Bank Robbery: Inequality and the Banking System
Extreme inequality is the main economic, political and cultural evil of our times.
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The Working of Non-violence
In the wake of the financial crisis, political elites have become more concerned about their own survival than about the purpose of politics, and the gap between what they say and what they do, between speech and meaning, becomes wider all the time.
The Global Economy’s “Impeccable Logic”
Does morality have any place in conventional economic thinking?
Journalist launches online archive to document diversity of rural India
Although Sainath is known for his forceful critiques of people in power and the inequality built into contemporary economics and politics, just as often his newspaper work focused on the dignity of ordinary people in the face of injustice.
How Liberal Democracy Promotes Inequality
…Rates of global inequality are simply unprecedented. And neoliberalism is to blame.
Back to the Future for Economic Inequality
Apart from global warming, it is arguably the rise in economic inequality witnessed over the past forty years that constitutes the most significant threat to our democratic social order.
Let’s win back Barcelona!
When the indignados occupied the public squares of Spain on May 15, 2011, demanding ‘real democracy’, they changed the terms of public debate.
Want to Get into the Doughnut? Tackle Inequality
…we need to get into the doughnut: the safe and just sweet spot between social and planetary boundaries
When Poverty Was the Enemy, Not the Poor
The poverty rate in the U.S. would be 15 percent higher if not for the War on Poverty and government anti-poverty programs since 1967.
How Land Trusts Can Counter New Urbanism’s Gentrifying Tendencies
There are some exciting aspects to New Urbanism but there are downsides as well, including the displacement of lower-income people as new urbanism moves into an area.
Poverty Is Not Inevitable: What We Can Do Now to Turn Things Around
Inequality and poverty are suddenly hot topics, not only in the United States but also across the globe.
Channeling rage into change, from Watts to Ferguson
As news of the protests surrounding Mike Brown’s murder in Ferguson, Mo., has circulated, many have noted an eerie coincidence: last week also marked the 49th anniversary of the Watts Rebellion in Los Angeles…