Reflections from the United States on 'Illegality' and 'Incorrigibility'

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IIRE, Amsterdam, 15th June 2010, 19.30 (see details below)

The most resounding expression of the unprecedented mobilizations of migrants throughout the United States in 2006 was a proclamation of collective defiance:  ¡Aquí Estamos, y No Nos Vamos!  [Here we are, and we're not leaving!].

The IIRE's three-to-four-week Women's Schools have considerably enriched our other courses. For example, other courses have borrowed feminist analyses initially presented here of the interaction of gender, race and class, social and family dynamics of economic restructuring, and democracy and leadership development in popular organizations.

Interview with Gilbert Achcar *

In the introduction to your book, you declare that you wrote it in order to "fight the symmetrical caricatures" often heard about Arab attitudes to the Holocaust? What are these caricatures?

Entrevista al conferencista del IIF Gilbert Achcar *

Olivier Doubre : En la introducción a tu obra /1, precisas haberla escrito con "la intención de combatir las caricaturas simétricas" que se oyen a menudo sobre los árabes respecto a la Shoah. ¿Cuáles son esas caricaturas?

As the global financial crisis continues to fester, local and national governments tend to place the bulk of the burden on public spending. More cuts and lay-offs, reductions in salaries and the disappearance of community-based projects place the most vulnerable sectors of society at higher risk. Parallel to this leaning, liberal, multiparty democracy seems to be failing its citizens.  Now more than ever, it is time for activists to take matters into their own hands and reclaim what traditionally has belonged to the commons.