Walking an Economic Tightrope with No Safety Net By Thalif Deen UNITED NATIONS, Oct 16 2013 (IPS) – With the richest one percent of the population now owning 40 percent of global assets, and the bottom half sharing just one percent, inequality is fast being recognised …
Is American Nonviolence Possible?
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Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (2): Consensus is not Self-Management
Discussing the Assemblies and Consensus of #OccupyWallStreet (2): Consensus is not Self-Management Excerpted from Michael Albert: “In Greece and Spain, a single message predominated. It had nothing to do with analyses of capitalism or other analytic focuses. Instead, Greek and Spanish activists reported that they had massive assemblies in widespread …