Canadians Advocating Political Participation (CAPP) is a nationwide grassroots organization dedicated to fostering increased participation of Canadians in our democratic processes. Forged out of the public reaction to the Prorogation of Parliament on December 30, 2009, our members come from all political parties and none, and from every walk of life. We represent the woven tapestry of Canadian society. Through Education and Active Engagement in democratic activities, local chapters of CAPP strive to return democratic power to Canadian citizens from coast to coast, in every region of the country. Through continual monitoring of our governments activities, we strive to maintain accountability to the people that our government is elected to represent. We believe the true power of a democracy lies in the responsibility of its citizens to be well informed and actively engaged. The right to vote comes with an equally important responsibility to engage in our democracy. CAPP has three primary goals: 1) To defend and restore Canadian democracy; 2) Educating Canadians on their political system; and 3) Encouraging greater political participation by all citizens. www.youtube.com A video we made for the re-launch of CAPP and the Not So Secret Democracy Mission. This video is a collaborative effort by Jessica Denyer, Kevin Konnyu, and Justin Arjoon. Soundtrack by Mike Tibensky.
Talk by Vandana Shiva author of “Water Wars: Privatization, Pollution, and Profit” speaking on “The Impact of Globalization on Food and Water” given July 28, 2002 at Kane Hall, University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
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www.egs.edu Michael Hardt talking about love, politics, political philosophy, prison, research, empire, globalization, democracy, capitalism, domination, liberalism, liberation, struggle, activism, freedom, afghanistan, iraq, election, crisis, representation, constitution, Antonio Negri, and Baruch Spinoza. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2005 Michael Hardt. Michael Hardt, born 1960 is an American literary theorist and political philosopher based at Duke University. He is the author of Gilles Deleuze: an Apprenticeship in Philosophy, and Labor of Dionysus: a Critique of the State-form, with Antonio Negri and Empire written with Antonio Negri. The sequel to Empire, called Multitude: War and Democracy in the Age of Empire, was released in August, 2004, and details the idea of the multitude (which Hardt and Negri initially elaborated in Empire) as the potential site of a global democratic movement. In the Fall of 2009, a new co-authored book titled Commonwealth will be published. Sometimes referred to as the “Communist Manifesto of the 21st Century”, Empire proposes that the forces of current class oppression, namely – corporate globalization and commodification of services (or “production of affects”) have the potential to fuel social change of unprecedented dimensions. Born in Washington DC, Hardt attended Winston Churchill High School in Potomac, Maryland. He studied engineering at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania from 1978 to 1983. In college during the 1970s energy crisis, he began to take an interest in alternative energy sources. Talking about his college politics, he said, “I thought that doing alternative energy engineering for third world countries would be a way of doing politics that would get out of all this campus political posing that I hated.” After college, he worked for various solar energy companies. Hardt also worked with ngos in Central America, doing tasks like bringing donated computers from the US and putting them together for the University of El Salvador. Yet, he says that this political activity did more for him than it did for the El Salvadoreans. In 1983 he moved to Seattle to study comparative literature at the University of Washington, where he received an MA in 1986 and his phd in 1990. From there he went to Paris where he would meet Negri and write his dissertation under Negri’s guidance. Michael Hardt speaks fluent French and Italian, and is Professor of Literature and Italian at Duke University. Hardt’s work focuses on politics, activity, activism, and political philosophy. Hardt is concerned with the joy of political life, and has stated, “One has to expand the concept of love beyond the limits of the couple.” The politics of the multitude is not solely about controlling the means of productivity or liberating one’s own subjectivity. These two are also linked to love and joy of political life and realizing political goals. Hardt does not consider teaching a revolutionary occupation, nor does he think the college is a particularly political institution. “But thinking of politics now as a project of social transformation on a large scale, I’m not at all convinced that political activity can come from the university.”
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Talk by Jim Shultz and Leny Olivera of the Democracy Center on “Globalization from the Ground: What Bolivia Teaches Us” given February 6, 2009 at the University of Washington in Seattle. For more info: www.democracyctr.org
www.egs.edu Michael Hardt talking about love, politics, political philosophy, prison, research, empire, globalization, democracy, capitalism, domination, liberalism, liberation, struggle, activism, freedom, afghanistan, iraq, election, crisis, representation, constitution, Antonio Negri, and Baruch Spinoza. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2005 Michael Hardt …
Tony Blair responds to a student asking about the impact Globalization has on Faiths. If Globalization brings people together with shared commerce and shared ventures, does it also facilitate tolerance and augment religions?
Akbayan Rep. Risa Hontiveros called the Maguindanao massacre “a GMA legacy.” “Unfortunately, it is this kind of violence that we will inherit from GMA even after 2010,” she said. “Not only was her administration unable to dismantle private armies in Mindanao, one could even say that the administration has nurtured warlordism. It benefited the administration,” she said. Senate President Juan Ponce Enrile said the incident is a blow to peace and stability in the Mindanao region and the rule of …
