Social Movements
Social movements can be described most simply as collective attempts to promote or resist change in a society or group. The degree of change advocated and the level at which changes a...
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President Evo Morales is dismissing the importance of a deadlocked assembly struggling to rewrite Bolivia's constitution, saying that his administration will push forward with his populist reforms ...
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China needs political reform to effectively curb its greenhouse
gas emissions as its economy continues to grow, an influential
Japanese economist says.
Naoki Tanaka, an economic policy ana...
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Aparecida do Norte, Brazil (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI on Sunday
called upon Latin American bishops to remain united to preserve
Catholic faith and to intensify evangelizing e...
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San Jose, Costa Rica (dpa) - Costa Ricans voted Sunday in favour
of ratifying the United States-Central America Free Trade Agreement
(CAFTA), according to preliminary result...
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BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's Nestor Kirchner
steps down as president next week but he won't be giving up the
presidential residence -- or his political influence. Kirchner swaps jobs with ...
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Aparecida, Brazil (dpa) - Pope Benedict XVI opened a key
conference of Latin American bishops Sunday to close his five-day
pastoral visit to Brazil, his first trip to the Am...
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Islamabad (dpa) - A shared wedding with 24 other couples was not
the nuptial send-off that 36-year-old Pakistani bride Rukhsana had
dreamed of since she was a child.
...
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San Jose (dpa) - Costa Ricans are preparing to vote in a razor-
close referendum on Sunday that could kill Costa Rica's participation
in the United States-Central America Fr...
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The setting was intimate, the hors d'oeuvres simple and the hostess barefoot, but the house party Gabby Seagrave and LaDonna Silva held for a dozen friends and co-workers was hardly a spontaneous a...
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A white supremacist from Texas lifted his black cowboy hat into the air as he stepped forward to address thousands of Russian nationalists at a rally Sunday in Moscow."I'm taking my hat off as a si...
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Social Movements
Morales vows to push populist reforms
