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		<description><![CDATA[Report on the International Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy held in Montreal, October 17-20, 2011&#60; http://www.fiess2011.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Report-on-the-FIESS.pdf     &#60; Rapport sur le Forum International de l’Économie Sociale et Solidaire tenu à Montréal, du 17 au 20 octobre 2011.&#60;  http://www.fiess2011.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/apercu_bilan_fiess.pdf<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=197&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Reflections inspired by ASEF III</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yvon Poirier Canadian Community Economic Development Network Member of RIPESS North America November 14, 2011 The promotion of Solidarity Economy in Asia has made great strides in the last years. Having had the privilege of attending ASEF I in Manila in 2007, and Tokyo in 2009; I fully agree with the Ben’s assessment of the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=174&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>REFLECTIONS ON ASEF KL 2011</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[by Benjamin R. Quiñones, Jr. Chairman, CSRSME Asia November 9, 2011 The Third Asian Solidarity Economy Forum (ASEF) held in Kuala Lumpur on October 31 &#8211; November 2, 2011 was a turning point for a number of reasons. First, ASEF KL 2011 was marked with great diversity in participation. In terms of country representation, ASEF [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=172&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>BRIEF REPORT ON THE ASIAN SOLIDARITY ECONOMY FORUM</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Brief Reflections by ASEF KL2011 Chair Datuk Dr Denison Jayasooria November 5, 2011 We very successfully hosted the 3rd Asian Solidarity Economy Forum from Oct 31 to Nov 2, 2011 at Kuala Lumpur. I am deeply grateful to all the volunteers who worked hard and the 100 over people who served as moderators, speakers, taking [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=170&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>International Forum on the Social and Solidarity Economy</title>
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		<title>Press release / Communiqué</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[«English» April 6th, 2011 From March 28 to 31, in Paris, the Board of Directors of RIPESS (Intercontinental Network for the Promotion of the Social Solidarity Economy) met and took note of the significant advances of the social and solidarity economy movement in all the continents&#8230; During the meeting, the Board confirmed its determination to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=155&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Solidarity Economy: Origins and development of the concept and the movement</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Nov 2010 13:46:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[«English» «Français» The expression «Social economy» goes back to the mid 19th Century. Historians consider that the first modern example of social economy is the creation of the Rochdale Equitable Pioneers Society in the United Kingdom (1844). The concept itself became known in France with Charles Dunoyer who published in 1830 Nouveau traité d’économie sociale [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=142&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>New publication</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 18:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Solidarity Economy I: Building Alternatives for People and Planet By Emily Kawano Paperback: $25.00 Ships in 3–5 business days Another world is not just possible. It is being built. So many of us wish for something more—an economy we can feel a partf, not that makes us feel like a disposable cog in a soulless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ripessna.wordpress.com&amp;blog=12631694&amp;post=138&amp;subd=ripessna&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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