3.05.05 social empowerment

Uprooting the System: Reflections on the Strategic Use of People Power

Protester against corporate globalization and patenting seed varieties, Seattle WTO meeting, November 1999 Photo: Spinnerin via Flickr, http://www.flickr.com/photos/ame/162825118/
Authors: David Solnit

Summary:

We need to articulate people-power-based strategies or folks will de-mobilize every election cycle.

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Feminist Declaration: From the Americas Social Forum in Guatemala

Woman with microphone
Authors:

Summary:

A good life must be based on an equal distribution of power.

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What’s up with the Violence?

Oakland, CA, January 14, 2009. A rally protesting the killing of Oscar Grant, a young African American supermarket worker, by an officer of the Bay Area Rapid Transit Police. Only after more than a week of public protests was the officer arrested. photo &
Authors: Shamara Rhodes

Summary:

I think to myself, if so many teenagers
are dying now my whole generation of
teenagers is going to be gone by the
time I turn eighteen.

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Building on Afghanistan's Traditions of Peacemaking: An Interview with Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Authors: Abdul Aziz Yaqubi

Summary:

We're caught between warlords, drug lords, the government, international armies, and the Taliban.

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Writing About War and Peace: Inside a Veterans' Group

Spiral staircase in the Töölö library, Helsinki, Finland, 2005. PHOTO: © REETTA R.
Authors: Shepherd Bliss

Summary:Shepherd Bliss describes his participation in a writers' group led by Maxine Hong Kinston.

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Majora League:An Interview with Majora Carter, Founder of Sustainable South Bronx

Majora Carter
Authors: Majora Carter

Summary:

The debate has to examine how environmental improvements to low-income communities lift up the economy, the safety, and the morale - not just locally, but regionally and nationally.

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Tomato Pickers Organize to Improve Conditions: An Open Letter to Burger King and the Florida Tomato Growers Exchange

Demonstrator in the rain
Authors: Clifton Kirkpatrick

Summary:

Boycott Burger King until it supports a penny per pound increase in wages.

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Ending the Cycle of Violence: Reforming Discriminatory Criminal Record Laws

CORI Reform Now!
Authors: Ivelisse Sanchez

Summary:

By depriving ex-cons of opportunity, current laws promote crime.

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Breathing Life into the Struggle: Victories for Indigenous Peoples & Transnational Allies

Indigenous Child
Authors: Paula Palmer

Summary:

Winning the right to decide if resource extraction should take place.

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Venezuela's Constitutional Referendum: Polarizing Politics

Book Cover- Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era
Authors: Daniel Hellinger

Summary:

The referenda pits supporters of populist reform against opponents of states of emergency.

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