PROMOTING PEACEFUL, CONVIVIAL & SUSTAINABLE DEGROWTH IN THE MEDITERRANEAN & THE CARIBBEAN

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The Center for Multilateral Progress is an independent Paris-based nonprofit "Association Loi 1901" founded in 2007 to promote peace, justice and social progress. Today the CMP is dedicated to redefining human progress by helping forward peaceful, convivial and sustainable degrowth (+). We believe degrowth to offer credible alternatives to the undemocratic, socially and environmentally destructive forces that are (green) capitalism, globalization, productivism and consumerism. Our aim is to encourage multilateral dialogue and local action in the Mediterranean and Caribbean regions through educational, cultural and political initiatives.

  

CMP DEGROWTH ACTIVISM

Decrecimiento Puerto Rico is our flagship degrowth project, a new radical movement on the frontline of the American Empire, established in the heart of the Caribbean in July of 2010. To find out more about Decrecimiento Puerto Rico's initiatives visit DecrecimientoPR.org. The site also features links to degrowth and other similar movements from around the world.

CMP DEGROWTH PRINTED MATTER

Critical Printing Program: Promoting and supporting the distribution of publications of critical thinking in bookstores, libraries and cultural centers.

Libreria El Caracol, Decrecimiento Puerto Rico's bookstore, features books on degrowth, alter-globalization and the slow movement in several languages.

 

NEWS

Italy's il Manifesto newspaper needs your help

Join Eduardo Galeano, Tariq Ali, Victor Navasky, André Schiffrin and many more in supporting Italy's last remaining Left wing daily newspaper as it struggles to survive after the suspension of government subsidies. The suspension recently led to the closing of the only other anti-capitalist daily, Liberazione. Il Manifesto, the Italian partner of Le Monde diplomatique, is organized as a cooperative and is supported in part by a broad network of circoli, located all over Italy. The paper has been a key platform for the Italian Left over the last 40 years, showcasing a wide variety of perspectives that make up the Italian and international Left. It is an active supporter of social movements and a key promoter in the fight for the bene comuni or commons taking place in Italy and worldwide. Over the last few years we were particularly pleased to see the paper, through several of its writers, give voice to the degrowth movement. International solidarity is now more than ever needed as critical thinking--and specifically in the form of independent, printed newspapers--is ever marginalized in Europe and beyond. See related articles in Marcha, l'Humanité. About il Manifesto (Wikipedia). Find out how you can support il Manifesto.

 

International degrowth events for 2012

Visit our links page for a list of events that include the Montreal and Venice degrowth conferences.  

"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist." — Kenneth Boulding