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The Shifting Geography of Protest (Redux)

February 1, 2020 by The Editors

Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion Map of Earth

Long ago, and in all four of our print editions, the OTC ran a feature called “The Shifting Geography of Protest: A Global Digest,” in which we listed and summarized all the different areas of the world in which protests had erupted. The feature was inspired by a blog written by the late, distinguished sociologist …

The Non-Profit Government Complex

September 12, 2014May 25, 2013 by Dawn Marie Paley

Cover of book "Paved with Good Intentions" by Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay

AGAINST THE CURRENT IN ONE SENSE, I came of age with regard to the problems with Canadian Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) around the same time that Nikolas Barry-Shaw and Dru Oja Jay’s new book Paved with Good Intentions was conceived. In late 2003 I had stayed for four months in Johannesburg, South Africa on a journalism …