Ring Nebula: Shady Side & @Fettes_College students! Interested in FREE-to-students' online Bachelor degrees beginning in January 2021, & studying verified courses from edX (founded by Harvard & MIT), email info@ http://worlduniversityandschool.org. * * * Leanna Prater - Lego robotics * * * Wonderful presentations - Yale University Professor Ana De La O on "Crafting Policies to End Poverty" at Stanford as Zoom talk * Thanks for your Stanford talk - Professor Maria Victoria Murillo * * * Seems like there's more of a vision of love in the 'church' than in any other institution in society eg govts, companies, universities, phil depts in univs etc, & am appreciative of the Unitarian Church in these regards, since you & Dad met & married there, & I've learned to love - as in caring & loving - much from your wonderful love, and experientially inside

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CC-4 MIT OCW-centric wiki World University and School is seeking to create new online degree-granting universities in Latin America - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Nation_States (each a major online university) and in Spanish -https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Spanish_language - as well as wiki schools in ALL languages in Latin America, for open teaching and learning - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Languages - and potentially for the peoples of Latin America to discuss how to make their own institutions stronger, informed by your excellent talk, and perhaps have more of a say in questions like how to stop poverty there, and regarding cash transfers. Thank you.

While there's a Poverty Action wiki subject - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/Poverty_Action - there are only a few MIT OCW courses (which will eventually be for credit) to give you some idea about how MIT OCW-centric wiki World Univ & Sch works. 

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As a Castellian myself (Manuel Castells), am interested in exploring about how best to teach about the information technology revolution further in Latin America - http://worlduniversityandschool.org/InfoTechNetworkSocGlobalUniv.html ...

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Are you familiar with this recent book by Manuel Castells? 

The New Latin America
by Fernando Calderón, Manuel Castells, Ramsey McGlazer (Translation)
Latin America has experienced a profound transformation in the first two decades of the 21st century: it has been fully incorporated into the global economy, while excluding regions and populations devalued by the logic of capitalism. Technological modernization has gone hand-in-hand with the reshaping of old identities and the emergence of new ones.

The transformation of Latin America has been shaped by social movements and political conflicts. The neoliberal model that dominated the first stage of the transformation induced widespread inequality and poverty, and triggered social explosions that led to its own collapse. A new model, neo-developmentalism, emerged from these crises as national populist movements were elected to government in several countries. The more the state intervened in the economy, the more it became vulnerable to corruption, until the rampant criminal economy came to penetrate state institutions. Upper middle classes defending their privileges and citizens indignant because of corruption of the political elites revolted against the new regimes, undermining the model of neo-developmentalism. In the midst of political disaffection and public despair, new social movements, women, youth, indigenous people, workers, peasants, opened up avenues of hope against the background of darkness invading the continent.

This book, written by two leading scholars of Latin America, provides a comprehensive and up-do-date account of the new Latin America that is in the process of taking shape today. It will be an indispensable text for students and scholars in Latin American Studies, sociology, politics and media and communication studies, and anyone interested in Latin America today.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50551063-the-new-latin-america#_=_ 

Dear Professor Murillo, 

Thanks for your Stanford talk - 

Observers often take institutional weakness as an exogenous feature of the landscape, decrying the many ways in which weak institutions get in the way of accomplishing various political agendas. In the book "The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America, Brinks, Levitsky and Murillo turn the tables, showing the ways in which institutional weakness is itself a political strategy. Their analysis draws on the contributions of chapters covering an array of formal institutions, from constitutions and electoral rules, to labor laws and indigenous rights regimes.

https://mailchi.mp/stanford.edu/today-clas-friday-lecture-with-prof-maria-victoria-murillo-at-100-pm?e=94f78f5eea ...