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« Je ne veux pas me plaindre, mais j'ai le droit de me défendre.»Le 25 septembre 2017, Yvan Mayeur se retirait de la vie politique. Président du CPAS de 1995 à 2013, bourgmestre de la Ville de Bruxelles de 2013 à 2017, il souhaite aujourd'hui parler de ses réalisations : le sauvetage des hpitaux publics, le piétonnier, les actions sociales, la réforme de la police, la construction de logements, la création d'emplois dans les entreprises...
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Se suele entender por objeción de conciencia la resistencia no violenta al cumplimiento de una norma jurídica -legal o contractual-, con base en las más íntimas, personales e irrenunciables convicciones éticas o religiosas. Su desarrollo jurídico en Colombia ha tenido como punto de referencia principal la jurisprudencia de la Corte Constitucional, aunque pueden identificarse algunas referencias legislativas.
Desde la entrada en vigor de la...
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From Reagan's regular invocation of America as "a city on a hill" to Obama's use of spiritual language in describing social policy, religious rhetoric is a regular part of how candidates communicate with voters. Although the Constitution explicitly forbids a religious test as a qualification to public office, many citizens base their decisions about candidates on their expressed religious beliefs and values. In Religious Rhetoric and American Politics,...
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Local participation is the new democratic imperative. In the United States, three-fourths of all cities have developed opportunities for citizen involvement in strategic planning. The World Bank has invested $85 billion over the last decade to support community participation worldwide. But even as these opportunities have become more popular, many contend that they have also become less connected to actual centers of power and the jurisdictions where...
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This book is a personal account of the daily lives of the people of the frontline of the Palestine / Israel conflict, giving us an insight into the deadly, seemingly never-ending rounds of violence.
Ramzy Baroud tells his father's fascinating story. Driven out of his village to a refugee camp, he took up arms and fought the occupation at the same time raising a family and trying to do the best for his children.
Baroud's vivid and honest...
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La Unión Europea negocia con Estados Unidos un Tratado Transatlántico de Comercio e Inversión (TTIP) a espaldas de la población. Un tratado cuya firma está considerada una prioridad política. A pesar de que el Tratado se ha publicitado como un motor de crecimiento económico, las negociaciones y el contenido del TTIP se han mantenido ocultos hasta que, tras numerosas denuncias y presiones de organizaciones y movimientos sociales, la Comisión...
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El sector eléctrico español es un ejemplo de manual de lo que sucede, y cómo sucede, cuando se deja en manos privadas un sector estratégico. El resultado final es tristemente conocido. los métodos (marco discursivo, argumentos concretos y maniobras) que usaron entonces las elites económicas y políticas, no tanto. Es de interés recordarlos ahora que esas mismas elites pretenden hacer algo equivalente, y de idéntica forma, con otros sectores...
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Chronicles the damage Thomas Friedman's flat wrong, "Flat Earth" ideas have caused to the American economy
As Martin Sieff convincingly argues, Thomas Friedman's prescriptions have played a major role in causing America's economic decline, yet many executives and politicians, including President Obama, still look to him as their guru. Sieff exposes Friedman fallacies on the nature of globalization, the information technology revolution, political...
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Israeli anthropologist and activist Jeff Halper throws a harsh light on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict from the point of view of a critical insider. While the Zionist founders of Israel created a vibrant society, culture and economy, they did so at a high price: Israel could not maintain its exclusive Jewish character without imposing on the country's Palestinian population policies of ethnic cleansing, occupation and discrimination, expressed most...
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Las Falanges Juveniles de Franco fueron un elemento privilegiado de la política de juventud del franquismo en las décadas de 1940 y 1950, cuyo principal objetivo fue la socialización de sus integrantes en el ideario nacional-sindicalista. Creadas en 1942 como la organización juvenil del régimen siempre estuvieron bajo el control directo de los falangistas. Tras casi dos décadas de intervención en la juventud española fueron sustituidas en...
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In carefully crafted official statements, the European Union presents itself as an honest broker in the Middle East. In reality, however, the EU's 27 governments have been engaged in a long process of accommodating Israel's occupation of Palestinian territories.
Journalist David Cronin interrogates the relationship and its outcomes. A recent agreement for 'more intense, more fruitful, more influential co-operation' between the EU and Israel has...
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Armed resistance, suicide bombings, and rocket attacks, populate the Western media's depiction of Palestinian resistance. Synthesising data from hundreds of original sources, Dr Mazin Qumsiyeh provides the most comprehensive study of the always creative, often peaceful, civil resistance in Palestine.
Successes, failures, missed opportunities and challenges are chronicled through hundreds of stories from over 100 years of Palestinian resistance....
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Asistimos a un momento de cesura histórica; uno de esos largos periodos, como fueron el último tercio del siglo XIX, o el periodo comprendido entre el crack de 1929 y el fin de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, en los cuales la crisis y la transformación capitalistas se entrelazan con cambios parejos en los movimientos sociales y políticos. Tiempos de rupturas y esperanzas, aun cuando resulte difícil discernir aún qué perdurará de lo nuevo y qué...
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Surmountable is the first book explicitly written for the millions of people who have taken part in protests or demonstrations but were left wondering what they achieved, and the millions more who sat out events because they questioned the potential for results. The book addresses these lingering doubts and offers a powerful response in the voices of front line social activists, political thought leaders, and every day citizens.
Surmountable chronicles...
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Michael Albert's latest work, Practical Utopia is a succinct and thoughtful discussion of ambitious goals and practical principles for creating a desirable society. It presents concepts and their connections to current society; visions of what can be in a preferred, participatory future; and an examination of the ends and means required for developing a just society. Neither shying away from the complexity of human issues, nor reeking of dogmatism,...
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Across the world, nonviolent movements are at the forefront of resistance against repression, imperial aggression and corporate abuse. However, it is often difficult for activists in other countries to know how best to assist such movements.
The contributors to People Power place nonviolent struggles in an international context where solidarity can play a crucial role. Yet they also warn that good intentions are not enough, solidarity has to...
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Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasing numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection captures something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into some...
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Our world today is not only a world in crisis but also a world in profound movement, with increasingly large numbers of people joining or forming movements: local, national, transnational, and global. The dazzling diversity of ideas and experiences recorded in this collection capture something of the fluidity within campaigns for a more equitable planet. This book, taking internationalism seriously without tired dogmas, provides a bracing window into...
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The prison business in the US is not based on locking up, punishing, or rehabilitating dangerous hoodlums. Follow the money and find how the prison-industrial complex fits into the New World Order of free trade and imprisoned people, the war on drugs, and capital flight.
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The Roots of Resilience examines governance from the ground up in the world's two most enduring electoral authoritarian or "hybrid" regimes-regimes that blend politically liberal and authoritarian features to evade substantive democracy. Although skewed elections, curbed civil liberties, and a dose of coercion help sustain these regimes, selectively structured state policies and patronage, partisan machines that effectively stand in for local governments,...
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