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With Facebook now closely monitored in Egypt, activists have been learning to use the encrypted messaging app Signal to communicate on the streets. 
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There is an urgent need for citizens to demand the pressing structural reforms needed to address interconnected social, political and environmental crises.
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P2P Plazas: one year of research looking for interesting, challenging and inspiring autonomous experiences in Southern Europe
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#Global Goals? It's high time UN agencies and the mainstream media acknowledge the true scale of global poverty
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We should create structures that allow the conscious evolution and ascension of our species, in symbiosis with nature.
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Europe is at a crossroads. The institutions of the Troika are not only trying to destroy Greece; they are trying to destroy us all. Now is the time to raise our voices against this blackmail by the European elites.
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Thousands of Nicaraguans protest against a planned canal linking the Atlantic and Pacific oceans that they say will damage the environment.
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LSE is the epitome of the neoliberal university. It is managed and organised around corporate interests, which promote elitism and perpetuate inequality.
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Nathan Hornes didn’t think he’d still be working in fast food on his 25th birthday. He had a plan: he wanted to be a pop singer-songwriter and had moved from Missouri to Los Angeles after his 2008 high school graduation in order to become a star.
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Amazingly, it is sometimes a criminal act to retrieve food that has been thrown away. Often it is simply seen as culturally inappropriate or embarrassing. But when an estimated $165 billion worth of food gets thrown away in the U.S. every year, surely it’s time to change our attitudes about food waste.
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Does the term ‘occupation’ delegitimize
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Pro-democracy demonstrators in Hong Kong mobilizing en mass via a peer-to-peer messaging app is just the tip of the iceberg for the technology, says Micha Benoliel, CEO of Open Garden.
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Nearly two years ago a group named Occupy Sandy organized an unprecedented response to the unprecedented disaster that was Hurricane Sandy. Occupy Sandy, which was sparked by a few radical activists who knew each other from Occupy Wall Street, accomplished very significant feats for any organization, let alone one that was created ad-hoc and spontaneously in the days immediately following a disaster. Occupy Sandy (OS) dispatched tens of thousands of hot meals, more than 60,000 volunteers and was in the hardest hit areas of New York City, often times before the Red Cross or FEMA arrived and after they left. The efforts of Occupy Sandy signify a qualitatively and quantitatively impressive achievement for the radical political activist community in New York City and the surrounding area and for the “Occupy” social movement more widely. This novel achievement can be an instructive reference for organizers and movement builders of all stripes.
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As his candidancy falters, where can that rapturous energy be channelled? Into building an economy that serves ordinary people, and excludes the 1%
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Although Solar Citizens are reducing greenhouse emissions, SA Power Networks wants to implement a residential solar tariff.
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Video debate on the upcoming Spanish General Elections, the role of Podemos and the importance of the 15M movement
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The idea of POC21 is to invent inexpensive, modular household devices, farm tools and energy systems that can be replicated cheaply and shared by anyone.
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In the gap between people and increasingly unaccountable institutions beholden to financial interests, citizens are rising up to reclaim the commons.
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X-net's Simona Levi corrects some popular misconceptions resulting from international press coverage on the role of Podemos.
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people should not go into debt for basic necessities like education, healthcare and housing
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The vision for the future of Greece is especially captivating when you speak with the people here that are involved with making the place more liveable.
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Despite being continents apart, the struggles of the Kurds and Zapatistas share a similar purpose: to resist capitalism, liberate women and build autonomy.Image: Tierra y Libertad by Matt Verges (can be ordered as a poster here).
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“The free/open source software and design communities; hackerspaces and the do-it-yourself enthusiasts; movements for an independent Internet; initiatives for free/communal wifi and open access to knowledge; permaculture communities… What do all these have in common? Are they unrelated cases or coincidences? Or could they be seen as seeds of a new civilization full of contradictions and chances for renaissance and change? This documentary — a low-budget yet sublime production — narrates the story of several Greek-based, knowledge-oriented communities that are building the world they want, within the confines of the fragmented world they want to transcend.”
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The Arab Spring is now going through a frustrating period of setbacks. From this perspective, the fact that the next World Social Forum will again take place in Tunis, from 24 - 28 March 2015, proves particularly important. “This forum is a necessary one in order to, among other things, raise citizens' level of consciousness in order to better mobilise to confront injustice and inequality, and support peoples’ liberty and dignity,” emphasises Mimoun Rahmani, researcher on economics, active member of the North African Social Forum. Rahmani is also an indispensable political and social analyst in the region, an ATTAC-Maroc activist and member of the coordinating group of CADTM Africa (Committee for the Cancellation of Third World Debt). Interview.
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As concerned citizens mobilise for climate change demonstrations across the world, never has it been more important to embrace a collective demand for ‘system change’ as the surest way to limit global warming and ensure environmental sustainability.
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