Direct Action

"Direct Action," says Wikipedia, "can include such activities as strikes, boycotts, workplace occupations, sit-ins, intimidation, revolutionary/guerrilla warfare, or sabotage, and less oppositional methods such as establishing radical social centres, which are often squatted. Direct actions are often (but not always) a form of civil disobedience, and are sometimes illegal." Listen to what a couple of GeneratingMomentum 2006 students learned about "direct action".

Fair Trade

Fair trade can play a part in helping to achieve the Millenium Development Goals for Africa. Here's a report from two students who attended Generating Momentum 2006, in Winnipeg.

Gender equality in Africa

A pressing issue in Africa is gender equality. Unfortunatly this topic is ignored by most people in North America. The generating momentum conference took a look at it.