Media Archive – Page 14

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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.

General, Inappropriate

The Church of Mammon

September 27, 2015 by Airis Dämon 4 Comments

This is a speech to decry the abuses our system of finance, money, and conspicuous consumption have wrought.

Featured, Ideas, Money, Power, The story of poverty

UN Millennium Development Goals replaced by new ‘distraction gimmicks’

by Guest 2 Comments

The ubiquitous ‘development goals’ chosen by the United Nations – first Millennium (MDGs) in 2000 and now Sustainable (SDGs) – were and are and will be a distraction from the real work of fighting poverty done by social justice activists.