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Opposition to neoliberalism is growing
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Power

A cohesive movement against the neo-liberal party is taking shape. Are you in?

November 28, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
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...
Neoloiberal ideology rules the world
Do we Live on a One Party Planet?, Featured, Ideas, Power

We live on a One Party Planet

November 18, 2014 by The Rules 9 Comments
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?
Russell Brand On Newsnight
Alternatives, Featured, Ideas, Themes

Russell Brand: capitalism isn’t working

November 3, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
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.
Activists in Nairobi graphiti a wall with a message for the World Bank
Artivism Lab, Commons, Featured, It's The World Vs. The Bank, Money

Nairobi activists leave a message for World Bank

October 31, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
On October 10, 12 countries across the world stepped out to give a message to Bank that the World wanted to it to trash its rankings. The message reached over a million people on social media and was covered by news media online as well.
Landgrabbing in reverse at The World Bank in London
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank

Landgrabbing in Reverse at The World Bank in London

October 21, 2014 by Laura Reeves No Comments
The land grabbing facilitated by the World Bank in the global south inspired us to try some land grabbing of our own here in London. So on the morning of October 10th, a group of actors, poets, academics and activists descended to Milbank Tower, the World Bank HQ in London...
Globalization - what does it mean?
Ideas

Why the Framing of Globalization Matters

October 17, 2014 by Joe Brewer 1 Comment
This report asks, what is globalization? For a long time, it has been equated with neoliberal economic theories and expansion of corporate power.
Outside The World Bank in Washingron, DC to protest against the Doing Business Rankings
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank

#WorldvsBank: protest against the World Bank’s Doing Business Rankings.

October 15, 2014 by Swati No Comments
On October 10, the World Bank met for its Annual General Meeting in Washington DC. We were right outside, not just in DC, but all over the world, condemning and demanding the end of the World Bank’s doing business rankings.
Bill Gates, narrative project
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Ideas

#PovertyDiscourse: webinar 2 September 2014 – The Narrative Project

September 29, 2014 by The Rules 2 Comments
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.
Changing the poverty discourse
Debunking The Gates Foundation Narrative Project, Featured, Ideas

Orphanages, latrines & soap powder: Changing the #PovertyDiscourse

August 29, 2014 by Martin Kirk 1 Comment
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...
Commons, It's The World Vs. The Bank

The hidden hands behind East-West tug of war in Ukraine

August 8, 2014 by The Rules No Comments
News from Brussels on July 28 and from Washington on July 29 that both the EU and US are stepping up sanctions on Russia have been met with a general “it’s about time” from the world.
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