The article originally appeared on Common Dreams on 17th April 2015. Reach the author on Twitter at: @martinkirk_ny. There is a battle raging over the future of farming on this planet, and the front line, this week, is at the Spring Meetings of the World Bank...
“For anyone to truly shake things up, they would need to alter the logic of the system itself. They would need to change its pattern.” The One Party Planet The good news is that patterns are changing. It is people like you and me who are changing them. Earlier this...
On a normal day, not many stood around and watched this ordinary wall in a football field in Githurai in Nairobi. Things changed on October 1 2014, when a group of activists, artists and local community members decided to give this wall a makeover. Take a look at what...
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. As the Bank discussed its future plans, we...
Reality, when served with the right amount of humour, becomes easy to digest. The issue of income inequality and the widening gap in America received this very special treatment from John Oliver. On Last Week Tonight’s July 13 2014 episode, John Oliver picked every...
