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Alternatives, Commons, Featured, Nine films about food and farming

A Forest of Fortune: Picking Community over Corporations

July 18, 2015 by Swati No Comments
As a chief of his community, Ayal was offered $200,000 for the community land by one of Indonesia’s largest coal mining companies. He refused because he had seen other communities that had sold their land and heard their stories.
Alternatives, Commons, Featured, Nine films about food and farming

‘Not a very Green Revolution’: Truth From India’s Fields.

July 12, 2015 by Swati No Comments
‘Not a very Green Revolution’ a short film by the Source Projects brings out the reality of the Green Revolution from the fields of Punjab.
Capitalism is Just a Story, Commons, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power, Secrets, The story of poverty

10 times the encyclical on climate change didn’t shy from being outright radical

June 22, 2015 by Swati No Comments
Rarely do international leader figures acknowledge the fact that capitalism with its extractive industrial model is responsible for causing the crisis of climate change, poverty and inequality. The Pope's encyclical on climate change didn't miss a change to make this this quite clear.
Featured, General

Is the Game of Thrones Telling us Something about Climate Change?

June 7, 2015 by Swati No Comments
Epic TV series the Game of Thrones is more than just a tale of warring clans, dragons and the undead. The story of Westeros has some direct references to the climate change crisis.
Alternatives, Capitalism is Just a Story, Featured

We are The Rules because we want to change the rules that create poverty

June 5, 2015 by Swati No Comments
What does The Rules do? Martin Kirk answers this and many other questions about the organisation.
4 reasons to question poverty eradication story
Alternatives, Capitalism is Just a Story, Featured, Money

Her speech at a UN meeting exposed the problems with its development agenda

May 14, 2015 by Swati 4 Comments
The United Nation's agenda to end poverty misses out on dealing with the systems that have created poverty. Tessa Khan from APWLD pointed out this problem in her speech at the UN's Financing for Development hearings.
Featured, General

Remembering the struggles of May Day

May 1, 2015 by Swati 3 Comments
The history of May Day is a story of intense struggle. Let’s take a look back at the struggle with some posters from across the world
Featured, General, Ideas

Seven Eduardo Galeano Quotes to Stir the Revolutionary in You

April 30, 2015 by Swati No Comments
Here are some iconic quotes from the great Eduardo Galeano. Be prepared for some serious revolutionary inspiration.
Development doesn't work
Capitalism is Just a Story, Commons, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money, Secrets

The World Bank Displaced a Population Roughly the Size of Berlin

April 28, 2015 by Swati No Comments
Alnoor Ladha talks to The Real News about how the World Bank and the IMF have always facilitated interests of western corporations.
Going against the crowd
Capitalism is Just a Story, Commons, Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, General, Secrets

It’s official: TPP leak confirms corporations to be given more power over governments

March 27, 2015 by Swati 6 Comments
The controversial Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) deal is designed to give corporations more power over domestic laws, including environment, labour and other safeguards. This and other revelations about the TPP came forth after Wikileaks released the Investment Chapter of the deal on March 25, 2015.
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