulfil people's needs. This site features a lot of articles on
rethinking economic liberalization and the Seattle WTO meeting. |
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PCDF Home
Page - the People-Centered Development Forum is an international alliance of
individuals and organizations dedicated to the creation of just, inclusive, and
sustainable human societies through voluntary citizen action. |
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The
World Sustainable Cities Consortium offers a
number of tools and resources for those working in the area of transport, mobility and
logistics in transforming cities. It is also an efficient ‘big picture’
source, which can be useful both for the information it offers and the networks that it is
building up. Their goal is to work toward a truly useful, pragmatic and encouraging
World Sustainable Cities Innovations Knowledgebase. |
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Dialogue
Between Nations - an interactive global communications network hosting an ongoing
educational forum for the self-representation of the world's 300 million Indigenous
Peoples and their nations in relation to the goals of the United Nations International
Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples and the United Nations International Decade for
Human Rights Education (1995-2004). The programming focuses on the points of view shared
between visitors to the site in response to pre-recorded clips and statements by
Indigenous individuals, official documents and other resources. |
