A study prepared for the US military recommends development of techniques to monitor and counter the activities of NGOs using Internet communication.
The study was sponsored by the US Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence and was produced in the RAND Arroyo Center's Strategy and Doctrine Program.
The Arroyo Center is a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the United States Army.
Based on an analysis of the international solidarity developed by NGOs in support of the Zapatistas, it particularly targets the Association for Progressive Communications (APC), described as"a worldwide partnership of member networks (like Peacenet and Conflictnet) that provides low-cost computer communications services and information-sharing tools to individuals and NGOs working on social issues."
The full report (in Adobe Acrobat format) is at:
www.rand.org/publications/MR/MR994/
MR994.pdf/
For more information on this theme visit www.eGroups.com/list/mediamentor findings of progressive values within the evangelical movement, and dynamics of exclusion within "liberation theology" sectors.
Some black activists welcomed the racial integration of the evangelical churches. Others saw this as proof of the false consciousness of those blacks and browns who did not prioritise blacks as friends and spouses.
Fortunately, research like Burdick's has helped socialists in all Brazil's religions to widen their understanding of racial, sexual and religious dynamics among the poor, and to regroup their forces for a new struggle to bring Christians into the social movements, and articulate spiritual and theological concerns that correspond to the preoccupations of ordinary people rather than the religious hierarchy. * reviewed by Mark Johnson Correction
The Marxism of Ernest Mandel will be published by Verso, not by Pluto, as announced in this section last month. *
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