By Jeremy
On Thursday I attended the talk of a Norwegian anarchist, Kim Keyser, who explored the topic of decision making structures within anarchist organizations. Entitled “The Prefigurative Organization”, Keyser did an admirable job of presenting a number of outside-the-box ideas by which anarchists could realize a powerful yet directly democratic movement. We learned a lot, [...]

By illvox.org
In August and September 2008, the two major parties will hold nomination convergences for their presidential candidates. These celebrations will also draw spirited mass demonstrations against such crass spectacles of greed and militarism. Though some may protest for the thrill of action, or so the mainstream media tells it, the larger context of protests [...]

The Campaign for Community Values was launched by the Center for Community Change and forty grassroots organizations in the fall of 2007, after an extensive process to identify effective strategies for influencing the national political debate of 2008 and beyond. It grew out of a sense that our country was on the wrong track – [...]

Thanks to Cindy Milstein for forwarding this for posting.
By Cindy Milstein
(Note: This essay is reprinted from the July–August 2008 issue of Left Turn magazine, which features a special section on the elections; it was written before Obama secured the nomination.)
“The world as it is, is not the world as it has to be.”[1] [...]

For 18 months the people of the Moquegua region (southeastern Peru) and the mining workers from that region have been seeking for peaceful negotiations with the Peruvian government of Lima.
The moqueguanos were trying to lobby against a bill sent by the Peruvian executive to Congress which could mean a reduction of the royalties paid by [...]