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TTIP leak
Featured, Money, Secrets

TTIP leak: What’s in this 103-page document that they don’t want us to see?

February 27, 2015 by The Rules No Comments
A 103-page document with details of the TTIP negotiation has been leaked to the BBC. According to the BBC the document includes a list of things the EU wants to exclude from the deal.
D-Pax in Nairobi
Artivism Lab, Featured, Power, Themes

D-Pax – Haki Yangu (My Rights)

February 25, 2015 by The Rules No Comments
The song Haki Yangu (Kiswahili- ‘my rights’) speaks of the disillusion of youth and Kenyans in general about political and economic elites that continue to enrich themselves in collaboration with imperialist forces.
General, Inappropriate

What brought me to action…

February 24, 2015 by Michael Deppe No Comments
My reason to start networking within the activist communities was an idea of mine. I want to discuss my idea with experienced activists to get a valuable opinion about the feasibility. I think I will have to explain a lot, to prevent being misunderstood.
Concerning violence
Featured

Bringing Fanon’s “Concerning Violence” to film

February 18, 2015 by Alnoor No Comments
I recently watched Concerning Violence and was in awe during the entire duration of the film. What is it about these scenes from colonialism and imperialism that strike a chord at the deepest core of our humanity?
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Power, Themes

The World Bank’s sham conference on land and poverty

by The Rules No Comments
The big question is whose interests the World Bank really serves. While they spend considerable time and money painting themselves as champions of the poor, the Bank has a battery of practices and policies that suggest a very different truth.
Cat and mouse
Featured, General

8 Out of 10 Cats Would Prefer a More Equal World

February 17, 2015 by James 5 Comments
Just 85 cats have as many mice as the poorest 3.5 billion combined. A recent report by Oxfam says that just 85 cats have as many mice as the poorest 3.5 billion cats in the world. Catipalism clearly isn't working out for the majority of cats.
Rock Against Reagan
Capitalism is Just a Story, Ideas, Themes

Music for action: Why am I an activist?

February 16, 2015 by James North 2 Comments
As we launch our new community-focused website we've been asking the question above, and discussing what makes us want to tell #adifferentstory
Featured, Ideas, Themes

“Dominator” vs. “partnership” cultures: A profound re-telling of human history

February 10, 2015 by Guest 4 Comments
Riane Eisler, a world-renowned Austrian-born American systems scientist, writer, and social activist, has proposed that we ought to understand human cultures and societies in terms of two fundamental categories: “dominator” and “partnership.”
One Party Planet - the system ruled by neoliberalism
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Money, Power, Secrets

Syriza party will ‘never ratify’ TTIP

February 6, 2015 by Swati No Comments
The Syriza party has said that it will ‘never ratify’ the TTIP deal. This will be their ‘gift to all European people’. Georgios Katrougkalos, the new deputy minister for administrative reforms, has confirmed that the party stands by the anti-TTIP stance it had even before it came to power.
Inequality 300 richest have as much as 3 billion poorest
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, Ideas

Is the Sustainable Development Goals’ good times narrative for the best?

February 5, 2015 by Martin Kirk 2 Comments
There are, essentially, two grand narratives about these times we live in. We can think of each as a kind of foundational logic, invoked as a way to frame the vastly complex reality we see all around us, and therefore help determine how we understand and respond to it.
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