Those who continue to uphold the existing, highly skewed international economic and financial order delay the realization of human rights by many decades.
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Some enterprising commoners in Spain and Latinamerica have launched an crowdfunding campaign to translate and publish Think Like a Commoner in Spanish.
Originally published on Shareable, Ann Marie Utratel of Guerrilla Translation and the P2P Foundation describes the thoughts that led to developing the #ThinkGlobalPrintLocal project.
The project will help the vulnerable ,needy and marginalized women, girls,farmers, local school teachers acquire skills and knowledge to empower the community and solve their own problems. Most teachers do not have skills to operate even their own mobile phones. They travel fifteen kilometres to check on payslips and KRA returns in nearby cyber cafes. We will establish an ICT community school to train them so that they can teach others. Women and girls will also benefit from the project fully.
The Credit Commons is a crowdfunding and crowdsourcing campaign with one audacious and visionary goal: to rethink the system. Our current system was created over 100 years and needs to be modernized. It’s an an unstable and unsustainable system that came within hours of a complete meltdown in October 2008. Today we stand on the threshold of a new frontier in money systems. With the advance of digital technology, social networks and mobile payment solutions, new models of creating shared prosperity are emerging. Can we connect the dots between these trends and design a parallel, complementary system to allocate capital more efficiently and equitably? Instead of waiting for Washington to act, can we use our own capital and ingenuity to create the code of a more democratized "money as software" platform? Can we imagine “Social Banks” inspiring public trust with new motivations, new sharing mechanisms, new levels of stability coded right into the DNA of this new system?
The refugee fund will focus on helping autonomous and self-managed projects so refugees can retain full control over the decisions made in their lives.
Aaaaarghhhhh, a lawsuit! by Blakie Purvis - This campaign raises money for the legal defense fund for Sean Dockray (the initiator of the online library AAAARG.ORG) and Marcell Mars (who registered the latest domain, aaaaarg.fail). They are being sued for $500,000 by a publisher in Quebec. There is no way to know in advance what the total...
The native populations of the Greek Islands in the Aegean Sea (and many other external, worldwide, non-profit organizations and diaspora Greeks) have done and are doing anything possible to help the displaced Syrian refugees and make them as comfortable as possible, although they themselves have very little to offer, despite being subjected to a severe economic crisis for many years. They have shown their Christ-like behavior with acts of "filotimo", love, respect and "filoxenia" to those who are total strangers to them! Their acts and sacrifices shall not go un-noticed, because they are significant contributors to World Peace and Stability, and are clear examples of LOVE for others in the world to use and to learn from!
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