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Doron Isaacs: Equal Education in South Africa

Published on May 4, 2012 in Recommendations

The Patterns We met up with Doron Issacs who heads up Equal Education, an organization, as its name represents, which is focused on the idea of creating a social movement around the right to equal education. The discussion covered a number of issues, namely:   The concepting of the organization-, which came out of the

 
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Seminar by Eddie Webster — “The rise of the workers movement and the politics of the ANC (1973-1994)”

On Monday, 23 April 2012 Eddie Webster will be presenting at the monthly Ndifuna Ukwazi seminar series on The rise of the workers movement and the politics of the ANC (1973-1994). We are honoured to host him. For those who cannot attend it will be live-streamed. Webster has been a constant voice in South Africa’s

 
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Equal Education Law Centre Seminar Series: Constitutional Remedies by Adv. Geoff Budlender (SC)

The first Seminar from the Series focused on the role of the parties in framing the remedies they ask for in a way that will ensure effective outcomes. It also addressed the delicate balancing act required from the Court to ensure that it awards effective remedies in a manner that safeguards our democratic values and principles.

 
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Social Media in a Time of Social Movement

Mary Joyce has been a consultant to the Open Society Health Media Initiative since 2009 and is the founder of the Meta-Activism Project, a nontraditional digital activism think tank. In an Open Society Foundations blog, she writes about how NGOs and non-profit organisations can use social media in innovative ways to publicise their work. In

 
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Jennifer Pahlka: Coding a better government

Can government be run like the Internet, permissionless and open? Coder and activist Jennifer Pahlka believes it can — and that apps, built quickly and cheaply, are a powerful new way to connect citizens to their governments — and their neighbors. Jennifer Pahlka is the founder of Code for America, which matches software geniuses with

 
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