Alternatives est fier de la mention honorable obtenue par la campagne Réapproprie-toi la technologie ! à la compétition internationale d'arts cybernétiques sanctionnée par le prestigieux Prix Ars Electronica.
Cette distinction souligne la campagne innovatrice dont l'objectif est d'enrayer la violence à l'égard des femmes. Réapproprie-toi la technologie ! a été sélectionnée parmi plus de 200 initiatives dans la catégorie des Communautés numériques.
Cette campagne (...) - Communiqués, déclarations, mémoires / Le monde entier, Communiqués de presse, Actualité et analyses

Rapatriez Omar Khadr... afin de rapatrier la conscience canadienne
Quoi : Piquetage
Où : Complexe Guy-Favreau (200 René-Lévesque ouest)
Quand : MIDI vendredi le 25 juillet 2008
Pourquoi : Omar Khadr, citoyen canadien, est emprisonné dans des conditions inhumaines à la prison de Guantanamo depuis plus de cinq ans.
Le gouvernement canadien a le devoir de faire tout ce qui est en son pouvoir pour rapatrier Omar, qui a été arrêté lorsqu'il avait 15 ans. Souvenez-vous que :
Omar n'était qu'un (...) - Agenda

BANGKOK, Jul 25 (IPS) - In their hour of despair, Burma?s beleaguered people continue to find comfort in humour. New jokes reflect new frustrations. The latest target is Ibrahim Gambari, United Nations special envoy for Burma.

MANZINI, Jul 24 (IPS) - In a narrow and still winter-brown valley, little more than a crevice between rocky mountains, Gogo Ndlovu looks after her five young orphaned grandchildren.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 (IPS) - In a twist of realism, a new feature film, "Johnny Mad Dog", uses a cast of actual ex-child soldiers from Liberia to portray the violent lives of youth forced to participate in armed conflict.

BEIRUT, Jul 24 (IPS) - The image of 199 coffins covered with Lebanese, Palestinian and Hezbollah flags neatly aligned in a southern Beirut compound was broadcast last week on all national Lebanese TV stations. On Tuesday this week, 144 of these remains were transferred to Syria, their final place of rest. Such images have stirred varying emotions among the Lebanese population.

UNITED NATIONS, Jul 24 (IPS) - The continued political deadlock over a rash of ongoing crises -- including Iran, Myanmar (Burma), Palestine, Kosovo, Zimbabwe and Sudan -- is threatening to paralyse one of the world's most powerful political bodies, harking back to the days of the Cold War when it was turned into a battleground for U.S.-Soviet confrontation.

ROME, Jul 24 (IPS) - Nine countries have taken major steps towards jettisoning the death penalty over the past 18 months, leaving just a quarter of nations left to abolish the practice, according to the 2008 report from the group Hands off Cain.

Neighborhood Assistance Corporation of America helps tens of thousands restructure their home mortgage

What Aijaz Ahmad would tell the next US president if he received a '3a.m.' call

Phyllis Bennis: You cannot win hearts and minds with ground troops and bombers

Afghanistan, and not Iraq -- is the main front of struggle

Why can't North American cars compete; and why should workers bear the brunt from lack of planning?

Gareth Porter: McCain and Obama are not listening to Iraqis

Joe Trippi describes how the social shift from TV to the Internet will affect politics

US says talks didn't move, Iranian press upbeat

Sabah al-Nasseri: Sadr may be weaker militarily, but he will still be a force in the elections (2/5)

Consumer prices rose 1.1 percent in June, highest one month rise in 26 years

Prof. Barnett Rubin on the links between the US, Afghanistan, Pakistan, the Taliban and NATO (2 of 4)

WASHINGTON, Jul 23 (IPS) - Women's groups weighed in Tuesday on the growing debate over new goals and strategies for U.S. foreign aid, arguing that to work effectively, foreign aid should target women.

NEW YORK, Jul 23 (IPS) - In the name of "global war on terror", the U.S. government is waging war on non-governmental organisations by applying "shortsighted, undemocratic policies" that are "constraining the critical activities of the charitable and philanthropic sectors, stifling free speech, and ultimately impeding the fight against terrorism."

COLOMBO, Jul 23 (IPS) - On the eve of the 25th anniversary of the 1983 anti-Tamil pogrom in Sri Lanka there are few signs that any positive lessons have been learnt from the gory events that changed this island nation?s history and sent a once booming economy into a downward trajectory.

MEXICO CITY, Jul 23 (IPS) - "Diamond VIP" class prostitutes, who are mainly from Eastern Europe, Argentina, Brazil or Cuba, can charge as much as 2,000 dollars in Mexico, while sex workers from southern Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador or Honduras earn a mere 15 dollars. The price indicates which mafia is handling the women.

Voici le premier numéo de la revue Alizés, produite par les stagiaires d'Alternatives. - Actualités / Programme national

équipe de rédaction :
Tobie Fraser
Émilie Russo,
Marilou Lisé-Vincent
Stéphane Pageau
Sophie Guérin
collaboration :
Guillaume Dandurand, Antoine-Samuel Mauffette-Alavo, Sara Brunelle, Julie Tremblay, Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Daniel Lanteigne
photographie :
Daniel Lanteigne, Thanh Pham, Parker Mah, Antoine-Samuel Mauffette-Alavo, Julie Tremblay, Aude Leroux-Lévesque, Malorie Flon, Marilou Lisé-Vincent, Sophie Guérin, Tobie Fraser, Émilie Russo
coordination : Caroline Tagny, Vanessa (...) - Alizés : Volume 1 numéro 1 - juin 2008

In 2006, Venezuela's Hugo Chávez was at the height of his political powers. Traveling to New York to address the United Nations General Assembly, he delivered his by now infamous broadside attacking George Bush as ?the devil.? After delivering his fiery speech at the United Nations the Venezuelan leader went to Harlem to meet with local residents. Once there Chávez received a hero's welcome, which was hardly surprising given that the Venezuelan leader had provided discounted fuel oil to disadvantaged African Americans and Latinos in the neighborhood. - Globalization, resistance, immigration

Up until now, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez's socialist project has counted on broad popular support. But it is encountering ? as was foreseen ? numerous difficulties and an opposition that is not disgusted by coup plots nor assassination attempts. On November 23, the revolutionary project will have to submit itself to a new test, this time in the form of elections for governors and mayors.
The Partido Socialista Unido de Venezuela (United Socialist Party of Venezuela, PSUV), in the (...) - Globalization, resistance, immigration

Le Sommet des dirigeants des huit puissances les plus industrialisées de la planète s'est déroulé les 7, 8 et 9 juillet dans un coin montagneux face au lac Toyako, formé dans le cratère d'un volcan au nord de l'île Hokkaido, elle-même tout au nord de l'archipel japonais. On n'aurait pu choisir un endroit plus à l'écart des bruits du monde d'ici-bas. - Mondialisation et résistances

Dans cet entretien, accordé à Luciana Araújo, Gilmar Mauro parle encore de l'actualité de la révolution socialiste et des réflexions que le MST est en train de mener et il esquisse un bilan de la réforme agraire sous le gouvernement de Lula, en prenant en compte la nouvelle configuration que donne à la lutte pour la terre l'expansion de l'agronégoce. - Mondialisation et résistances

L'accueil chaleureux de Nicolas Sarkozy confirme simplement que l'Europe a décidé de reconnaître le nouveau rôle de premier plan de la Syrie en Asie occidentale et que, tôt ou tard, Washington suivra. - L'arc des crises