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Why The Mainstream Media Doesn’t Want You To Know What Happened In Iceland

October 27, 2015 by Guest No Comments

Lee Camp - Redacted on Iceland. Three more Icelandic bankers including a chief executive have been given prison sentences as the country’s criminal investigations continue surrounding the crash of 2008.

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The woman who chose to plant corn

October 14, 2015 by Guest 4 Comments

It is one kind of revolution to enter the halls of power with the intent to turn them against themselves; to (paraphrasing the Caribbean-American writer Audre Lord) use the master’s tools to dismantle the master’s house. It is a deeper kind of revolution to recognise the limitations of those tools,...

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Haciéndole frente al cambio climático desde la justicia y la interseccionalidad

October 11, 2015 by Guest No Comments

Apuntes para una sociedad civil organizada frente a la crisis climática

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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...

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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...

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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,...

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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.

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

UN Millennium Development Goals replaced by new ‘distraction gimmicks’

September 27, 2015 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.