EDITORIAL: People?s power in the Philippines (Marc Nerfin)..... LOCAL SPACE: Role of Asian people?s organizations (N.S. Khan and K. Bhasin)...Consumer mutual aid: Response to the Polish crisis? (L.A. Paga)...Leçons d?une expérience d?inventaire technologique (Xavier Maureau et Maria Cecilia Londres Fonseca)... Brazilian people?s association addresses the WCED... Social innovation in the urban setting (Ignacy Sachs)..... NATIONAL SPACE: Disappearance of family farm in the US (Mark Ritchie)..... REGIONAL SPACE: The Nigerian economy, factor mobility and West African economic development (Uka Ezenwe)..... NEWS FROM THE THIRD SYSTEM: Arab intellectuals stand in defense of human rights ... Lesotho: Thaba Khupa... SINA: Settlements Information Network - Africa... ILET Unidad de Comunicación Alternativa de la Mujer... Paraguay: Educación, capacicacion y tecnología campesina... Ecuador: CATER, Centro Andino de Tecnología Rural 77 Jamaica: International School and Workshop... Women writers of the Americas for Caribbean Parley... Sri Lanka: Ootru Organisation... Malaysia: Burkit Merah Residents win court injunction... India: Centre for Development Studies and Activities... Lawasia... USA: A people?s conference on the fate of our forests... The Danish Centre for Renewable Energy... LETTERS/FOOTNOTES/MATERIALS RECEIVED FOR PUBLICATION