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Facing climate change through justice and intersectionality

October 10, 2015 by Guest 1 Comment
When we talk about climate change and the actions we must take to address it, we usually rely on two concepts or areas of action: mitigation of greenhouse gas emissions and adapting to the impacts of emissions we are unable to mitigate. In recent years, climate justice organizations in various...
Ideas, Money, Power, The story of poverty

Global Goals – The party’s over

October 8, 2015 by The Rules 5 Comments
The glitter has settled over New York, celebrities and world leaders have flown home and the party is over. A week after the adoption of the United Nations’ seventeen Sustainable Development Goals, we take a moment to reflect on the Global Goals and the efforts of The Rules community to...
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5 Reasons why mr. economy needs therapy

October 7, 2015 by Francesca Escoto 1 Comment
The narrative promoted by what I call hyper-capitalism is based on the notion that "the economy" is an entity of its own, that functions and balances in an quasi-magical way, albeit in collaboration with the other entity, "the free market". So in this post, I take the liberty to go...
Featured, Money, Power, Whistle blow Wall Street

New Campaign to Help Bank Workers Blow the Whistle on Corruption and Abuse in their Global Industry

by The Rules 1 Comment
Whistleblow Wall Street makes it easier for bank workers to expose harmful and unjust practices
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Power

Peru, the poster child for the World Bank in Latin America

October 6, 2015 by Guest 2 Comments
Peru is the host of the 2015 World Bank-International Monetary Fund (IMF) Annual Meetings, taking place in Latin America for the first time in over 40 years. The two Bretton Woods institutions, criticised for their record of lowering social and environmental conditions, seek to showcase Peru as a “success” of...
The World Bank meeting is happening in Peru
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Power

Civil Society Comes Together in Latin America to Challenge the World Bank’s Annual Meetings

by The Rules No Comments
Civil society organisations, Indigenous communities, and social movements come together to challenge the World Bank’s neoliberal agenda, which has caused massive environmental destruction and social distress on the Latin American continent.
Featured, Power

Bureau of Sex Slavery

by Guest 4 Comments
I am thinking of the women, the thousands of women around this world who have worked endlessly for years and years exhausting every fiber of their beings to make rape real, to end this pathology of violence and hatred towards us and no matter how logical we are, how patient,...
Featured, Money, Power, Secrets

The Trans-Pacific Free-Trade Charade

October 4, 2015 by Guest No Comments
As negotiators and ministers from the United States and 11 other Pacific Rim countries meet in Atlanta in an effort to finalize the details of the sweeping new Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), some sober analysis is warranted.
Featured, Ideas, The story of poverty

‘When it clicked’ – I chanced upon a series of eye-opening discussions on social justice with a friend

October 2, 2015 by Guest 3 Comments
About five years ago, I chanced upon a series of eye-opening discussions on social justice with a friend that made me realize that pretty much all I had assumed till then was fundamentally flawed.
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