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Cleaning Where We Are Standing: A Struggle of Our Own

Submitted by abahlali on Thu, 2007-04-05 00:48. | | |

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We are a group of youth between the ages of 17 and 22 who come from two small townships in Pietermaritzburg, Thembalihle and Eastwood. Our aim is to make our communities a better place for our next generation by bringing youth together and looking at the problems where we live. We don’t want to be the problem, we want to be part of the solution, because as the youth, we are the future. At the moment, we are a group of seven, but we are still growing. For now, we are calling ourselves the Youth Development Team (YDT).

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The routes and possibilities of a South - South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil

Submitted by Abahlali_3 on Fri, 2007-12-14 14:48. | |

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/features/44949

The routes and possibilities of a South - South subversive globalization: Africa and Brazil
Jacques Depelchin (2007-12-11)

Jacques Depelchin reflects on the growing economic, political and cultural relationship between Brazil and the Africa and urges for a solidarity from below that is cognizant of black revolutionary history.

Almost everyone knows about Brazilian football, especially Pelé; but, it is a fair bet that a very tiny percentage of the same people will know about one of the foremost intellectuals of Brazil in the 20th century: Milton Santos (MS), winner in 1994 of the Vautrin Lud prize given to the most outstanding geographer (sometimes known as the nobel prize for geography). Others have described him as the Noam Chomsky of Brazil. One could go on with the accolades. Thanks to a recent documentary (directed by Silvio Tendler) on and around his ideas, MS’ reputation (1925-2001) is likely to gain greater recognition among Brazilians as they begin to realize how far ahead his visionary understanding of humanity’s plight and challenges was.

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