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Collecting signatures for a referendum that compels the legislature to consider human rights-based legislation

Poder Ciudadano (Citizen Power) collected signatures on two petitions that, through a constitutional provision, obligated the Argentine Congress to consider community-proposed legislation regarding two socio-economic issues: pensions of privilege, a system of excessive retirement benefits for former government officials (even for those known to be corrupt); and hunger, especially of children and pregnant women.  The overarching goal of the petition campaign tactic was not only to obligate the Congress to address these problems, but also to propose solutions to alleviate them.
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Collecting signatures for a referendum that compels the legislature to consider human rights-based legislation
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Dialogue: Invest in Strategy

Philippe Duhamel's picture

strategy graphJust like riots, spontaneous acts of defiance and improvised strings of actions are mere brush fires: quickly ignited, quickly extinguished. When you’re always reacting, you end up disempowered.

Civil resistance is not magic. It may succeed, or it may fail. But don't leave it to chance.

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Dialogue: CALL FOR CASES/INFORMATION: Research project on citizen participation & NV civic action to fight corruption seeks input

shaazka's picture

I am conducting an in-depth research project to document and study cases of citizen participation and nonviolent civic action to fight corruption, in order to distill general lessons learned and best practices. The focus is on what people--organized together, exerting their collective power--are doing to fight corruption as they themselves have discerned it. The project will examine the skills, strategies, objectives, and demands of nonviolent civic campaigns and movements, rather than the phenomenon of corruption itself, or the conditions under which it occurs.

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