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My environmentalism will be intersectional or it will be bullshit

November 9, 2015 by Guest 2 Comments

The environmental movement will never save the planet unless it actively focuses its ire clearly on those who are most to blame for the crisis - the powerful.

Campaigns, Featured, Money, The story of poverty

Could you live on $1.90 a day? That’s the international poverty line

November 2, 2015 by Jason 2 Comments

Nothing has actually changed in the real world, of course; there are just as many poor people as there were before. But the development industry has been happy to take the new story on board, claiming gains against poverty that haven’t actually happened. The NGO community is celebrating the fact...

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Globalization and Terror: The Violent Effects of Capitalist Culture

October 29, 2015 by Guest 3 Comments

While people around the world have been horrified by the beheadings and similar acts of wanton violence perpetrated by ISIS, most seem mystified by the origins of the anger that can lead to such atrocities.

Alternatives, Featured, Ideas, Money, Power

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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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...

Featured, Money, Power, Whistle blow Wall Street

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

October 7, 2015 by The Rules 1 Comment

Whistleblow Wall Street makes it easier for bank workers to expose harmful and unjust practices

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Bureau of Sex Slavery

October 6, 2015 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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