Once a rising star in the industrialized world, Ireland now has the highest per capita national debt in the world – a debt to be paid by the people, not the 1% behind the crash.
Read more at Al Jazeera: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/peopleandpower/2012/01/2012119847466...
Read more ...For the past eight months Chilean high school students have shut down classrooms, organized massive street protests and refused to go to school. Watch this Al Jazeera report about Latin America’s most unequal education system and what young people there are doing to fight back.
Read more ...Chico Mendes, Ken Sarowiwa, Dian Fossey, Joan Root, P.D. Majhi and Amit Jethwa, are just a handful of the thousands of environmental activists murdered for defending the planet. As another year approaches, be reminded of the majesty of the earth that inspired them, and also let it inspire you.
Read more ...On November 13th 2011, economists from the University of Massachusetts Amherst drafted an open statement to the Occupy Wall Street movement pledging their support. Since then, more than 250 economists from around the world have added their names.
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Read more ...The Economics of Happiness explores a world moving simultaneously in two opposing directions. Government and big business promoting globalization and the consolidation of corporate power while on the other hand communities are coming together to re-build more human scale, ecological economies based on a new paradigm – an economics of localization.
Read more ...Why are republicans and corporate America giving tax cuts and refunds to America's wealthiest corporations, whilst welfare families, low-income and middle class communities, teachers, children and the elderly are being asked to sacrifice basic rights and access to resources like education and medicaid? Bernie Sanders in this video calls us to action by addressing the broken economic system that is American corporate politics.
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