The second hope (in creating an opposition to the neo-liberal party) is a popular global uprising. It has to be global to match the scale of the force and the structures it must challenge. Beyond that, it’s difficult to know what it might look like because practically the only thing...
So just who is in charge of this planet? Is it a small group of people with one plan? A large group of people with lots of competing plans? Does it even make sense to think of ‘control’ in these terms at all?
In his interview with Evan Davis on BBC’s Newsnight, Russell Brand makes a few points about the urgent need for systematic change. Check out the entire interview here.
This webinar will examine and invite debate on the evidence behind concerns about the approach being taken to “fix” public attitudes to development by The Narrative Project and, particularly, the Gates Foundation.
We know that many people in the UK misunderstand poverty and development: there’s reams of evidence on that. But there are interesting lessons to be had when we look at what it is that they actually think. For example: the idea that Oxfam run orphanages, something that surfaced when Oxfam...
The way people perceive poverty is problematic. For years, popular media and advertising has made us believe that poverty is natural. It happens to people who don’t work hard enough. That’s not true.
This is an excerpt from a discussion between Dr. Jason Hickel of the London School of Economics (LSE) and Alnoor Ladha of /The Rules that took place at the LSE in early 2014.
