This question may seem overly broad or ambitious to be addressed in this short essay. But however briefly or incompletely, in a time of hyper-connectivity it is important to explore into this burning question. In a period of mass information, public opinions and social imaginaries have an impact on global feeling and governance, as a…
Details“The struggle against out own weaknesses (…) whatever difficulties the enemy may put in our way, this struggle against ourselves is the most difficult of all, both in the present and the future of our peoples.” – Amilcar Cabral (1966). “Our problem is not the problem of governance in cyberspace. Our problem is a problem…
DetailsThe trajectory of a workers’ struggle that began in the trade union movement and worker-recovered factories in Argentina has led to a new debate about the global economy. Author: François Soulard, November 2016 The threat of climate change, the turbulence of global politics and the dénouement of forty years of expansion of neoliberal socioproductive…
DetailsIntroduction The struggle against our own weaknesses (…) whatever the difficulties created by the enemy may be, this struggle against ourselves is the hardest, both in the present and in the future of our peoples. — Amilcar Cabral, Havana, 1966. From this moment on, each man must stand guard over his own life –…
DetailsText of Laura Flanders originally published in The Next System. A personal introduction In the interest of full transparency, this essay is personal. When it comes to journalism, I’ve been on a career-long search for an effective, sustainable alternative to corporate mono-speak. In all that time, regular people have never had more communications capacity…
Details“The struggle against our own weaknesses (…) regardless of any difficulties created by our enemy, the struggle against ourselves is the hardest, both now and in the future of our people” – Amilcar Cabral, La Habana, 1966. The Internet and cyberspace have, in just 25 years, become a new strategic frontier for competition among powers…
Details“What times are these in which it is necessary to defend the obvious.” Bertolt Brecht Human migration, a vector of transformation and a symbolic manifestation of the globalized world, has gradually taken on a more compulsive and tragic aspect in recent years. We are seeing growth in national state police and security apparatus on a…
DetailsOn the shock of the present, the narrowness of interpretative frameworks, and the communicational rape of the masses In the first half of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley wrote in Brave New World of his fear that the truth would be drowned in a sea of insignificant news and the desire for knowledge repressed.…
DetailsLet us summarize the red thread connecting various recent occurrences in Argentina and Brazil, occurrences that are only disconnected on the media surface. We are immersed in a significant process of change in the correlation of political forces pushing to reform the architecture of the State and the accumulation of wealth, a State that has…
DetailsBeyond its umbilical association with the vast global electronic territory, free software has established a solid home base, even an “adopted” homeland, in Latin America. Far from being a chauvinist derivation, this metaphor nevertheless proves to be realistic enough to illustrate the singular fertility that has developed over the last twenty years between the free…
DetailsThe persistence of the global crisis and the risks of reconstitution of an even more virulent globalised capitalism in the coming decades require a faster understanding of the new geopolitical landscape and building critical thinking on the basis of emerging experiences. Latin America, a stakeholder of a true “change of era”, has actively embraced these…
DetailsAs a result of the Anti-CFA Front’s initiative in Africa, on 11 February this year a series of actions will be undertaken in twenty-five countries and three continents to protest at financial colonialism and to debate new proposals. Could these be the seeds of an intercontinental front for a new financial and monetary system? Authors:…
DetailsWe, communicators and activists committed to multiple emancipatory communication practices across different regions of the world, freely assembled in March 2015 in Tunis, on the occasion of the 4th World Forum on Free Media, organized as part of the World Social Forum 2015, Adopt this World Charter of Free Media, as the result of our…
DetailsAuthors: François Soulard, Germà Pelayo “The river that carries everything away is called violent, but no one calls violent the bed that oppresses it” – Berthold Brecht “It is not the earth that moves this time, it is we, migrants. The migrants, all those people going through the many forms of human mobility, we are…
DetailsBy Arnaud Blin (Center for Global Policy and Governance Studies (New York), author of The History of Terrorism with Gérard Chaliand.) François Soulard (Forum for a New World Governance (Buenos Aires), contributor to the Dictionary of World Governance) After several weeks of uncertainty surrounding Donald Trump’s foreign policy, in the space of a few days…
DetailsA contribution to the Social Internet Forum debates In the space of twenty-five years, cyberspace has raised the upper echelons of global power to become a geostrategic asset like other traditional spaces such as international waters, the atmosphere, and space. The speed with which it has ascended is unprecedented in history. Never before in times…
DetailsGlobalization, a central phenomenon of our time, has made a surprising and tumultuous return to the agenda, judging by upheavals in various political arenas. There are those who herald a turn towards a post-liberal cycle, while others sound the death knell of economic globalization. Without losing sight of the gravity of the situation, we should…
Details“We must either invent or err” combatively claimed Venezuelan thinker Simón Rodríguez to inspire the liberators of the Latin American continent at the dawn of its first independence. This phrase gives a very clear idea of what awaits the hundreds of communicators, media, networks and activists meeting at the next World Forum of Free…
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