DDCI in new Publication on Social Movements
12 March 2013
»The Future We the People Need«
Werner Puschra
Executive Director, FES New York
What started as a local phenomenon, the self-immolation of a Tunisian street trader in a small village protesting ill treatment by local authorities, soon spread to other countries around the world and awakened a new social movement. This new social movement is overwhelmingly young and takes a fresh look at their future and the future of their countries and the planet. Through their actions they have discovered the power to start a transformative process to change established political, economic, social and cultural structures and institutions
to make them more responsive to their plights.
We do not know yet what the outcome will be, but a process has begun.... read more
DDCI's Nessa Ní Chasaide writes about the Battle for Debt justice, in Ireland, drawing on what we have learned from struggles in the global South
