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Jesse Jackson: Democratising democracy
Dr J Schraten
Posted on 01 May 2013

On 29 April 2013, civil rights activist and former shadow U.S. senator for the District of Columbia, Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson, gave a public lecture with the title “Building an Inclusive Democracy” at the UP. In this lecture, he made suggestions which strongly support the aims of the Human Economy Programme. He made a clear distinction between the fight for freedom and the fight for equality and called for more efforts to build conditions for more democratic participation.

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200th birthday of Livingstone: Conference 'Imperial Obessions'
Prof K Hart
Posted on 14 Apr 2013

Keith Hart, Co-director of the Human Economy programme, and Sean Maliehe, one of its PhD candidates, collaborate in an unusual venture on 21st April 2013. This is the bicentenary of David Livingstone's birth and a conference is being held in the town named after him. Imperial Obsessions [http://livingstone2013.net/]: David Livingstone, Africa and world history: a life and legacy reconsidered.

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