Topic: People's movements
The ‘3.5%’ rule: How a small minority can change the world
Article / 23rd May 2019Nonviolent protests are twice as likely to succeed as armed conflicts – and those engaging a threshold of 3.5% of the population have never failed to bring about change, writes David Robson.
Annual Report for 2019: Share the World’s Resources
Report / 9th May 2019As public awareness grows of a multifaceted global emergency, STWR has persisted throughout 2018 in its efforts to promote international economic sharing as the only viable path towards a sustainable future.
Notes from a remarkable political moment for climate change
Blog / 2nd May 2019We're in a new climate moment, but social movements must ramp up pressure towards a Second World War–scale mobilization for ending the fossil fuel age, writes Bill McKibben.
Greta Thunberg is right – only a general strike will force action on climate change
Blog / 25th April 2019Every day at work we all contribute to a system that is burning us alive. Downing tools on 27 September will help change it, writes McEver Dugan and Evan Cholerton from Earth Strike.
Annunciando l’Articolo 25: Una strategia della gente comune per la trasformazione del mondo
Article / 9th April 2019Dopo così tanti anni di inazione politica, solo la buona volontà collettiva della gente comune può portare alla fine della povertà in un mondo d’abbondanza attraverso continue proteste di massa in tutti i paesi.
People power will bring change – not Davos
Blog / 21st March 2019Ultimately, the solutions to inequality will come from those who are at the frontlines of it, not the 1% that caused it and continues to benefit from it. And as anger about shocking levels of inequality continues to grow, so will the movement to fight inequality, writes Jenny Ricks for Inter Press Service.
Talk by Share The World’s Resources at Cambridge University: Reclaiming the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Blog / 9th February 2019STWR teamed up with Cambridge University Amnesty International and the Cambridge Homeless Outreach Programme to outline the case for achieving the UN's longstanding vision of "better standards of life" for all.
Global Peasant Declaration represents huge advance for human rights
Article / 24th December 2018Seventy percent of the world’s population is fed by small-scale producers. These producers, however, face an onslaught of threats related to economic globalisation.
After Paris: countries are not paying their fair share
Report / 14th December 2018A review of climate targets and commitments by each country has been released during the UN climate conference in Poland.
10 demands for an energy system based on people power and justice
Report / 5th December 2018Friends of the Earth International’s People Power Now manifesto sets out positive measures that will accelerate the transition towards a climate just world.