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Updated: 16 days ago
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A Sabedoria Popular e os Direitos do Povo
Ciência tradicional, Uttaranchal, Índia
Problem: O Sahayog tem trabalhado com conhecimento e práticas tradicionais em pequena escala desde 1995. As primeiras atividades incluiram a documentação preliminar no setor da saúde e agricultura.   Tendo compreendido a imensa importância deste sistema de conhecimento no desenvolvimento sustentável e no fortalecimento de mulheres e dalits, uma série de intervenções, nas comunidades, foram iniciadas em 15 povoados através do CAC, Aadhar e Buniyad em seus distritos de origem, Almora e Nainital.   Esta...

Action: O objetivo tem sido, sempre, promover o processo de fortalecimento do povo, através do desenvolvimento baseado em seus próprios conhecimentos e habilidades.   Temos trabalhado para o fortalecimento dos marginalizados socialmente, focando nos problemas de saúde das mulheres e no fortalecimento através do Panchayats, conhecimento tradicional utilizando uma abordagem baseada em direitos. O foco do trabalho foi modificado, de um desenvolvimento integrado para o fortalecimento das mulheres, a me...
Updated: 3 months ago
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Problem: March 21 International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination created in memory of the massacre of Sharpville in South Africa in 1960. This massacre occurred during a peaceful protest against the unjust laws (which restricted the movement of blacks). The protestors were harshly repressed by police with machine guns, leaving 69 people dead and hundreds wounded. This day became a symbol of the struggle against racial oppression all over the world.   For this reason, this day was ch...

Action:   Original objectives at project outset The movement seeks to educate religious communities, principally those with African roots, about their rights and responsibilities within society. They should enjoy the same respect as other religions.     Services offered:   - Documenting cases of religious intolerance and helping arrange legal support. - Popular education about religious intolerance.   Project Details Staff:  none ...
Updated: 3 months ago
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Problem: Em 1995, na comunidade de Jacarezinho, no quarto andar da igreja Metodista na Rua João Pinto número 13, a Escola Pequeno Céu foi aberta para as crianças da comunidade. Localizada nas favelas do Rio de Janeiro e cercada por centros industriais, Jacarezinho apresenta alta incidência de crimes violentos e tráfico de drogas. Com uma população de aproximadamente 140.000 pessoas, há cerca de 500 crianças carentes com menos de sete anos idade todos os anos.   O pastor Clóvis aliou a necessidade de ...

Action: Havia a intenção de fundar uma creche, mas a falta de recurpossibilitou somente a formação de uma escolinha para alfabetização infantil. Serviços Oferecido: Alfabetização infantil, noções de saúde e cidadania.
Updated: 3 months ago
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Problem: O Centro Cultural Luiz da Silveira foi, instituído oficialmente no dia 06 de janeiro de 2005. O patrono desta Entidade desenvolveu nas décadas de 1970 em convênio com o antigo MOBRAL (Movimento Brasileiro de Alfabetização) a alfabetização de vários moradores, crianças, jovens e adultos. Ele criou uma escolinha, aonde sem cobrar quaisquer centavos contribuiu para que muitas crianças aprendessem as primeiras lições e os adultos assinarem seu nome para receberem suas pensões.   Na década seguint...

Action: O Projeto tem como objetivo o desenvolvimrnto da Biblioteca Comunitária para que venha atender e suprir o interesse da população, estudantes, pesquisadores e interessados em geral e motivar a criança, o adolescente e o adulto à sensibilidade intelectual, desenvolvendo habilidades culturais através do hábito da leitura, com vista a um melhor aproveitamento escolar e melhor condições de habilitação ao mercado profissional e aprimoramento do caráter.   Serviços Oferecidos: Biblioteca comunitár...
Updated: 3 months ago
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Problem: Corporate/Special interests control the legislature of the USA. The convention clause of the US Constitution was written to prevent this. All fifty states have applied for the Article V Convention, the trick is to get this idea of coming together in a convention to a tipping-point majority of Americans. A popular documentary can do this. http://www.articlev.org  

Action: We have the green light from UCSB, we have three parliamentarians to administer Robert's Rules of Order to the deliberative assembly, and we have a long list of college students ready to participate.
Publisher: John De Herrera
Updated: 4 months ago
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Problem: The problem is the inequality

Action: To have a society based on CP Socialism people must first be informed about this form of societal structure, so it will be widely known and accepted. Secondly the best way of implementing it is by the democratic process with all the four fundamental laws implemented immediately, if not simultaneously then right after each other.
Updated: 8 months ago
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Multi Layer Representation
Natural democracy
Problem: Government is the organizing instrument of society and to make sure that it is acting in the best interests of its citizens, it is managed and controlled by representatives of the citizens who are directly accountable for their performance to the citizens: Representative Government.How to create and structure such a representative government hasn't totally eluded people to date but it could do with some improving.Many of the existing structures carry burdens of historical trappings, most ofte...

Action: Small groups in every constituency, in every nation, must organize now around a standard, new, simple platform and present themselves for election on that platform at every opportunity.The consistent platform will enable and speed the education of the citizenry of all nations, regions and communities. Those who do not wish to stand for office can be powerful in demanding that anyone they vote for adopt the Standards of LIFE as part of their own agenda and commit to promoting them in any way t...
Publisher: Standards of LIFE
Updated: 8 months ago
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Problem: This solution tackles the question of legal juristiction in a multi-layered, community based social structure. How can you establish human rights on a global level while allowing individual communities to determine their own laws for food standards or noise levels?

Action: Within the structure of multi-layer democracy (http://www.standardsoflife.com/representation) there needs to be a way of handling the differences between different consitituencies within a layer and between layers. Variable Law is a legal construct that is best included in a constitution (http://www.standardsoflife.com/constitutional+Template) and provides ...
Publisher: Standards of LIFE
Updated: 12 months ago
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Integrated BASE/Tax
Social security linked taxation system
Problem: Creating an integrated taxation and social security system that guides the invisible hand of the market to help everyone.

Action: A fair system for setting tax rates using the average earnings of the population and by linking the use of tax revenues to the cost of providing the basic services that underpin society.   In order to form a more perfect tax system that represents these principles and is readily adopted and embraced, LIFE proposes an income tax structure that is based on two clearly observable features of a society: the average income of a citizen and the cost of providing those services that are deemed to be...
Publisher: Standards of LIFE