Reserve your place NOW for the 16th annual Alternatives' Days!! Dates : 27, 28, 29 August 2010 Place : Camp Papillon de St-Alphonse de Rodriguez Limited space, reserve now!! Call: (514) 982-6606 poste 2221 Alternatives welcomes you to the 16th edition of Alternatives' Days to participate with hundreds of other activists in debates, discussions and activities grouped this year under the title: Solidarity in Action! Once again this year the activities will be held in a summer camp, Camp (...) - Alternatives days 2010

Taking a stroll through the endless clothes racks of a Canadian mall is generally not a terribly edifying experience. For some, it's a chance to pass a carefree day with friends, for others it's an opportunity to update their wardrobe with the hottest brands and styles, and yet for others, it's merely a necessary evil: a trip to buy new clothes for their children or for work. Whatever it is that draws us to go clothes shopping, it is a fairly repetitive ritual based on labels. We scan the (...) - Intern chronicles / Asia, Bangladesh, Social Justice Movements

I find myself walking down the dusty red path of Djoumanzana; a ?suburb? if you will, of Mali's capital city, Bamako. It's nighttime and the only light available is that of the occasional passing motorcycle and the glare from between dark bodies huddled around the television set outside of the local corner store: villagers gawking over the dubbed Latin-American soap operas. I continue down towards my residence, tired from the long day of working at Radio Kayira's rooftop garden. Across from my (...) - Intern chronicles / Africa

Location: Taipei, Taiwan, with traveling possibilities. Duration: 1 year Conditions: consultant position Salary: 2000$ / month Start date: June 25, 2010 Summary: Under the supervision of the Alternatives International general director and general secretary, as well as the Hao Ran Foundation, the project officer for International volunteering programs will support the execution of international volunteering programs of the Hao Ran foundation based in Taiwan. The project officer (...) - Job offers

50ième anniversaire de la révolution 50ième année de recherche constante d'alternatives! - L'actualité en première scène

- Un environnement en changement

Un sourire qui dévoile que malgré les moments difficiles que nous traversons, l'espoir fait vivre. Cet enfant qui a ouvert mes yeux sur les choses les plus importantes de la vie. L'innocence dans ses yeux est l'une des choses qui nous montre que le meilleur est à venir - Des visages pour un monde différent

Permaculture Promoters from the Fundacion Antonio Nunez Jiminez de la Naturaleza y el Hombre on a rooftop in Banao, Cuba. - Des organisations dynamiques et novatrices

n collaboration withe Youth Eco Internship Program of the YMCA Canada, Alternatives is offering an assistant to the environment and urban agriculture programs in Montreal The Rooftop Garden project (a collaboration between Alternatives and the Santropol Roulant) is an unique community initiative who addresses food security, environmental health and urban ecology. Our innovative gardens empowr urban residents to produce their own food, green their neighbourhoods and build healthy (...) - Environment and urban agriculture internships

In collaboration withe Youth Eco Internship Program of the YMCA Canada, Alternatives is offering an urban agriculture mobilization and education officer position in its Montreal office. The Rooftop Garden project (a collaboration between Alternatives and the Santropol Roulant) is an unique community initiative who addresses food security, environmental health and urban ecology. Our innovative gardens empowr urban residents to produce their own food, green their neighbourhoods and build (...) - Environment and urban agriculture internships / Agriculture, Environment, Social Ecology, National

The Vietnam War ruined everything. It not only destroyed Vietnam and killed a huge number of its inhabitants. It not only killed so many American soldiers and destroyed the futures of so many veterans. It not only spread into Cambodia and Laos and wrecked those countries for generations. The Vietnam War also killed the Great Society. President Lyndon Johnson, with a large Democratic majority in Congress after the 1964 elections, enacted sweeping reforms in education, health care, and (...) - Articles de l'extérieur / Americas, News and analysis

In an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Neve Gordon, professor of political science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, called for international support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. I have already explained in my blog that the point of this international campaign is to sanction Israel for its occupation policies, colonization and systematic violation of international law and United Nations' resolutions regarding the conflict in Palestine. (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel, News and analysis

Publication of Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict is an important step, on condition that it is followed up. This is important, first and foremost, for international public hygiene: during two decades of neo-conservative rule in the United States, we were witness to a joint effort of the White House and Israel to annul the norms of international law. Here we can recall the stupid comment of George W. Bush. Bush, in the framework of the global war on terror, argued it (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel, News and analysis

One of the oddest ? indeed, surreal ? encounters around the war in Afghanistan has to be a telephone call this past July 27. On one end of the line was historian Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. On the other, State Department special envoy Richard Holbrooke and the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. The question: How can Washington avoid the kind of defeat it suffered in Southeast Asia 40 years ago? Karnow did not divulge what he said to the two (...) - Analysis and Articles / Afghanistan, News and analysis

The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countries experienced little or no economic growth, globalization has been terminally discredited in the last two years. As the much-heralded process of financial and trade interdependence went into reverse, it became the transmission belt not of (...) - Analysis and Articles / Le monde entier, News and analysis

President Rajapaksa's treatment of the independent press is a shocking indictment of a regime that refuses to tolerate criticism. ?The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which??? Animal Farm by George Orwell The year was 1989. A violent youth insurrection that had terrorised the Sri Lankan populace was being brutally quelled by the state establishment. Bodies were (...) - Analysis and Articles / Sri Lanka

On 31 August 2009, Lev Leviev, the sixth richest Israeli according to Forbes Magazine, convened a press conference and announced that his company Africa Israel will be unable to meet its financial obligations and repay its debts on time. Leviev's debt is estimated at nearly Euro 1.4 billion. While this tycoon said in August 2008 that "I will meet all of my obligations, to the last penny," he admitted in the latest press conference, one year later, that he made serious investment (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel

You surely know the Caribbean's legendary beaches. But did you know that in Cuba, where agriculture is heavily based on pig farming, the absence of a recycling system of manure leads to contamination and disease? ...

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- Fundraising / Americas, Cuba, Haiti, Social Ecology, Écologie, campagne

On July 22, a week into Iran's foreign media reporting ban, a group of Iranian protesters gathered on a grassy hill to speak out against Supreme Leader Khamenei's continued support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some wore black T-shirts with a blood-spattered slogan: "Where Is My VOTE?" By midday, the protest had attracted several hundred attendees. One woman arrived wearing little more than a thong swimsuit and a pair of purple angel wings. Iran's security forces, however, (...) - Analysis and Articles / Iran

Hamid Karzai or Abdullah Abdullah? It is not yet clear who will win the Afghan presidential election held on August 20. Both frontrunners, Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, are claiming victory. The official announcement may take ten more days. Most likely the pre-election opinion polls, predicting a run off, will prove wrong. Like his Iranian counterpart, the sitting Afghan president would not take the risk of a second round. The 'Independent' Election Commission will (...) - Analysis and Articles / Afghanistan

The Vietnam War ruined everything. It not only destroyed Vietnam and killed a huge number of its inhabitants. It not only killed so many American soldiers and destroyed the futures of so many veterans. It not only spread into Cambodia and Laos and wrecked those countries for generations. The Vietnam War also killed the Great Society. President Lyndon Johnson, with a large Democratic majority in Congress after the 1964 elections, enacted sweeping reforms in education, health care, and (...) - Articles de l'extérieur / Americas, News and analysis

In an op-ed piece published in the Los Angeles Times, Dr. Neve Gordon, professor of political science at Ben-Gurion University in Beer Sheva, called for international support of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) campaign. I have already explained in my blog that the point of this international campaign is to sanction Israel for its occupation policies, colonization and systematic violation of international law and United Nations' resolutions regarding the conflict in (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel, News and analysis

Publication of Report of the UN Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict is an important step, on condition that it is followed up. This is important, first and foremost, for international public hygiene: during two decades of neo-conservative rule in the United States, we were witness to a joint effort of the White House and Israel to annul the norms of international law. Here we can recall the stupid comment of George W. Bush. Bush, in the framework of the global war on terror, argued it (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel, News and analysis

One of the oddest ? indeed, surreal ? encounters around the war in Afghanistan has to be a telephone call this past July 27. On one end of the line was historian Stanley Karnow, author of Vietnam: A History. On the other, State Department special envoy Richard Holbrooke and the U.S. military commander in Afghanistan, General Stanley McChrystal. The question: How can Washington avoid the kind of defeat it suffered in Southeast Asia 40 years ago? Karnow did not divulge what he (...) - Analysis and Articles / Afghanistan, News and analysis

The current global downturn, the worst since the Great Depression 70 years ago, pounded the last nail into the coffin of globalization. Already beleaguered by evidence that showed global poverty and inequality increasing, even as most poor countries experienced little or no economic growth, globalization has been terminally discredited in the last two years. As the much-heralded process of financial and trade interdependence went into reverse, it became the transmission belt not of (...) - Analysis and Articles / Le monde entier, News and analysis

President Rajapaksa's treatment of the independent press is a shocking indictment of a regime that refuses to tolerate criticism. ?The creatures outside looked from pig to man and from man to pig, and from pig to man again; but already it was impossible to say which was which??? Animal Farm by George Orwell The year was 1989. A violent youth insurrection that had terrorised the Sri Lankan populace was being brutally quelled by the state establishment. Bodies were (...) - Analysis and Articles / Sri Lanka

On 31 August 2009, Lev Leviev, the sixth richest Israeli according to Forbes Magazine, convened a press conference and announced that his company Africa Israel will be unable to meet its financial obligations and repay its debts on time. Leviev's debt is estimated at nearly Euro 1.4 billion. While this tycoon said in August 2008 that "I will meet all of my obligations, to the last penny," he admitted in the latest press conference, one year later, that he made serious investment (...) - Analysis and Articles / Israel

You surely know the Caribbean's legendary beaches. But did you know that in Cuba, where agriculture is heavily based on pig farming, the absence of a recycling system of manure leads to contamination and disease? ...

Make a Donation

- Fundraising / Americas, Cuba, Haiti, Social Ecology, Écologie, campagne

On July 22, a week into Iran's foreign media reporting ban, a group of Iranian protesters gathered on a grassy hill to speak out against Supreme Leader Khamenei's continued support for Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Some wore black T-shirts with a blood-spattered slogan: "Where Is My VOTE?" By midday, the protest had attracted several hundred attendees. One woman arrived wearing little more than a thong swimsuit and a pair of purple angel wings. Iran's security forces, however, (...) - Analysis and Articles / Iran

Hamid Karzai or Abdullah Abdullah? It is not yet clear who will win the Afghan presidential election held on August 20. Both frontrunners, Hamid Karzai and Abdullah Abdullah, are claiming victory. The official announcement may take ten more days. Most likely the pre-election opinion polls, predicting a run off, will prove wrong. Like his Iranian counterpart, the sitting Afghan president would not take the risk of a second round. The 'Independent' Election Commission will (...) - Analysis and Articles / Afghanistan