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The Mararikulam Experiment
What is the Mararikulam Experiment? It is one of the most important recent attempts to create an alternative to globalization and to create a world based more on social justice than on "free trade" and profit. The Mararikulam Experiment is based on idealism but it is designed to meet the practical realities of our present-day world. It builds on decades of social justice struggles in India's Kerala State and carries them forward in Mahatma Gandhi's spirit of self-reliance and the beliefs of all the activists and revolutionaries who have dreamed of and acted to make a better world.
On 11 May 2002, the Neighborhood Self-Help Groups (NHGs) of the Mararikulam area of Kerala brought together 30,000 women to pledge their solidarity in a vast experiment to build a self-reliant local economy that will overcome poverty and resist the harmful effects of globalization.
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Maari Soap The Mari Pledge The Mari Seminar Where is Mararikulam? The Name Mararikulam The Mararikulam Project