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Building pressure
Sen. Bernie Sanders celebrates the attention the Occupy Wall Street protest has brought to the need for sweeping Wall Street reform
Mounds of Courage
This is a beautiful account of a woman’s choice of freedom over fear. In this video an Egyptian journalist is successfully challenging security guards trying to raid her office. More on the empowerment of citizens in this article by Mark … Continue reading
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Enough
Enough of the news, the hysteria and the panic. In the past few months it has become crystal clear that the world we live in has been built on a few fatal, yet stubborn illusions and what we see happening … Continue reading
Government vs citizens
By Nicholas Kulish Hundreds of thousands of disillusioned Indians cheer a rural activist on a hunger strike. Israel reels before the largest street demonstrations in its history. Enraged young people in Spain and Greece take over public squares across their countries. Their complaints range from corruption … Continue reading
Back to the beginning
By Thomas L Friedman Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu of Israel, the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, and President Obama all spoke at the U.N. last week and, honestly, it is hard to decide whose speech was worse. Netanyahu’s read like a … Continue reading
Care for the collective
Just a few kids ? Occupy Wall Street is leaderless resistance movement with people of many colors, genders and political persuasions. The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99% that will no longer tolerate the greed … Continue reading
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Tagged Leaderless resistance, New York City, Occupy Wall Street, The 99%, Wall Street
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Terrified, but bored
By Paul Krugman Is it possible to be both terrified and bored? That’s how I feel about the negotiations now under way over how to respond to Europe’s economic crisis, and I suspect other observers share the sentiment. On one … Continue reading
Important, but impotent
By Danny Schechter One of the most astute critics of the United Nations was a man who worked there for years and worshipped its ambitions. His name was Conor Cruise O’Brien, an Irish diplomat and extraordinary writer who savaged the institution … Continue reading
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Activist Debby Chan takes on one of the world’s favourite brands in her fight for workers’ rights.
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Tagged Activism, brand, worker's rights
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