Social Activism
How do you supress a movement like Occupy?
Police a faced with Occupy Melbourne deploying Tent Monsters ... worked like a treat!
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Open file 1601
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Music, Society and Economy
Music is a part of humanity
Astrud Gilberta and The Girl from Ipanema 1964
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Open file 1602
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Unions, Society and Economy
Is organized labor an important resurging force?
Organized labor has been an important force in the last 150 years Popular Power: US labor unions pick up the Occupy call
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Open file 1603
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Energy, Society and Economy
Renewable energy ... solar
Fox News Attacks ‘Failing’ Solar Company As Parent Company News Corp Invests In The Same Solar Company
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Activism, Society and Economy
Protester files suit against NYC and NYPD
Woman Arrested After Closing Citibank Account in Protest Files Federal Suit Against NYC, NYPD
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Banking, Finance, Society and Economy
Rule of law not applicable to bankers
60 Minutes ... Behind the financial crisis: Steve Kroft, Tom Borgers, Eileen Foster Richard Bowen, Frank Partnoy, Lanny Breuer, Countrywide / Bank of America fraud Sarbanes Oxley Act and little or no prosecution of bankers?
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People ... US Politics
Mitt Romney
Rachel Maddow explains how Mitt Romney is a big part of the American problem
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Open file 1607
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Activism, Society and Economy
Occupy Movement moves from public spaces to foreclosed properties
Rchel Maddow describes how the Occupy Movement is starting to act on behalf of the dispossessed
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Activism, Society and Economy
Occupy LA ... protesters versus police
November 30th 2011 ... Photojournalist Tyson Zoltan Heder beaten and detained by LAPD at Occupy Los Angeles
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Data about Society and Economy ... USA
Time series of income by class
Income trends by economic class 1947-73, 1974-2009
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Society and Economy
Fault Lines: The Top 1%
AlJazeera Fault Lines ... The richest 1% of US Americans earn nearly a quarter of the country's income and control an astonishing 40% of its wealth
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Banking, Finance, Society and Economy
Goldman Sachs charged with fraud
April 2010 ... The US government has charged the investment bank Goldman Sachs with fraud.
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Incentives, Society and Economy
What is the distribution of surplus and why?
Since 2009, 88 Percent Of Income Growth Went To Corporate Profits, Just One Percent Went To Wages
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Incentives, Society and Economy
Incestuous circle all focused on plunder
John Perkins ... Economic Hitmen - Understanding NWO Mafia Corporatism Warfare - IMF Whistleblower
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Open file 1614
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People
Wangari Maathai
Wangari Maathai ... environmentalist and leader ... Nobel Prize Winner
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Food, Society and Economy
Somalia famine in 2011
Fault Lines - Horn of Africa Crisis: Somalia's Famine in 2011 ... a catastrophic crisis caused by human greed and insompetence
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Consumption, society and economy
Black Friday was blacker than we knew
The Black Friday shopping spree was more about consumer desperation than about consumer confidence.
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Gender, Society and Economy
Women in Britain are fed up
Why British women are being turned off the men in charge of the country 'who haven't got a clue what matters to women'.
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Open file 1618
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Country ... Iran
US: Edging closer towards war with Iran?
The biggest problem for the US is not Iran getting a nuclear weapon and testing it, but getting it and not using it.
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People
Gene Sharp
Al Jazeera talks with Gene Sharp, a quiet but influential scholar of non-violent struggle.
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Open file 1620
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Transparency, Society and Economy
More corruption ... less development
Corruption and development ... Corrosive corruption is a constraint on development
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Open file 1621
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People ... Banking 1%
John Stumpf ... Wells Fargo CEO
Occupy Protesters Mic Check Wells Fargo CEO in talk at NC State in November 2011
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Open file 1622
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People ... CEO 1%
Wes Bush , Robert Stevens , James McNerney
War industry CEOs make tens of millions of dollars a year, putting them in the top 0.01 percent of income earners in the U.S.
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Activism, Society and Economy
Occupy Wall Street Humor
Bill Maher on Occupy Wall Street [New Rules]
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Activism, Society and Economy
Bank of America does not have customer focus!
Bank of America in St. Louis refuses to let customers close accounts ... on August 12th before Occupy got started!
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Climate, Society and Economy
In need of climate justice
Desmond Tutu and Mary Robinson ... 'The richest countries caused the problem, but it is the world's poorest who are suffering from the effects.'
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Open file 1626
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Corruption, Society and Economy
Energy companies important funders of US politics
Corporate money flowing to politicians is a present danger ... analysis of what BP has paid
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Open file 1627
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Police, Society and Economy
Protecting Freedom
An Open Message to Police, Military and Security personnel in connection with activism and the Occupy Movement
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Open file 1628
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Banking, Finance, Society and Economy
EuroZone Crisis ... Bankers have seized Europe
Bankers have seized Europe: Goldman Sachs Has Taken Over
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Activism, Society and Economy
Occupy Wall Street NYPD raid
Russia Topday reports on NYPD raid on Occupy Wall Street camp in Zuccotti park early morning (1 am) on Tuesday November 15
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Tax Evasion, Society and Economy
Zambia Mining Sector
Five NGOs have today filed a complaint against Glencore International and First Quantum Zambian subsidiary Mopani for massive tax evasion and fiscal fraud.
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Copper, Society and Economy
Copper is central to the economyu of Zambia
In the 1970s, Zambia was the third largest exporter of copper in the world. What has happened since then?
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Health, Society and Economy
Healthcare in the USA
Obama passed healthcare reform against tough opposition. Today Bomb Buried in Obamacare Explodes - Hallelujah!
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Open file 1633
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Capitalism, Society and the Economy
Is modern capitalism sustainable?
Kenneth Rogoff ... Is there a viable option besides capitalism for today's world? Or is it possible to adjust the system to make it work?
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Capitalism, Society and Economy
Capitalism with Asian values
Slavoj Zizek: The philosopher discusses the momentous changes taking place in the global financial and political system.
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Secrecy, Society and Economy
An Intelligence Defense of Julian Assange
Susan Lindauer makes An Intelligence Defense of Julian Assange ... If only I'd known Julian Assange, everything would have been different.
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Military, Society and the Economy
Back to the No Future: Russia and the New Nuclear Cold War.
William Engdahl on Why Moscow Doesn't Believe Washington on Missile Defense...or on just almost nuthin'
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Organizations ... Public Relations UK
Executives from Bell Pottinger reveal 'dark arts'
Caught on camera: top lobbyists boasting how they influence the PM in the UK
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People ... Bankers
Jamie Dimon
Jamie Dimon ... JPMorgan CEO : Stop Bashing the Rich
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Activism, Society and Economy
Commentary about Occupy
The Futility of Occupy X
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People ... Economist
Max Fraad-Wolff
Dr. Max Fraad-Wolff is a contributor to AlJazeera English and an economist and researcher at the New School in New York
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Open file 1641
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People
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr
Sakiko Fukuda-Parr is Professor of International Affairs at the New School. She was at UNDP reponsible for the Human Development Report
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Open file 1642
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Organizations ... Political USA
Progressives United
Progressives United ... my message in response their fund raising e-mail
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Open file 1643
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People ... Internet
Richard Stallman
Richard Stallman is a pioneer in the Free Software movement and ourspoken critic of proprietary software and its inherent problems
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Growth, Society and Economy
The American hangover
Trends in American leisure activities reflect a change - frugality and making do are in, gaudy consumerism is out.
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Climate, Society and Economy
Global warming is real, but not the most important economic issue
Bjørn Lomborg on GLOBAL WARNING and Seeming Green
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Rule of Law, Society and Economy
User agreements ... Project Syndicate
The Project Syndicate User Agreement is very short ... unusual for any website
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Open file 1647
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Organizations ... Media
Project Syndicate
A list of people who are at the core of Project Syndicate reporting
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Organizations ... India ... Membership
Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)
Established in 1927, FICCI is the largest and oldest apex business organisation in India.
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Open file 1649
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Music, Society and Economy
Pakistan’s wave of protest rock
Can activist-minded music shared online galvanise a movement for change across Pakistan?
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