Worker Protests, the Morning After: 7 lessons from Argentina for the future
By Ethan Earle Saturday, October 24th, 2009 (Posted in Essays & Articles)… citizens in all walks of life to step forward and join them. The story begins.
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… citizens in all walks of life to step forward and join them. The story begins.
… in Istanbul, Turkey. At first glance, the 5 th Forum is an international event for water experts, activists, government officials and water organizations to exchange ideas and develop policies on these and other water issues. Panelists and participants will discuss 100 topics under the Forum’s six themes including climate change, development, protecting water resources, governance, …
… is not the inevitable collapse of capitalism, as there will be no inevitable demise written into the code of capitalism. If we wish to proceed beyond the capitalist system, we will have to imagine alternatives and work toward them.
… call the multitude.
Nationalism and nation in the Quebec context
Quebec nationalism awakens in the 1960s with the Quiet Revolution (Gellner in Smith, 36). Former French-Canadians living within the borders of the province of Quebec, by considering themselves Quebeckers, wanted to break the subordination status imposed upon them by the English-Canadians. They proudly affirmed their …
… Water color and ink on ledger paper, 0cm x 30cm
… 24cm x 36cm
… Barcelona, Spain
… Latex on found image, 5×25
… Winter Olympics in Vancouver
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Mathew Nelson, Political Science
Discussant: Berrak Kabasakal, Political Economy
Transcript: Commentary from the Discussant
None Available.
… 185). Existing literature on CPPD addresses the need to provide disabled Canadians with equal citizenship through social security (Prince 2005, 2003; Dunn 2006) yet to date little analysis has been done on the productivity agenda at the heart of this issue - and the incompatibility of neo-liberal policymaking and social citizenship rights, more broadly.
The Canada Pension Plan was …
Comment by ed turon: … 59.turning 60 july 7 2010.also …
… Winter Olympics in Vancouver
As Vancouver prepares for the upcoming Winter Olympics in 2010, the bid process has dominated urban discourse with its aim to transform Vancouver into a ‘world-class,’ competitive global-city. This essay will use the Olympic Games as an empirical case study to examine the active role of labour in processes of reinforcing and resisting the building of …
… for queer women.
… Spraypaint on concrete
… that will reach $8.00 in two years (DIR, 2006), as well as massive increases in education spending, but in the mind of Schwarzenegger, these all serve the instrumental purpose of improving competitiveness. That they also do benefit working people is emblematic of an uneven fusion between economic competitiveness and social sustainability; of workfare and welfare.
What makes this rhetoric …
… 406). So applaud the presenters for their attempts to deconstruct these various discursive webs.
Questions
I want to apologize first, since my questions for the presenters encompass larger epistemological questions about political economy in general. But hopefully these will ignite some more specific questions from the audience.
Upon demystifying particular lines of discourse and …