Podcasts about World Social Forum

What role did education play in the US civil rights movement? What did it look like for anti-racist organizers to build radical schooling and organizing spaces that could evade the harsh surveillance lights of white supremacy and Jim Crow? What lessons can we learn from them today?Our March 2025 episode features journalist Elaine Weiss, who speaks about her new book, Spell Freedom: The Underground Schools That Built the Civil Rights Movement, published by Simon and Schuster this month.Spell Freedom traces the educational program that was the underpinning of the civil rights movement and voter registration drives. The Citizenship Schools originated from workshops in the summer of 1954 at the Highlander Center, a labor and social justice training center, located on a mountain in Monteagle, TN, just after the Brown vs. Board of Education decision. The heart of the book is Elaine's vivid retelling the stories of the four main leaders of the citizenship school movement, Septima Clark, Bernice Robinson, Esau Jenkins, and one of the founders of the Highlander Center, Myles Horton. She traces the path from this mountain center to Charleston and the sea islands of South Carolina, all framed by the segregated and racist South and the leaders who rose up to organize and resist Jim Crow and create a new South. As is often said in southern movement building (from the World Social Forum in 2006), “another South is possible; another South is necessary,” and Spell Freedom connects the histories and voices of the movements that continue to be necessary today.Episode Credits:Co-hosts and co-producers: Lucia Hulsether and Tina PippinEditing and Production Manager: Aliyah HarrisIntro Music: Lance Haugen and the Flying PenguinsOutro Music: "Plato's Republic" by Akrasis

Series: Labor Day Special Episode 2   Episode Description: “If we were smart as a country, we would look at all of these immigrants that are new citizens of the United States, and look at all of these food production methods and skills that they bring. We would have better food security by including the immigrant farmers in the decision-making on how food production is going to be developed for the future is hitting us really hard with climate change.” —Rosalinda Guillen   Farming is the backbone of our communities, yet too often, the hard-working men and women who toil in the fields are overlooked and undervalued.    But a growing movement is changing that narrative, empowering farmers to take the reins and shape a more sustainable, equitable food system. Community to Community (C2C), founded by Rosalinda Guillen, is a pioneering organization that empowers farm workers and immigrant communities to lead the charge in building a more sustainable, equitable, and community-driven food system.   In this episode, Justine and Rosalinda discuss the challenges and barriers in organizing farm workers, the integration of immigrant farmers' practices, the vision for community farms and food security, the role of regenerative agriculture in addressing climate change, and Rosalinda's hopes for the future of empowering farmers and transforming the food system. Connect with Rosalinda:  Rosalinda Guillen (she/hers) is the founder of Community to Community and a lead strategist and visionary within the non-hierarchical ecofeminist leadership of C2C. Her perspective is fundamentally influenced by her introduction to the multi-racial, working-class community organizing model of the Rainbow Coalition, the Cesar Chavez house meeting model, The World Social Forum, the Landless Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil and growing up a farmworker in La Conner, WA. Rosalinda has organized farmworkers in WA State and the strawberry fields of Salinas CA. She has represented farmworkers in the Legislatures of California and Washington State and in ongoing policy and Movement dialogues on immigration issues, climate change, labor rights, trade agreements, ecofeminism, and strengthening the food sovereignty movement towards a Solidarity Economy.    Website Facebook Instagram   Connect with NextGen Purpose: Website Facebook Instagram  LinkedIn YouTube Episode Highlights: 01:30 What is C2C?  09:18 Learning How to Organize a Community 11:54 Creating a New Narrative 18:09 Getting Into Consensus  21:49 Agricultural Lessons From Immigrant Farmers 26:50 The Answer is in Collaboration 30:45 The Role of Regenerative Agriculture   

You might have noticed that the podcast feed has been empty for a few weeks. Dean has been travelling the world and went all the way to Nepal to the World Social Forum to rub elbows with liberation theologians and activists. This week, Dean is back and ready to tell us all about it. Learn more about the World Social Forum here: https://www.wsf2024nepal.org/organization/activity/59 Thanks to our monthly supporters Hanna Justin Glenn Stina Soderling La synarquista CR Rowell-Jore jelly Matthew Ospina Lyn AD Jansen Katie Chepulis Terrence Holland Keenan Dolan Riley Jane De Las Casas Theo Jack Molly Grisham Laura caitlin Brittyn James Thomas Thomas Finley Matthew Joseph Marx TheAllTomato Sanjay Kumarendran steve morley Jessica C Matt Lori Petrie Mark Vinzani Michael Daniels Stacy's Mom Craig Kamran Mirza Jason Bartholomew Cooper Elizabeth Dale Ashton Adams Michael McGarry Davis Roberts Clarke Matthew Klippenstein Kevin Ethan Milich Philip Nelson Ribs Michael Lee Rodolfo Urquieta Cortes James Thomas Mark De La Paz Lea Mae Rice ChrisJ Gill Erik Mohr Joe Kruse illi Robert Shine Kurt XxXJudasdidnothingwrongXxX Maxwell Lorena Rivera Soren Harward Christian Noakes David Wadstrup Óscar Austin Gallyer Harrison g Randall Katie Marascio Elias Jacob D Francisco Herrera Michael Dimitras Jacob S Leigh Elliot Tyler Adair Catherine Harrison Zachary Elicker Kasey Erin Archambeault Mikegrapes Kate Alexander Calderon Alejandro Kritzlof Caleb Strom Shandra Benito Andrew McIntosh Peter Shaw Kerrick Fanning Josh Johnson Jonathan Taylor Jennifer Kunze Damon Pitiroi Yroffeiriad Sandra Zadkovic Stephanie Heifner Patrick Sweeney Aaron Morrison girlboss.icarus Leslie Rodriguez Sarah Clark Timothy Trout Kinsey Favre Name Colm Moran Stewart Thomas Lonnie Smith Brendan Fong Kylie Riley Darren Young Josh Kerley koalatee Tim Luschen Elizabeth Davis Lee Ketch Austin Cyphersmith Ashton Sims Ryan Euverman Tristan Turner Linzi Stahlecker Matthew Alhonte John Samson Fellows alex zarecki rob Kathryn Bain Stephen Machuga zane Collin Majors Victor Williams Daniel Saunders Andrew Brian Nowak erol delos santos Aaron Forbis-Stokes Josh Strassman Cal Kielhold Luke Stocking Sara Trey Brian S. drew k Matthew Darmour-Paul saheemax Adam Burke Zambedos Kevin Hernandez Wilden Dannenberg Evan Ernst Tucker Clyle Christopher RayAlexander Peter Adourian Dan Meyer Benjamin Pletcher John Mattessich Caleb Cropper-Russel Tristan Greeno Steve Schiroo Robert Clelland Anastasia S Scott Pfeiffer Terry Craghead Josiah Daniels yames Thaddaeus Groat Elisabeth Wienß Hoss Tripp Fuller Avery Dez V Zane Guevara Ivan Carter Ryan Plas Jonas Edberg Tom Tilden Jo Jonny Nickname Phil Lembo Matt Roney Stephen McMurtry Andrew Ness James Willard Noj Lucas Costello Dónal Emerson Robert Paquette Arty2000 Amaryah Shaye BreadandRosaries.com Frank Dina Mason Shrader Sabrina Luke Nye David Klassen Matthew Fisher Michael Vanacore Elinor Stephenson Max Bridges Joel Garver SibilantStar Devon Bowers Daniel David Erdman Madeleine E Guekguezian Tim Lewis Logan Daniel Daniel Saunders Big Dong Bill Jared Rouse Stanford McConnehey Dianne Boardman klavvin Angela Ben Molyneux-Hetherington Junesong91 Keith Wetzel Nathan Beam, Nazi Destroyer Dillon Moore Nicholas Hurley HJ25 Ibrahím Pedriñán Brando Geoffrey Thompson Some Dude M.N. Geoff Tock Kaya Oakes Ahar Tom Cannell Stephen aka Spike Stonehand Troy Andrews Andy Reinsch J Martel K. Aho Jimmy Melnarik Ian SG Daniel Rogers Caleb Ratzlaff emcanady Molly Toth

This podcast features Sumit Mitra, a thought leader on reaching the unreached with best of evidence-based diagnostics and health services, and President of Molbio Diagnostics (makers of Truenat). He is speaking at the World Social Forum (WSF 2024) in Kathmandu, Nepal, in a session entitled "Ending inequity is imperative if we are to end TB and deliver on health for all." This WSF 2024 session is being held in Ministry of Health and Population, Nepal.Listen to this podcast on Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music, Google Podcasts, Spotify, TuneIn, Podtail, BluBrry, Himalaya, ListenNotes, American Podcasts, CastBox FM, Ivy FM, Player FM, iVoox, and other podcast streaming platforms.ThanksCNS team

1- Striscia di Gaza. Il veto incrociato di Hamas e Israele contro il piano di Pace di Usa e paesi arabi (Roberto Festa) 2- Libano. Il movimento Hezbollah ha affermato di aver sparato decine di razzi su Kiryat Shmona, cittadina israeliana in Alta Galilea. Tel Aviv il ministro della difesa Gallant minaccia di attaccare anche Beirut. (Marco Magnano – Armadilla Onlus) 3- No dell'Egitto allo spostamento forzato dei residenti di Gaza nel Siani (Laura Cappon) 4- Si è aperto a Kathmandu, in Nepal, il World Social Forum che fino al 19 febbraio vedrà oltre 1.200 associazioni di tutto il mondo confrontarsi sui grandi temi d'attualità, primo fra tutti la crisi climatica. 5-- Stati Uniti. Comincerà il 25 marzo il processo a Donald Trump per l'accusa di aver pagato illegalmente l'attrice di film erotici Stormy Daniels 6- Indonesia. E' in ampio vantaggio alle presidenziali il favorito ministro della Difesa Prabowo Subianto, ex generale accusato di violazioni dei diritti umani sotto la dittatura di Suharto alla fine degli anni '90. (Emanuele Giordana – Lettera 22 e Atlante 22) 7- World Music. Dalla Costa d'Avorio l'album acustico di Tiken Jah Fakoly (Marcello Lorrai)

Dean is halfway around the world at the World Social Forum talking liberation theology, so this week we're bringing you one from the archives. This conversation still seems timely given the new round of He Gets Us ads at the super bowl.This week, Josiah Daniels has joined us from the frontlines of the culture war, where he's been reporting on the He Gets Us campaign for Sojourners. In this episode, we talk about the "elite capture" of Jesus, dark money, and the conservative Christian PR machine. Follow Josiah here: @josiah_RdanielsRead Josiah's piece here: https://sojo.net/articles/what-he-gets-us-ads-get-wrong-about-jesusListen to Josiah talk about this on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2023/02/11/1156344092/behind-the-he-gets-us-ads-for-jesus-airing-during-the-super-bowl Thanks to our monthly supporters CR Rowell-Jore jelly Matthew Ospina Lyn AD Jansen Joe Strik Katie Chepulis Terrence Holland Keenan Dolan Ramona Riley Jane De Las Casas Theo Jack Molly Grisham Laura caitlin Brittyn James Thomas Thomas Finley Matthew Joseph Marx TheAllTomato Sanjay Kumarendran steve morley Jessica C Matt Lori Petrie Mark Vinzani Michael Daniels Stacy's Mom Craig Conrad Larson Kamran Mirza Jason Bartholomew Cooper Elizabeth Dale Ashton Adams Michael McGarry Davis Roberts Clarke Matthew Klippenstein Kevin Ethan Milich Philip Nelson Ribs Michael Lee Rodolfo Urquieta Cortes James Thomas Mark De La Paz Lea Mae Rice ChrisJ Gill Erik Mohr Joe Kruse illi Robert Shine Kurt XxXJudasdidnothingwrongXxX Maxwell Lorena Rivera Soren Harward Christian Noakes David Wadstrup Óscar John Salcedo Austin Gallyer Harrison g Randall Katie Marascio Elias Jacob D Francisco Herrera Michael Dimitras Jacob S Leigh Elliot Tyler Adair Catherine Harrison Zachary Elicker Kasey Erin Archambeault Mikegrapes Kate Alexander Calderon Alejandro Kritzlof Caleb Strom Shandra Benito Andrew McIntosh Peter Shaw Kerrick Fanning Josh Johnson Jonathan Taylor Jennifer Kunze Damon Pitiroi Yroffeiriad Matt Sandra Zadkovic Stephanie Heifner Patrick Sweeney Felicia Aaron Morrison lexiiii Leslie Rodriguez Sarah Clark Timothy Trout Kinsey Favre Name Colm Moran Stewart Thomas Lonnie Smith Brendan Fong Kylie Riley Darren Young Josh Kerley koalatee Tim Luschen Elizabeth Davis Lee Ketch Austin Cyphersmith Ashton Sims Fin Carter Ryan Euverman Tristan Turner Emily Linzi Stahlecker Matthew Alhonte John Samson Fellows alex zarecki rob Kathryn Bain Stephen Machuga zane Collin Majors Victor Williams Daniel Saunders Andrew Brian Nowak erol delos santos Aaron Forbis-Stokes Josh Strassman Cal Kielhold Luke Stocking Sara Trey Brian S. Ryan Brady drew k Matthew Darmour-Paul saheemax Adam Burke Zambedos Kevin Hernandez Wilden Dannenberg Evan Ernst jessica frances Tucker Clyle Christopher RayAlexander Peter Adourian Dan Meyer Benjamin Pletcher John Mattessich Caleb Cropper-Russel Tristan Greeno Steve Schiroo Robert Clelland Anastasia S Scott Pfeiffer Terry Craghead yames Thaddaeus Groat Elisabeth Wienß Hoss Tripp Fuller Avery Dez V Zane Guevara Ivan Carter Ryan Plas Jofre Jonas Edberg Tom Tilden Jo Jonny Nickname Phil Lembo Matt Roney Stephen McMurtry Andrew Ness James Willard Noj Lucas Costello Dónal Emerson Robert Paquette Arty2000 Amaryah Shaye BreadandRosaries.com Frank Dina Mason Shrader Sabrina Luke Nye David Klassen Matthew Fisher Michael Vanacore Tom Nielsen Elinor Stephenson Max Bridges Joel Garver SibilantStar Devon Bowers Daniel David Erdman Madeleine E Guekguezian Tim Lewis Logan Daniel Daniel Saunders Big Dong Bill Jared Rouse Stanford McConnehey Dianne Boardman klavvin Angela Ben Molyneux-Hetherington Junesong91 Keith Wetzel Nathan Beam, Nazi Destroyer Dillon Moore Nicholas Hurley HJ25 Ibrahím Pedriñán Brando Geoffrey Thompson Some Dude M.N. Brock Barber Geoff Tock Kaya Oakes Ahar Tom Cannell Stephen aka Spike Stonehand Troy Andrews Andy Reinsch J Martel K. Aho Jimmy Melnarik Ian SG Daniel Rogers Caleb Ratzlaff emcanady Molly Toth

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ https://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=7408AVVENIRE PUBBLICIZZA IL 5 PER MILLE A FAVORE DELL'ARCI di Mauro FaverzaniDi nuovo. È successo di nuovo. Non a caso, non per una svista, né per un errore. Bensì deliberatamente, consapevolmente, pervicacemente. Il quotidiano della Cei, Avvenire, che ama definirsi genericamente «di ispirazione cattolica», quasi la sua non fosse sequela, apostolato, testimonianza, missione, bensì un tenue sentimento, un timido stato d'animo, un'intuizione senza impegno, dallo scorso 3 maggio ha ripreso a pubblicare in prima pagina, come manchette, accanto alla testata, a destra ed a sinistra, quindi con la massima evidenza possibile, la pubblicità del 5 per mille a favore dell'Arci.Era già capitato l'anno scorso e già qui, con un articolo, evidenziammo l'anomalia: con tutte le associazioni e le realtà cattoliche benemerite, cui invitare i lettori a destinare il 5 per mille, sponsorizzare proprio l'Arci ha dell'incredibile. E proprio in quell'articolo ne sintetizzammo i motivi, ripercorrendo la storia di quest'organizzazione impregnata ancora oggi di Sinistra col pugno chiuso, di immigrazionismo spinto, di ideologia Lgbtqa+, di genderismo fatto di schwa e asterischi per Statuto e poi ancora di aborto, di suicidio assistito, di eutanasia, stracciando così pagine e pagine di Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica, infischiandosene della sua Dottrina con una foga che non fa certo rima con "accoglienza" dei valori altrui, con "ascolto" di chi solo la pensi diversamente, con un autentico "rispetto" di tutte le posizioni.L'Arci ne ha per tutti coloro che non cantino col (suo) coro: sul suo sito, bolla senza mezzi termini e senza appello il governo Meloni d'esser «a trazione post-fascista», «pericoloso per la nostra Costituzione e per la nostra democrazia», si scaglia contro il decreto «anti-rave», monopolizza il 25 aprile, promuove la «Giornata internazionale della visibilità transgender» con tanto di «Carriera Alias» nelle scuole e via elencando.L'ARCIGAYDel passato l'Arci non rinnega nulla, anzi: anche nell'ultima redazione dello Statuto, approvata al XVIII Congresso nazionale del dicembre 2022, ribadisce di rappresentare «la continuità storica e politica» dell'«Associazione Ricreativa Culturale Italiana delle origini, fondata a Firenze il 26 maggio 1957», quella che affondava le proprie radici nel Pci, nel Psi e nella Cgil, come evidenziato da Vincenzo Santangelo, ricercatore presso l'Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea, nel suo libro Le Muse del popolo.Nell'alveo dell'Arci sorse il 9 dicembre 1980 l'Arcigay, voluto da un sacerdote omosessuale, un teologo della liberazione sospeso a divinis, don Marco Bisceglia (riammesso nella Chiesa solo poco prima di morire, malato di Aids, dopo la supplica da lui inviata alla Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, supplica in cui si pentì di quelli che chiamò «i miei errori e traviamenti»). Con lui collaborò a quest'avventura anche un allora giovane obiettore di coscienza in servizio civile, Nicola Vendola detto Nichi, che poi divenne suo convivente. Con la sua adesione al World Social Forum, l'Arci ha fatto sue le bandiere dell'antagonismo e della «globalizzazione alternativa» terzomondista, ribadendo la propria natura «antiliberista» ed «antimperialista».Insomma, ce n'è abbastanza per indurre chi si dichiari cattolico a prender le distanze da posizioni tanto estremizzate e tanto lontane dal proprio credo. Anche quando si tratti di contratti pubblicitari, specie quando i messaggi contrastino con i propri ideali (ammesso che contrastino davvero)...Perché a Vespasiano, che sentenzia «pecunia non olet» («il denaro non puzza»), risponde Orazio, che argomenta «Est modus in rebus» («v'è una misura nelle cose») ed aggiunge: «Sunt certi denique fines, Quos ultra citraque nequit consistere rectum» («Vi sono determinati confini, al di là e al di qua dei quali non può esservi ciò ch'è giusto»). Allora, perché insistere, un anno dopo, riproponendo la medesima pubblicità a scapito delle realtà cattoliche, che più e meglio l'avrebbero meritata? Allora è un vizio, verrebbe da commentare...Esattamente. Come conferma il Catechismo.AVERSIO A DEO, CONVERSIO AD CREATURASSecondo San Tommaso d'Aquino, infatti, il peccato è «aversio a Deo» ovvero allontanamento cosciente e volontario da Dio, da Colui che infonde l'essere e la vita, aderendo viceversa alle creature, al mondo («conversio ad creaturas»). Coincide con quanto recepito nel Catechismo della Chiesa cattolica, che, al n. 1849, definisce il «peccato» come «una mancanza contro la ragione, la verità, la retta coscienza; è una trasgressione in ordine all'amore vero, verso Dio e verso il prossimo». Richiamando Sant'Agostino - e lo stesso San Tommaso, non a caso citato - bolla il peccato come «una parola, un atto o un desiderio contrari alla Legge eterna».Ora, promuovere pubblicamente chi sostenga aborto, eutanasia e tutto quanto sopra richiamato allontana indubbiamente da Dio sé stessi ed, ahimè, anche il prossimo, essendo manifestamente contrario alla Legge eterna.Il peccato inizia come seduzione e, specie quando ripetuto, diviene schiavitù. Come scrive ancora il Catechismo al n. 1876, «la ripetizione dei peccati, anche veniali, genera i vizi». Ed ecco, dunque, per quale motivo non appaia né sbagliato, né esagerato ritenere un «vizio» la promozione di ideologie contrarie alla fede, alimentando la confusione tra credenti e non. Nelle sue parole di commiato, Marco Tarquinio, che ha recentemente lasciato la direzione di Avvenire al collega Marco Girardo, ha scritto d'aver voluto «offrire a tutti un'informazione sempre limpida e libera, ancorata ai grandi valori cristiani e civili del nostro umanesimo». Certamente la scelta degli inserzionisti non è stata oculata, né coerente: lascia anzi una brutta eredità ed una pesante ipoteca sulla linea editoriale del giornale della Cei, linea che sarebbe bene a questo punto chiarire: infatti, «nessun servo può servire a due padroni: o odierà l'uno e amerà l'altro oppure si affezionerà all'uno e disprezzerà l'altro. Non potete servire a Dio e a mammona» (Lc 16, 13).

“A well thought out estate plan is an act of love for yourself and your beneficiaries”. So says my guest Loulena Miles. In our conversation we cover the basics of estate planning, and the different main documents that are involved in an estate plan. We talk about how to refresh an estate plan and the hazards of do-it-yourself estate planning. We also spend some time talking about digital assets, and the importance of creating an advanced medical healthcare directive and thinking clearly about end of life care and beyond.This conversation was originally recorded as a live Zoom presentation to a small audience and Loulena provided 3 documents to accompany her talk. The documents are available by clicking on the links below and I encourage you to download and/or print item #2, the Podcast Handout, and have it available as you listen to the talk.  Main Presentation Slides (simple)Podcast Handout (detailed)Biggest Mistakes People Make With Their Wills (WSJ - 2/16/2023)Loulena Miles has been practicing law as a licensed California Attorney since 2003. She began her career in public policy in Washington DC working for the Alliance for Nuclear Accountability. Following completion of her law degree, graduating in the top of her class at Golden Gate University, she worked as the Staff Attorney at Tri-Valley CAREs practicing environmental law and public policy. She then worked in private practice as an Associate Attorney at Adams, Broadwell, Joseph and Cardozo in South San Francisco with a focus on administrative law. Most recently, before forming Miles and Torres Associates, Loulena assisted senior citizens with legal issues including maintaining housing, healthcare and financial solvency. She is a Strauss Scholar and a New Voices Ford Foundation Fellow. She presented at the United Nations in New York and Geneva and the World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. She holds a certification in conflict resolution and mediation. She was awarded Witkin and Cali awards for top academic performance in Wills and Trusts, Criminal Law, Legal Research and Writing, Negotiations and Toxics Law and Policy. Loulena Miles is a member of East Bay Trust and Estate Lawyers and is currently serving on the nonprofit board of Tri-Valley CAREs.

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=7080AVVENIRE RECLAMIZZA L'ARCI IN PRIMA PAGINA di Mauro FaverzaniA dir poco stupisce la manchette, che da alcuni giorni campeggia alla destra ed alla sinistra della testata del quotidiano Avvenire, il giornale della Conferenza episcopale italiana: reclamizza l'Arci ed il suo 5×1000. Non il 5×1000, dunque, della Caritas o di qualsiasi altra sigla o realtà cattolica, bensì quello di un'organizzazione dichiaratamente di Sinistra, fin dalle origini. La stessa organizzazione, che, sul proprio sito, ribadisce, tra l'altro, non solo immigrazionismo spinto ed inclusione indiscriminata, bensì anche il suo sostegno a suicidio assistito ed eutanasia, nonché all'ideologia Lgbt. L'Arci include quella per il «fine vita» tra le «battaglie di diritto» e ritiene urgente «restituire dignità alla morte», richiamando «a responsabilità la politica rispetto ad un'azione legislativa a cui a lungo si è sottratta», ancorandosi «al principio di laicità dello Stato», che «sgombri il campo da derive oscurantiste o da facili strumentalizzazioni». Una presa di posizione in aperta contrapposizione al Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica, che viceversa al n. 2277 definisce con chiarezza l'eutanasia «moralmente inaccettabile» e boccia anche qualsiasi «azione oppure omissione, che, da sé o intenzionalmente», provochi «la morte allo scopo di porre fine al dolore», essendo ciò «gravemente» contrario «alla dignità della persona umana e al rispetto del Dio vivente, suo Creatore. L'errore di giudizio, nel quale si può essere incorsi in buona fede, non muta la natura di quest'atto omicida, sempre da condannare e da escludere».COSA HANNO DI CATTOLICO LE BATTAGLIE DELL'ARCI?Non di meno totalmente al di fuori dall'orbita cattolica si pone anche l'altra campagna lanciata dall'Arci nazionale, campagna dal titolo «Sii ciò che sei, per un mondo gender inclusive» e che ha coinvolto già nel 2020 lo stesso sistema di adesione: sulle tessere è stata data la possibilità di «apporre un'identità alias. I nuov* soc* potranno infatti scegliere, in alternativa a nome e cognome, l'indicazione del codice fiscale sulla loro tessera. Inoltre, potranno rendere facoltativa l'indicazione del loro genere sulla domanda di iscrizione». Non a caso l'Arci si vanta di aver sollecitato «più volte il Parlamento ad approvare al più presto la proposta di legge contro l'omobitransfobia», in una parola il famigerato ddl Zan, che si scontra frontalmente con il Catechismo della Chiesa Cattolica al n. 2357, dove, «appoggiandosi sulla Sacra Scrittura», si designano le «relazioni omosessuali come gravi depravazioni» e «gli atti di omosessualità» come «intrinsecamente disordinati», nonché «contrari alla legge naturale», ciò per cui «in nessun caso possono essere approvati». Figuriamoci promossi, consigliati ed incentivati!Allora esiste un corto circuito tra la Dottrina cattolica e le convinzioni di organizzazioni quali l'Arci, corto circuito che non solo rende improponibile, bensì anche irricevibile la sua pubblicità su di un organo di stampa, che si voglia «di ispirazione cattolica» come Avvenire. Ciò, tenendo conto del presente, ma tenendo conto anche della storia dell'Arci: l'Associazione Ricreativa e Culturale Italiana (questo, per esteso, il significato attuale dell'acronimo Arci) nacque nel 1957 nell'alveo della Sinistra comunista. Vincenzo Santangelo, ricercatore presso l'Istituto piemontese per la storia della Resistenza e della società contemporanea, nel suo libro Le Muse del popolo, ne precisa le componenti politiche («il Pci, il Psi, la Cgil»), nonché la «vigorosa contrapposizione nei confronti di tutti quegli organismi assimilabili allo Stato o alle grandi imprese», compresi i Dopolavoro ed i Cral aziendali. Una forza, dunque, dichiaratamente antisistema ed anticapitalista. Di quella storia, l'Arci di oggi non rinnega alcunché, anzi è vero l'opposto: lo Statuto, approvato il 14 giugno 2014, precisa già nella premessa come essa rappresenti e voglia rappresentare «la continuità storica e politica con l'Arci delle origini fondata a Firenze il 26 maggio 1957».L'ARCIGAY VOLUTA DA UN SACERDOTE OMOSESSUALEIl 9 dicembre 1980, nel suo alveo, si costituì l'Arcigay. Fu voluta da un sacerdote omosessuale, un teologo della liberazione sospeso a divinis, don Marco Bisceglia (riammesso nella Chiesa solo poco prima di morire, malato di Aids, dopo la supplica da lui inviata alla Congregazione per la Dottrina della Fede, supplica in cui si pentì di quelli che chiamò «i miei errori e traviamenti»). Con lui collaborò a quest'avventura anche un allora giovane obiettore di coscienza in servizio civile presso l'Arci, Nicola Vendola detto Nichi, che poi divenne suo convivente, già presidente di Sinistra Ecologia Libertà dal 2010 al 2016. Non a caso, l'Arci, ha promosso, tra le altre, anche la campagna Giàfamiglia, che, a dispetto del nome, puntava al riconoscimento delle "nozze" gay.Con la sua adesione al World Social Forum, l'Arci ha sostenuto, inoltre, l'antagonismo e la «globalizzazione alternativa» terzomondista, ribadendo la sua natura «antiliberista» ed «antimperialista», categorie che evidentemente si cerca di far sembrare obsolete più di quanto in realtà, per taluni, non siano.Evidente l'incompatibilità tra la Dottrina cattolica e le ideologie, di cui l'Arci si è fatta portavoce dalla fondazione ad oggi. Proprio per questo fa quanto meno specie che il giornale della Cei, Avvenire, proponga la pubblicità dell'Arci, oltre tutto in bella evidenza in prima pagina, accanto alla testata. Un "idillio" tutt'altro che estemporaneo, dato che la stessa Arci, sul proprio sito ufficiale, rimanda addirittura, con tanto di link, ad un articolo pubblicato sul quotidiano Avvenire lo scorso 14 luglio a proposito delle comunità energetiche. Ciò non basta per rendere organica e strutturale l'"intesa" tra il quotidiano e la sigla dichiaratamente di Sinistra, certo, ma è nota l'espressione di Agatha Christie: «Un indizio è un indizio, due indizi sono una coincidenza, ma tre indizi fanno una prova». Ed è un fatto che le posizioni assunte dal giornale dei Vescovi siano state più volte - e su temi alquanto delicati - opinabili e contestate, su basi solide e concrete, da esponenti e sensibilità significative del mondo cattolico.Nota di BastaBugie: Andrea Zambrano nell'articolo seguente dal titolo "Famiglie normali: Avvenire strizza l'occhio ai conviventi" racconta che all'incontro delle famiglie col Papa che c'è stato un mese fa c'è anche una testimonianza di una coppia di conviventi che dopo tre figli convolerà a nozze. Avvenire esulta e parte con la normalizzazione della convivenza lasciando intendere che è solo un problema di accoglienza della Chiesa.Ecco l'articolo completo pubblicato su La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana il 25 giugno 2022:Qualcuno spieghi a Luciano Moia e ai redattori di Avvenire la differenza che c'è tra una cosa normale e una cosa comune, perché non sono sinonimi. Presentare la convivenza di una coppia con figli come una nuova normalità è un'operazione piuttosto scorretta. Limitarsi invece a fotografare una realtà che è ormai comune, come quella di chi decide di non sposarsi, è tutt'altra cosa.L'incontro delle famiglie con il Papa ha visto protagoniste famiglie come testimoni di una vita cristiana donata, c'erano anche - commossi e belli come chi sa di essere fronte alla santità - i genitori di Chiara Corbella, che hanno presentato a Papa Francesco la figura di sposa e di madre della Serva di Dio che morì rinunciando alle cure, per non sottoporre il figlio in grembo alle ricadute di una terapia invasiva per lui. Ma nel parterre delle coppie presentate, figurava anche una coppia di conviventi che tra pochi mesi convolerà a nozze.Per carità, nulla da disquisire sulla Grazia che fa capolino nel percorso tortuoso e difficile che può portare un uomo e una donna a scegliere la strada del matrimonio dopo tre figli e molti anni di convivenza, ma l'approccio di Avvenire è ormai quello di chi vuole stupire presentando normali certe situazioni di irregolarità per far passare poi sotto traccia un concetto preciso.Il concetto che passa è che la convivenza, in fondo, sia una diversa normalità, come riporta il titolo dell'articolo, con quelle virgolette messe lì proprio per strizzare l'occhio al lettore: Accoglienza, tradimenti e perdono. Il festival delle coppie "normali". In fondo, il senso di tutto l'articolo è quello che non esistano famiglie esemplari o famiglie modello perché "nessuno lo è".Invece è il modello che ci fa seguaci di un progetto di vita che ci affascina. Se non ci sono modelli o esempi, per quale motivo si mette su famiglia con un matrimonio che si spera solido e fecondo? Tanto vale continuare a convivere. Chiara Corbella è un modello e dirlo, soprattutto in un incontro per le famiglie, non è affatto un peccato. Anzi, forse questi incontri hanno senso se si indicano dei modelli, di cui tutti abbiamo bisogno, i conviventi per convertirsi e gli sposati per confermarsi. Ma di questo è tabù parlare perché oggi va di moda la liquidità anche degli affetti quindi nessuno è modello.Può capitare quindi che, essendo nessuno un modello, si prenda anche la testimonianza di una coppia che famiglia non è, ma venga "elevata" a famiglia in pectore in virtù di una promessa che però è futura.Il loro racconto, su cui il quotidiano dei vescovi si dilunga parecchio rispetto al resto delle altre storie, è rivelatore di un cammino, ma anche di un reclamo, di quelli che piacciono tanto a Moia.

During this episode of Why Change? co-hosts Rachael and Jeff share how they connected two years ago. Jeff interviews Dan Baron Cohen, live from the World Alliance for Arts Education's Virtual World Summit, to discuss his work in theatre-based eco-pedagogy. Rachael and Jeff break down the interview through the lens of “creative justice.” In this episode you'll learn: About the concept of ‘good living' and how it relates to arts-based learning; How international movement building and local arts and cultural education practices are connected; and Why we need a new way to discuss justice-oriented, youth-led creative work. ABOUT DAN BARON COHEN: A community performance educator and eco-cultural activist of Welsh-Quebecois origin, living in the Brazilian Amazonian city of Marabá. After doctoral research in Oxford University, Dan collaborated with young people in post-industrial and conflicted communities at risk in northern England, South Wales and the North of Ireland. In 1998, a visiting professorship launched collaborations with landless, indigenous, trade-union and university communities across Brazil. His past 24 years have been dedicated to developing 'transformance pedagogies' in African, Asian, American and European communities. Since 2008, Dan has developed cultural action, citizen security, solar power, literacy circles and medicinal plant gardens in the Afro-Indigenous community of Cabelo Seco, recycling awards into scholarships for nurturing young performance education activists and collectives. Dan contributed to the Latin America Arts for Transformation Network and World Social Forum (2001-12) and was president of the International Drama-Education Association and World Alliance for Arts Education (2006-10). This episode of Why Change? A Podcast for the Creative Generation was powered by Creative Generation. Produced and Edited by Daniel Stanley. For more information on this episode and Creative Generation please visit and follow us on social media @Campaign4GenC --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/whychange/support

Old yet new: an early Indigo Radio show from October 2016. Chris and Lauren discuss the solidarity between Black Lives Matter, Palestine, and Standing Rock. Chris and Lauren reflect on the stories and histories that were not taught or told to them. They speak with Professor Yakov Rabkin of the University of Montreal who they met at the World Social Forum.

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In From the Tricontinental to the Global South: Race, Radicalism, and Transnational Solidarity (Duke UP, 2018), Anne Garland Mahler traces the history and intellectual legacy of the understudied global justice movement called the Tricontinental—an alliance of liberation struggles from eighty-two countries, founded in Havana in 1966. Focusing on racial violence and inequality, the Tricontinental's critique of global capitalist exploitation has influenced historical radical thought, contemporary social movements such as the World Social Forum and Black Lives Matter, and a Global South political imaginary. The movement's discourse, which circulated in four languages, also found its way into radical artistic practices, like Cuban revolutionary film and Nuyorican literature. While recent social movements have revived Tricontinentalism's ideologies and aesthetics, they have largely abandoned its roots in black internationalism and its contribution to a global struggle for racial justice. In response to this fractured appropriation of Tricontinentalism, Mahler ultimately argues that a renewed engagement with black internationalist thought could be vital to the future of transnational political resistance. Sharika Crawford is an associate professor of history at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis and the author of The Last Turtlemen of the Caribbean: Waterscapes of Labor, Conservation, and Boundary Making (University of North Carolina Press, 2020). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tarek Chatila left Beirut in the midst of the Lebanese Civil War. Now living in Montreal, he is a MENA specialist and a political pundit. Aside from his work with Amnesty International Canada, he has spoken at the World Social Forum about the conditions in Egyptian prisons and researched the Syrian civil war for the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies. He visits the podcast to discuss the situation in Lebanon and to give his views on various geo-political topics.Ericzone Podcast: Episode 27 (En)July 26th 2020 Tarek Chatila Ericzone Podcast is available on BaladoQuebec.com. For Google Play Music users, thank you very much for subscribing. The podcast is also available on Itunes et Stitcher. www.ericzone.comwww.facebook.com/ericzonecomwww.facebook.com/ericzonepodcastwww.instagram.com/ericzonecomwww.ericzone.wordpress.comwww.twitter.com/ericzonecom

Valentine Special! We talk to activist couple Njoki Njehu and Soren Ambrose about how they met, balancing marriage & activism and what they have learned about fighting inequality over the last quarter of a century. The two met whilst campaigning in the late 90s during the huge protests against the World Bank and the IMF and have been involved in the fight against inequality ever since. Njoki is the pan-Africa coordinator of the Fight Inequality Alliance and leads the Daughters of Mumbi in Kenya who fight for women’s’ land rights. Growing up, together with her mother she worked closely with Wangari Maathai, the Nobel Prize winning environmentalist, helping her fight back against the oppression of the Kenyan government. Together with Soren she was one of the leaders of the Fifty Years is Enough campaign to abolish the World Bank and the IMFSoren is the Head of Policy at Action Aid. Together with Njoki, he was among the pioneers of the World Social Forum, held to challenge Davos. He was a key player in the 50 Years is Enough campaign. They give us a feel for the huge protests against the World Bank and the IMF in 1999-2001 and the hard work that went into building such a successful global coalition- bringing together church groups, unions, environmentalists and anarchists. The reflect on the life of activists in Kenya under the oppressive regime of President Moi. They find hope in abundance in today’s activism but encourage todays millennial activists to work hard to learn from history too. As ever, do subscribe to the podcast, and do share with your friends and your family! Email us your ideas, suggestions and feedback to equals@oxfam.org

"I believe that there is no other way than linking social and environmental issues to build our society" (Encyclical Letter Laudato Si) François from MRJC shares his experiences of being part of the World Social Forum and why he thinks, that especially for us as youth movements, this quote by Pope Francis is so important. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/HowAboutYOUth/message

GR - An interview with Eric Toussaint of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM), discussing the establishment of a committee to audit Greece's public debt, which he will be a part of. Greek voiceover. Aired March 26-April 1, 2015.

EN - An interview with Eric Toussaint of the Committee for the Abolition of Third World Debt (CADTM), discussing the establishment of a committee to audit Greece's public debt, which he will be a part of. In English. Aired March 26-April 1, 2015.

Do I stay or do I go? After the election of Trump in 2016, there were a lot of memes and stories going around social media about why Americans should become Canadians.  Some of  that was real, and some of it was the Canadian tendency to pat ourselves on the back when we compare ourselves to the US. Regardless, many of us have friends who asked the same thing, so we know  there were some Americans who live in Canada who breathed a sigh of relief that they were up here.  But, attachment and sentiment for one's country is not a straightforward thing. Whether to stay or go is a question that some progressive Americans have asked themselves since November 8, 2016, and they continue to ask it. “Are you going to stay or go back home?” is a question rabble podcast exec producer Victoria Fenner asked Sophia Reuss even before the election happened.  Victoria met Sophia at the World Social Forum when it was held Montreal in August of that year, just a few months before the election. An American who grew up in Washington, DC, Sophia had just finished up as a rabble intern after graduating from McGill.  She was volunteering to help produce ‘Ears on the Earth‘, a daily rabble podcast from the Forum.  You can hear one of Sophia's stories here. At the time of the World Social Forum, not many people were seriously considering the possibility that Trump could win. And then, the unthinkable happened.  Sophia could have stayed in Canada, but ultimately, she decided that she needed to be back home. She moved back to the US last year. She currently lives in Brooklyn, and works at the Prisoner Reentry Institute, an organization at the City University of New York. She also is continuing her work with rabble as an assistant editor. Today on rabble radio, Sophia shares her thoughts about why she decided to go back home. Like this podcast? rabble is reader/listener supported journalism.

Una donna alla guida della CIA, un'isola croata guidata solo da donne. Come tenere l'attenzione del pubblico viste le distrazioni da smartphone? Di Maio ha incontrato la stampa estera e un ascoltatore segue il World Social Forum in Brasile.

On this episode, Laura Chandler dives into the Sacred Stream archives for a 2015 interview with homeopath Lori Nairne, who died unexpectedly this past August. In this talk, Lori explains how homeopathy works and focuses on the many uses of the popular remedy, Arnica. Also on this episode is an excerpt from a homeopathy class Lori taught at the Sacred Stream in which Lori looks at remedies for anxiety. And Isa Gucciardi stops by the studio to talk a little about Lori and some of what is coming up at the Sacred Stream Center in 2018. Lori Nairne was a homeopath, emergency room nurse, social justice activist, and adjunct instructor at the Sacred Stream. Lori’s work as a teacher and homeopath helped many people. She empowered them to be active participants in their own healing and not just follow the western medical model without question. She also helped many people with her over 40 years of work as a social justice activist. Among the many projects she helped found or participated in are Legal Action for Women, PROStitutes Collective, the Haiti Action Committee, Wages for Housework Campaign, Queer Strike, and Global Women’s Strike. She was also part of delegations to the 1977 National Women’s Conference in Houston, the UN Decade for Women in Nairobi in 1985, and Beijing in 1995, and the World Social Forum in Caracas in 2006. This episode’s featured artist is The Allure and their debut album, Kiss. Laura Chandler teamed with producer and composer Walter Liskiewicz (Waldino) to create this chill jazz breakthrough record. It met with rave reviews upon its release and reached the top fifty on Indie SmoothJazz charts.

In episode #163 of Talking Radical Radio (April 13, 2016), I speak with Sarah Sultani and Katia Stuart-Gagnon. They are members of the organizing collective that is bringing the World Social Forum – the largest gathering of civil society and social movements on the planet – to Montreal from August 9 to 14, 2016. They speak with me about the WSF and about the process of bringing it to Montreal. For a more detailed description of this episode, go here: http://talkingradical.ca/2016/04/13/trr-wsf_2016_montreal/

What a year it was. Coming off of the maddening, disappointing and very scary U.S. election, it's too easy to look back and wish that we could have just fast forwarded from December 31, 2015 right to January 1, 2017. But that's not the whole story. In many ways it was also a really good year. Admittedly, we have to work a little harder to lift our spirits in this holiday season than in other years. But we know that rabble listeners and readers know that these things happen in cycles. Better days are ahead. Lots of work for us to do in the new year to help restore this planet to health and happiness. But for now, take a break and have a listen to some of our faves. 1.) Ears on the Earth – an excerpt from one of five daily programs we did from the World Social Forum. The excerpt you just heard was our last program, which focused on the Leap Manifesto. Thanks to rabble radio team members David Kattenburg, Sophia Reuss, Campbell McClintock and Greg MacDougall who did a fabulous job running all over Montreal gathering stories to hit some pretty tight deadlines on some of the hottest days of the year. Just one example of the kind of projects we want to do more of in 2017.   We talked about media democracy, explained what the World Social Forum was about, talked about releasing the corporate stranglehold, new types of storytelling and why The LEAP Manifesto is important enough to deserve its own program. 2.) We had a radio drama this year. The Strange Wax Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes was a six part steampunk adventure involving retro scientific gadgetry, inventor Nicola Tesla and a mystery to be solved. It was produced by Wayne MacPhail for HarrowsmithNow. And Harrowsmith invited us to run the series on the rabble podcast network. 3.) And final excerpt today is to help you start the new year with some quiet contemplation about what matters and what doesn't. Perspective is a wonderful thing, so here is an excerpt from Drolkar McCallum on finding happiness, Buddhism and meditation. She talks to David Peck, host and producer of the podcast Face2Face.  You can see the full list of Victoria's podcast picks here.  There are many more great podcasts from the year that was. We wish we could list them all. Thanks from all of us at rabble.ca to all the podcasters of the rabble podcast network for sharing their hard work and perspectives on social change.   Like this podcast? rabble is reader/listener supported journalism.

Since it's harvest season, what better time to take a look at farming. And sadly, it's not the family farm we're going to be talking about. There are still some family farms left, and still some independent farmers who are making a living for themselves adopting new forms of sustainable agriculture. But despite the growth of organics, artisan food products and people who are adopting farming practices that are kind to the land, the corporations continue to march across the countryside. We'll hear from a few people today who can tell us what's wrong with that. 1.) Pat Mooney  is one of Canada's “go to” people for his perspective on technology, biodiversity, intellectual property as it relates to our food supply, and corporate control of agriculture. His organization, The ETC group, works to address social inequalities affecting the poorest people in the world especially relating to food and agriculture. He spoke at the World Social Forum in August. Dave Kattenburg edited and produced this for his online magazine The Green Planet Monitor and shared it with rabble radio. 2.)  Gabriel Allahdua, a migrant farmworker and one of the organizers of Justicia, a group which demands justice for migrant farm workers. There are a lot fewer jobs in agriculture than there used to be because of technology. But there is still the need for people. And as in all industries, big farming needs a workforce. Agricultural work means long hours and working conditions. It's hard work, low paid and often dangerous. This year marks the 50th anniversary of the seasonal farm workers program, set up by the Pearson Government in 1966. It's not a program we want to be especially proud of. This interview is an excerpt of a longer program by Scott Neigh of Talking Radical Radio.  3.) Lois Ross is one of our newer columnists at rabble.ca. She's a communications specialist, writer, and editor, living in Ottawa.  She writes for rabble about issues that are key to food production here in Canada as well as internationally. She has a background in many different areas and could have done her column on labour, or international development or a whole bunch of other topics. She talks about why agriculture is important for rural and urban people.  You can read her columns here.

Producer/Host: Amy Browne Studio Engineer: Joel Mann Today on “Maine Currents” we focus on ways local people are plugging into larger movements to create positive change. Guests Tracey Hair and Larry Dansinger report back from their trip to the World Social Forum in Canada this summer, we talk about the “End Violence Together” rally and march and events marking the anniversary of the Occupy movement in Bangor this coming weekend, as well as last weekend’s Wabanaki Solidarity with Standing Rock rally, and we invite listeners to call in with question and with their own stories of working to create positive change. Guests: Tracey Hair started working at HOME Inc in 12 years ago. For a brief time she worked in partnership with HOME at a homeless charity located in Harlem. She lived and worked in Harlem doing street outreach, handing out sandwiches and serving food from a pop up food pantry. In addition to street outreach, Tracey taught basic computer skills to undocumented and low-income women in the Bronx. She have since returned to HOME Inc here in Orland where she currently serves as Acting Director. In addition to working with homeless people, Tracey has spent time advocating for Immigration Rights for same sex couples and is also a member of the Board of St Francis Community / Mandala Farm where she lived and worked for two years. Mandala Farm is a homeless shelter where homeless people live and work together in community. FMI: www.homemmausa.org/ Larry Dansinger used to work with Resources for Organizing and Social Change and still volunteers with the group. Besides attending the most recent World Social Forum this summer in Montreal, Larry helped to organize a Social Forum here in Maine in 2006 and hopes there will be another in Maine soon. Larry was also active in the Occupy Bangor’s camp next to the Bangor Public Library in 2011 and is helping to plan a 5th anniversary event there on Saturday 9/17/16, 10-11:30 am (followed by a potluck) at the park next to the Bangor Public Library. FMI: www.facebook.com/OccupyBangor/?fref=ts Mary Ellen Quinn is the Co-coordinator of Pax Christi Maine and one of the organizers of the “End Violence Together” rally and march that will be taking place in Bangor on Saturday, 9/17/16 from 1-4pm at West Market Square (rain location: Columbia Street Church). FMI: www.facebook.com/events/1031435066943636/ The post Maine Currents 9/14/16 first appeared on WERU 89.9 FM Blue Hill, Maine Local News and Public Affairs Archives.

There were hundreds of panel discussions at the World Social Forum. The hard thing was to make a choice which one to go to. There weren't a lot of descriptions in the handbook sometimes, so often we just had to pick one and see how it all turned out. You never knew what you were going to get.   And there were so many interviews and recordings that we weren't able to fit in to Ears on the Earth, our daily podcast during the Forum. In weeks to come, we'll bring you more of the sounds, conversations and panels that we gathered.  Today, two more. 1) Joseph Wawatie is an Algonquin Elder from Barriere Lake in western Quebec. In 2012, he was arrested for protesting logging on his traditional territory — land which remains unceded territory. He was part of a panel discussion at the World Social Forum called Indigenous Peoples' Struggles and Resistance. He speaks of his traditional life in the bush, and the challenges his nation faces. 2) Norman Stockwell, publisher of The Progressive: rabble radio host and rabble podcast network exec producer Victoria Fenner talked to Norman about the role of alternative media in this fractitious, extraordinary presidential election campaign that's happening right now. Bernie Sanders was a great choice for president. Hillary Clinton — well, opinion is mixed on that. Yet, if they don't want Donald Trump for president, Hillary's it. So what's a progressive to do when there are no good alternatives? 3) Looking ahead — we have a new podcast on the rpn. Who is Thaddeus Barnes and why do you need to hunt for his Strange Copper Cylinders.  With rabble podcast network and co-founder Wayne MacPhail, who is also now a dramatist, director and audio playwright. Find out more on Harrowsmith Now!

This summer, downtown Montreal hosted the 13th annual World Social Forum with social movements, advocacy campaigns and NGOs from around the world meeting for 6 days of networking, teach-ins and solidarity-building events. But in the lead up to the event, hundreds of global activists were denied visas by the Canadian government leading to lower-than-anticipated attendance at the Forum. The 2016 WSF failed to meet it's anticipated participation level of 50,000 attendees. The Forum was also widely ignored by Canada's mainstream media, leaving most Canadians in the dark about the nation's role in hosting a major global event. In spite of these issues, many believe that the Forum can be considered a success. To explain why, Ruby Irene Pratka, a Montreal-based journalist specializing in migration and the cultural community, reports on what she observed at the Forum.

Gordon Edwards, President of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility, talks about the focus on nuclear issues at this year's World Social Forum currently underway in Montreal.

A sneak preview of the labor events happening at the World Social Forum next week in Montreal. The post Belabored Podcast #109: Forum for Change, with Nathalie Guay appeared first on Dissent Magazine.

Gordon Edwards explains what the Canadian Network to Abolish Nuclear Weapons hope to accomplish at the upcoming World Social Forum in Montreal in August 2016.

August may seem like a ways away, but for the organizers of the World Social Forum in Montreal in August, time is ticking away. Two years ago in August, the city of Ottawa was the site for a warmup to the World Social Forum. The Peoples' Social Forum  was a huge event. The thing about these kinds of Social Forums is that they are very ambitious. Anybody can propose a workshop, or a discussion group. The result of this is an incredible amount of energy in one place, and lots to talk about and think about. In a lot of ways, Ottawa was a dress rehearsal for the World Social Forum, which will be held in Montreal from August 9-14, 2016. A look back at the Peoples' Social Forum and a look ahead to what's being planned when the world comes to Montreal ..  1)  Earlier this month, Talking Radical Radio did a whole program about the World Social Forum. Here is an excerpt from that program, where host Scott Neigh talks to Sarah Sultani And Katia Stuart-Gagnon.  2)  rabble.ca was there at the People's Social Forum in 2014, doing a podcast every day for rabble radio. Here's are some of the voices, sounds and ideas from Ottawa. 

At World Social Forum in Brazil. Democracy Now. February 5, 2002

Carminda MacLorin, co-coordinator of Montreal's upcoming edition of the World Social Forum

Women and War. At a World Social Forum plenary titled "Wars Against Women, Women Against War," eminent feminists from the global South spoke out against the daily struggles that women face in times of both war and peace. Among them were Booker Prize-winning author Arundhati Roy and Egyptian writer and former political prisoner Nawal el- Saadawi. The post Against the Grain – February 9, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

일촉즉발, 전쟁위기 코리아상황 / 튀니스세계사회포럼(WSF) 참가자들로부터 코리아에 전하는 평화메시지 전아프리카인민혁명당(APRP) 소속, 밥 브라운(미국)의 메시지

Armando De Negri Filho is an epidemiologist and coordinator of the executive committee of the World Social Forum on Health and Social Security. We talked to him about for the need for a comprehensive approach integrating healthcare to other aspects of social protection when he was in Geneva for the World Health Organization’s annual World Health Assembly.

Father Joseph Xavier is member of the Madurai Province, in the south of India, a region with many Dalits, castless people. He has been coordinator of social ministry at the Jesuit Conference of South Asia in Delhi. During that time he was able to mobilize 1500 very poor people to participate in the World Social Forum in Mumbai (2004). On the request of the Archbishop of Orissa, he has been sent to that region to encourage and motivate the people after the attacks, destruction of property, and killings perpetrated by Hindu extremists. He has been invited to the first meeting of the Jesuit Task force on ecology to see what the Jesuit response could be to the ecological crisis, taking into account the desire of General Congregation 35 to consider the right relationship to creation as a fundamental part of our Jesuit Mission today.

Giuseppe Riggio is an Italian Jesuit in formation. During his philosophy studies in Padua he worked with an association serving refugees and those seeking asylum; he organized courses for people interested in knowing more about immigration. Next, as part of his formation, he worked two years in the Social Justice Secretariat at the Jesuit General Curia in Rome. During that time he had the opportunity to attend the World Social Forum in Brazil and was able to spend some time in a community of indigenous people. Presently he is studying theology in Paris in preparation for priestly ordination.

Grajew describes the early planning and growth of the World Social Forum, and explains the core ideals that led to positive changes and strengthened his belief that another world is possible. (September 15, 2007)

The annual World Social Forum is the centerpiece of an international effort to promote globalization based on peace, sustainability, and solidarity. In this audio lecture, Founder Oded Grajew describes the early planning and growth of WSF, and explains the core ideals that led to positive change and strengthened his belief that a better world is possible. https://ssir.org/podcasts/entry/oded_grajew_-_another_world_is_possible

A panel discussion recorded at the World Social Forum in Caracas, Venezuela, featuring Thomas Pinaya, Edgardo Lander, Hena Vargas and Soberto Savio. Recorded by Kim Elliott January 29, 2006.

Hugo Chavez, president of Venezuela addresses the World Social Forum. Produced by Solange Echeveria. The post Bay Native Circle – February 23, 2005 appeared first on KPFA.

War Against Women, Women Against War: A Report Back From the World Social Forum Violence against women manifests in both overt and covert forms: from rape used as a war tactic to women themselves participating in violence. On this edition of Making Contact, we feature three leading feminists: Egyptian sociologist Nawal El Saadawi, activist and author Arundhati Roy, and Saher Saba of the Revolutionary Association of Women in Afghanistan (RAWA, www.rawa.org). They discuss the disproportionate impacts that fundamentalism, colonization, and corporate globalization have on women. They spoke recently at the 2004 World Social Forum in Mumbai, India. -www.radioproject.org The post Making Contact – March 12, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

Arundhati Roy Speaks to the World Social Forum. The post APEX Express – February 19, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

Young Asian American activists talk about their trip to India that brought thousands together to share ideas and organizing efforts at the World Social Forum. And, celebrating 100 years in the US: Korean American award-winning filmmaker Deann Borshay talks about an exhibit at the Oakland Museum that looks at Korean immigration in America. Members of the Korean community also talk about their personnel experiences. Also, it's KPFA's fund-drive time again. Please, show your support of Apex by pledging during the show. Plus music, calendar and more. The post APEX Express – February 5, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

The World Social Forum – which begins on 16 January in Mumbai, India – is a place where tens of thousands of activists, along with civil society movements worldwide come together to share ideas and plans to build a planetary society centered on the human person. Jinee Kim of Just Act, and Victor Menotti of the International Forum on Globalization, both from the San Francsico Bay Area, discuss the importance of the WSF in movement building and social change. Visit The WSF website: www.wsfindia.org The post Terra Verde – January 16, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.

Members of CJWP, an intergenerational alliance of people of Taiwanese, Chinese and Hong Kong heritage, working together in the Bay Area for peace and social justice, talk about their organizing and their upcoming trip to India for the World Social Forum. Also, Weyland Southon talks with Jessica Hagedorn, author of Dream Jungle. The post APEX Express – January 1, 2004 appeared first on KPFA.