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From a pro-democratic perspective, civil society and new media organisations are surging in the aftermath of the Orban regime.
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Rebel Cities 22: Nationwide Protests Rock Vietnam's Authoritarian-Neoliberal Government
Widespread ongoing protests against the country's Special Economic Zones – through which Vietnam favors deregulated business with China – are shaking the stability of the government.
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Rebel Cities 21: In India, Can People Win 'Rights to the Megacity'?
"Rights to the City" are useful for challenging authorities and elites as they attempt to prescribe solutions for sprawling urban areas of poverty. As New Delhi and Mumbai expand, those rights are more important than ever.
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Rebel Cities 20: With Hip-Hop As Sound Track, Young Senegalese Say Enough Is Enough
The Y’en a Marre ("We Are Fed Up") movement, which traveled the country raising awareness about the need to vote, played a crucial role helping defeat Senegal's two-term president in 2012.
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Rebel Cities 19: Gdansk's Murdered Mayor Was Leading the Polish Charge Against Fascism
Occupy.com pays tribute to Pawel Adamowicz by focusing on Gdansk's citizens' assemblies that he was instrumental in helping to build – and which he saw as a democratic tool to facilitate democracy in Poland and beyond.
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Rebel Cities 18: Eight Years After Jasmine Revolution, Jemna Is Tunisia's Oasis of Hope
A wave of protests and progress has swept the north African nation since its Jasmine Revolution ushered in the Arab Spring eight years ago. Tunisia is still blazing a democratic path forward.
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Rebel Cities 17: Goma's Non-Violent Movement for Water & Peace in War-Torn Congo
The Congolese group Lucha successfully mobilized thousands to march for the right to water in the city of Goma. Now, the group is challenging the regime of President Joseph Kabila.
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Rebel Cities 16: Cape Town Housing Movement Uses Occupy Tactics to Battle Apartheid's Legacy
Conceived as a tenant and workers movement, Reclaim the City's first aim was to pressure the Cape Town government to turn publicly held land into social housing rather than sell it off to developers.
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Rebel Cities 15: Municipalism In Venezuela Offers A Pathway Beyond Authoritarianism
Venezuela has more than 1,000 communes – like El Maizal, with its cooperative of 2,000 farmer families – but they face opposition from Venezuela's politicians and elites.
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Rebel Cities 14: In Montevideo, People-Power Keeps Pushing Uruguay's Pink Tide
It legalized marijuana, abortion and gay marriage. It boasts universal healthcare and produces nearly all its energy with renewables. Why is Uruguay so advanced and what can we learn from the country?
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Rebel Cities 13: Porto Alegre In Brazil Shows How Participatory Budgeting Works
Citizen control of spending decisions means communities decide what their city does and does not do with public funds. For 30 years the process has worked in Brazil, and now it's spreading rapidly.
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The country’s new prime minister, Andy Burnham, has promised a break from the politics of the last 40 years—realizing more broadly that Labour must stand up for the 99% against big business, or the party will become irrelevant.
Posted 1 month 2 weeks ago
We can still celebrate success while simultaneously putting a cap on net worth.
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The current wave of food recalls is a direct byproduct of President Donald Trump’s administration deliberately removing the safeguards put in place aimed at protecting American consumers more than a century ago.
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