All that glitters is not green: debates surrounding energy transition
We share the English version of Focus Point N° 18.
Mining and the people’s consciousness
The Movement for Popular Sovereignty in Mining celebrates its sixth birthday and faces the challenge of putting one of Brazil’s most conflictive production chains on the country’s agenda
Free public transport for all – dream and reality
Daniel Santini from Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in São Paulo was in Estonia to talk about mobility experiences and free public transportacion in Brazil
The National, the International and Marielle’s Assassination
On the evening of March 14, the second day of the 2018 WSF in Brazil, 38-year old city councilwoman and human rights activist Marielle Franco was assassinated in Rio de Janeiro
“Shifting the hegemonic approach to water”
“I think we have to be careful – what makes it into the news isn’t the whole story. There is scarcity but there’s also the manufactured scarcity of who gets the water.” Mary Galvin, University of Johannesburg
Beyond the imperative of growth
Many analyses from various scientific disciplines imply that a growth-based economic and social system cannot have a future. From September 2-6, 2014, a conference in the German city of Leipzig will tackle this topic.
