by Bruce Wilkinson, AfGJ Grassroots Development Coordinator
“What is the nature of the process by which organizations, institutions and societies transform themselves?” Donald Schon contemplated the question of how we learn and adapt to change in an increasingly unstable society during the upheavals that frame the late 1960s and early 1970s. Now Occupy Wall Street, on the heels of the Arab Spring and the uprisings across Europe, reignites that question in the US. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
by Midge Quandt (AFGJ Board Emeritus)
The Occupy Wall Street movement that by December 2011 had spread to 900 cities world-wide led me to question my earlier allegiance to the idea that government/the state is the most effective avenue to radical social change. The Occupy movement also led me to revisit a related argument that didn’t begin with OWS and that’s been going on in Latin America since the 1990s: whether government or grass roots is the best road to a good society. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Alliance for Global Justice wants to encourage all supporters of peace and justice to go to Chicago in May to protest the Summits of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the Group of 8 (G8)–the eight governments with the world’s largest economies. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
In May, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) will meet in Chicago to discuss the future of Afghanistan, the shared costs of the military alliance and the expansion of the so called missile defense system. ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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