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Brazil's President Lula: 'Father of the Poor' Has Triggered Economic MiracleBrazil's President Lula 'Father of the Poor' Has Triggered Economic Miracle Brazil is seen as an economic success story and its people revere President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva like a star. He is on a mission to turn the country into one of the world's five biggest economies through ...
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Democratic Science and Technology by Indian Community GroupsIndian community groups form alliances with UK research institutes to create an accountability forum for Indian scientists and policymakers on future agricultural technologies
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Democratic Science and Technology by Landless Workers in BrazilA landless workers' movement in Brazil supports low cost agro ecological technologies and challenges the introduction of GM crops by transnational corporations
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Follow Brazil's ExampleThere seem to me to be two occasions, which require two plans for the world left, and in particular for the US left. The first occasion is in the short run. The world is in a deep depression, which will only get worse for at least the next one or two years. The immediate short run is what ...
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Porto Alegre's Participatory Budget Of, By, and For the PeopleHow would you like to distribute 200 million dollars to your fellow citizens? That’s the amount of money the city of Porto Alegre spends in an average year for construction and services—money not committed to fixed expenses like debt service and pensions.
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The City that Ended Hunger :: Belo Horizonte, BrazilA city in Brazil recruited local farmers to help do something U.S. cities have yet to do: end hunger. In writing Diet for a Small Planet, I learned one simple truth: Hunger is not caused by a scarcity of food but a scarcity of democracy. But that realization was only the beginning, for then I ...
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Supporting Pioneering Leaders as Communities of PracticeWe live in a time when coalitions, alliances, and networks are growing. People have created many networks, and some are now creating networks of networks. These networks will be essential for successful change, but they are not as intentional as is a community of practice. Exchanges among ...
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Reclaiming our right to power: some conditions for deliberative democracyDeliberative and inclusive processes (DIPs) are increasingly being used in the North and the South to give the historically excluded a voice in decisions. Some of these methods and processes include citizens’ juries, consensus conferences, scenario workshops, multi-criteria mapping, ...
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Mapping Dialogue - A research project profiling dialogue tools and processes for social change“ An answer is always the part of the road that is behind you. Only questions point to the future.” Jostein Gaarder The modern world loves answers. We like to solve problems quickly. We like to know what to do. We don’t want to “reinvent the wheel”. We don’t want to “waste our time”. And when we ...
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