Civil Democracy
Organizations of precarious workers, labour unions, small farmer and craftsmen cooperatives, microcredit insurance companies, movements of the landless, the young, women, village groups, working class areas… Numerous actions led by poor communities to have their rights recognized and to improve their living conditions are association- and community-based. At a time when egocentricity and immediate financial profits have increased their hold, the practice of collective commitment to the common good is a vital path of resistance for the democratic wellbeing of all communities, and for the fulfilment of all humanity.
Update: Tuesday 24 January 2012
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Frères des Hommes and democratic citizenship
The struggle against poverty is a movement of liberation
The abolition of poverty aims to free billions of human beings, in all parts of the world, who are enslaved and humiliated by destitution and permanent precariousness. By stimulating the desire for freedom and equality, by shrugging off the yoke of fatalism, by loosening the stranglehold of resignation, fear and despair, by relying on everyone’s life force, the struggle against poverty stimulates liberating energies for the common (...)
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