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News clip about the arrest of 70 young people in Havana, Cuba for wearing a bracelet with the word CAMBIO

Oded Grajew has turned his eye for organizing business towards uniting and empowering the citizen sector. He describes the founding of the World Social Forum, a unique transnational process for dialogue, collaboration, and coalition-building. Each year, the process culminates in a global gathering of over 150,000 people and organizations - who craft campaigns and action plans to bring about peace, development and a better world for all. Here, he explains how the Forum works, revealing the newest civil society organizing techniques and methods. He examines the economic values driving globalization and shows how the market could be reframed for the benefit of citizens as well as companies. He calls for values and voices that drive sustainable social policy.

Led by social entrepreneurs, a new "citizen sector" is emerging - entrepreneurial, competitive, innovative, and effective. Bill Drayton discusses the sector's rapid rise and its profound implications for business, government leaders, citizen groups, and educators. Those who do not engage and leverage the new actors who are driving such dramatic change will miss out on major opportunities in their own work.

What is a social entrepreneur? The creator of the field of social entrepreneurship describes how social entrepreneurs work, how together they are transforming how almost everything works in society. He also illuminates how everyone can contribute in many different ways.

Bill Drayton shares his story of building a global entrepreneurial organization, and a movement with unstoppable momentum. As a life-long social entrepreneur, and the architect of the field of social entrepreneurship, he offers incomparable guidance on how to create widespread social change -using new visions, strategies, tools, and determination.

From a few dollars exchanged with handshakes to multi-million dollar kickbacks, widespread corruption undermines stability and perpetuates unfair systems across the globe. Peter Eigen has lead the global coalition against corruption for many years. Here he examines the toll of corruption. He shows how new social, political, and legal breakthroughs and strategies offer great hope of overcoming it. He explains how everyone can join the growing campaign to eliminate one of humanity's greatest causes of injustice.

Can businesses measure success beyond profit? Muhummad Yunus, global leader of the microcredit revolution, shares his strategies for building connections between business and social sectors. He describes Grameen Bank, Grameen Telecom and many other companies in the Grameen Family of Companies - thriving examples of the potential of hybrid social business ventures. Yunus' vision challenges every person in business and in school today. His model of 'non-loss business,' as opposed to profit-maximizing or not-for-profit organizations, is creating better business and a better world.

Muhammad Yunus' unique approach to eradicating poverty is a triumph of practical innovation. Here he demonstrates how Grameen Bank and the Grameen Family of Companies offer viable solutions to age-old challenges. He illumiates next steps for the global microfinance revolution. He envisions a new kind of capitalism - explaining how to use new structures and business principles to produce prosperity and to correct past errors that led to poverty today.