Resonances: the newsletter for active citizens

Resonances is a monthly publication devoted to civic engagement and collaboration in the world, as well as to the solutions and projects involved in the daily struggle against poverty. Destitute populations take concrete steps against violence and poverty to improve the situation to which they are constantly subjected. In working together to find solutions, engaged men and women are fighting for a more just society. Resonances makes these efforts known through its articles on the struggle against poverty and the defence of vulnerable populations.

Resonances recognizes community energy and the engagement of active citizens around the world, including those in France: each month young activists invest themselves in Resonances. By keeping in contact with our partners while writing articles in Paris, by taking photos while spending months abroad, they have made and continue to make Resonances possible.

Resonances is also published in French and Spanish and is distributed around the world.

Update: Saturday 14 June 2008

Les articles

Resonances Latin America N° 25 - June 2008

Participating / Brazil In Brazil, the Bionatur network promotes diversity and agro-ecology 400 farmers participated in the 4th national meeting of the Bionatur network, from the 22nd to the 24th of last May, in Candiota, in the province of Rio Grande do Sul, at the southern tip of Brazil. A strategic weapon for the Landless Workers Movement (Movimiento de los Trabajadores Rurales sin Tierra, MST) and defender since 1997 of agro-ecological seeds, the Bionatur network has brought together (...)
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Résonances Asia N°24 - May 2008

Edito In Indonesia, the premises and the training room of one of the biggest farmers’ unions on the island of Java, the Union of Sundanais Farmers (Serikat Petani Pasundan) was burnt down on the 15th of May last year. Those responsible have not been indentified, and few dare to believe that they ever will be: activists around the world suffer violence continuously, and the justice system supposed to protect them often turns a blind eye. In response, they don’t hesitate to brandish and use (...)
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Resonances Africa N° 23 - April 2008

Edito Viviane [this month’s Encounter] and Lucie, two African women, describe their daily battle to obtain respect for human rights. One of them lives in a war-torn country, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the other in a country under reconstruction, Burundi. They describe the same scene: violence as a weapon of war or of terror, and in all cases, daily violence towards women and children. They describe their experience with words, and sometimes with silence. Eloquent silence when words (...)
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Resonances Latin America N° 22 - March 2008

Read this Resonance about Latin America and download the PDF For more information contact us. Beyond the political context, strengthening social commitment Bolivia is on the verge of a division. On 29 February last, Evo Morales, President of the Republic, enacted a law officially announcing the date of a future referendum to ratify the new constitution. On 4 May, the Bolivian people will vote for their future. This future is uncertain, given the tensions caused by the political and (...)
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Resonances Asia N°21 - February 2008

Read this Resonance about Asia and download the PDF For more information contact us. Participating/ Pakistan Fishermen defend their fundamental rights Repression, resistance! On November 4, 2007, the members of the Pakistan Fishermen Forum (PFF) were assembled at the Press Association of Karachi not to discuss problems related to fishing, but to support the spontaneous protest by members of civil society against the martial law imposed by Pervez Musharraf. Read this article. (...)
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Resonances Africa N°20 - January 2008

Read this Resonances about Africa and download the PDF For more information contact us. Participating/ Congo Brazzaville The women of Vía Campesina Africa meet to discuss their daily lives To raise a collective force from rural African women, this was the goal of the first meeting of the Vía Campesina Africa which took place from the 28th to the 30th last November in Congo-Brazzaville. The meeting was part of a unanimous statement: “the daily lives of rural African women, the chief (...)
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Resonances Latin America N°19 - December 2007

Read this Resonances about Latin America and download the PDF For more information contact us. Small streams make big rivers In Haiti, mud flows from tropical storms carry everything away: earth, houses and human lives. Poverty is such that in order to survive, the rural population has been forced to turn to deforestation to make charcoal, which is the only source of fuel available and often the only way to earn a few gourdes [1]. Since 1950 the area covered by forest has decreased (...)
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Resonances Asia N°18 - November 2007

Read this Resonancesand download the PDF For more information contact us. Janadesh, following the path… When thousands of poor people, representing their equally poor village community, join together and proclaim that they are not beggars, what kind of wealth do they invite us to share with them? When peasants require solutions for social insecurity, aren’t they asserting their citizenship for all the landless people? Doesn’t it make us wonder about our democratic capacity to take into (...)
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Resonances Africa N° 17 - October 2007

Read this Resonances about Africa and download the PDF Participating / Algeria Social networking through the local régies in Algiers, Oran and Constantine A simple and strong symbolic idiom: Takatouf el Hadarri. That’s the name given to the Algerian régies de quartier created between 2005 and 2006. Based on the French model of cooperation between inhabitants, local authorities and social partners, they intervene in the management of a particular territory. The collective management is (...)
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Resonances Latin America N°16 - September 2007

Read this Resonances about Latin America and download the PDF For more information contact us. Editorial You receive Résonances, you read it, and Résonances needs your help ! Dear readers, You receive Résonances, the on-line monthly of Frères des Hommes, as proof of the strength of the commitments of the men who join together to build a world of justice and solidarity. Its articles, reports, and testimonies interest you, speak to you, provoke you, and motivate you. You may not know (...)
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Resonances Asia N°15 - June 2007

Read this Resonances about Asia and download the PDF For more information contact us. Edito Janadesh 2007, people march for access to land On our Earth, the struggle of the “landless” is intensifying, both in northern countries and in the south. In India, Ekta Parishad, a partner of Frères des Hommes, has called for people to mobilise themselves for JANADESH 2007, that will be held from 2nd to 22nd October. FDH cannot and does not want to remain insensitive to this fair and non-violent (...)
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Resonances Africa N°14 - May 2007

Read this Resonances about Africa and download the PDF For more information contact us. Edito Rwanda/Sénégal Woodworkers address the challenges of Africa “Rwanda/Senegal: woodworkers address the challenges of Africa.” This is the setting for the exhibition created by Frères des Hommes. Rwanda/Senegal: to show that it is two African countries, that it represents a cultural confrontation. Following the organisation of a training for Rwandan woodworkers in Senegalese workshops at the end of (...)
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Résonances Latin America N°13 - April 2007

Read this Resonances about Latin America and download the PDF For more information contact us. Edito When the farmers’ fight becomes a citizens’ struggle When nineteen landless farmers in Brazil were killed on 17 April 1996, it became a black day in history. Killed for fighting for the right to live off their land, their memory has been celebrated every year since. This day has come to commemorate for landless farmers around the world, but it is above all a day of struggle and protest. (...)
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Résonances Asia N°12 - March 2007

Read this Resonances about Asia and download the PDF For more information contact us. Editorial A land that shelters, nourishes, and welcomes, but most of all a land for living In 2008, the right to housing will be guaranteed in France. From a theoretical recognition to a universal proclamation, the guarantee for each citizen to have access to a roof, to be sheltered, to be protected, to be able to construct his or her future will assume the concrete form of a law, which justice must (...)
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