End the violence and displacement of the Mapuche people in Chile


Sign the petition online at change.org Mr. Sebastián Piñera, President of Chile: We are individuals of different nationalities, cultures, and races. We are religious and nonreligious people, political and non-political. Some of us are Chileans and many of us are residents of New York City. We are a good sample of the 99% of the population. We are ordinary people who are directly affected by the rapid, widespread changes that are taking place here in our city but also globally; changes that ...

Tomás Hirsch: the meaning of nonviolent action


Posted by: Pressenza IPA Posted date: 02 February 2013 On February 1st the Chilean humanist Thomas Hirsch took part in the International Conference for Peace that took place at Munich, called “Non violent ways of regime change.” We publish here the transcript of his words: “The name proposed for this conference is already arguable. Firstly, as a reflection rather than a criticism, if I am asked to talk about nonviolent regime change is because the basic assumption is that the possibility exists ...

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The New Economy of the Commons.


By David Andersson Gift economies could be very potent and effective organizing tools for creating value. We have many examples of gift economies in our  world today, such as community gardens or free/open software, where no money is paid for the creation and maintenance of this resource but instead people contribute time and talent and get recognition and respect as well as shared access to the resources. Other examples include the Time Dollar community, where people give their time in exchange for services or goods, and the donation system (such as blood donations). It sometimes confounds economists who think that rational self interest  in a cash economy is the only way to create value, but it is clear to see in the internet that sharing is happening all the time: Wikipedia, social networking communities, collaborative websites and archives like the Internet ...

Wall Street de-capitalizes one of its own


When we speak about Wall Street, what comes to mind most often are its greed, the big fat bonuses for its executives, its addiction to more and still more… This is known territory, with known defenders and detractors. Today, we take a detour, and focus instead on the irrationality and speculation that are at the very root of our financial system.  A few weeks ago, Apple Inc. (previously Apple Computers) announced financial results for the first quarter of 2013. With $13.1 billion profit on $54.5 billion revenue, this was the best quarterly results ever in the company’s history. By any rational, objective measure, the company’s performance was spectacular, especially in a context of an ongoing global economic downturn. However, as Charles Moore from technologytell.com says, this performance was “not good enough for Wall Street”. So, Wall Street “punished Apple with a further ...

Oscar Olivera: Idle No More!!!


The news about what’s happening in the North, in these cold lands that we call Canada, came like hot hurricane winds: the hunger strike of our sister Theresa Spence.  For us, this strike represents the hunger for justice of thousands of indigenous men, women, children, youth and elders in many parts of the world, mainly in our America, territories with so-called indigenous and/or popular governments. Since 2000, since Kollasuyo, since Cochabamba, we rise up against forgetting and for the recovery of our Voice and our Capacity to Decide our present and future and even after 12 years *, we rise and keep coming.  Daily we overcome indifference, contempt, imposition, the arrogance and looting to which our governments eternally subject us; the governments’ partners, those grand trans nationals that are destroying our lands.  They will never beat us and for that, from ...