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As Greek voters reject further budget cuts and tax hikes in exchange for a rescue package from European creditors, who is to blame for the debt crisis embroiling Greece? Is Germany trying to crush Greece to set an example? Will Greece leave the eurozone? What does this mean...
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The following is the third part of a multi-part series, "Applying Poulantzas," which analyzes the work of Greek Marxist political sociologist, Nicos Poulantzas, and applies it to the unique political and economic structures found under neoliberalism and post-industrial...
(Acclaimed News) A newly released report has revealed, as many have suspected, that British taxes are currently weighted in such a way that hits the poorest families harder than the richest ones. With the Tories considering tax cuts for the rich, and reducing benefits plus...
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Why is it so scary to call yourself a feminist? Melissa Fabello of Everyday Feminism welcomes your comments!
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As Angela Merkel and Francois Hollande meet to discuss Greece, the banks teeter on the edge of nationalisation. Paul Mason reports from Athens.
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Sharks get a bad rep, but it's humans who we should really worry about
Infographic by Joe Chernov and Ripetungi
The US was the only country in the world to oppose a resolution calling for Israel to be held accountable for war crimes, at the 29th regular session of the United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC), held from 15 June to 3 July 2015.
Ben Norton
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Exctract from Zeitgeist: Addendum featuring "ecomomic hitman" John Perkins.
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Bill Maher calls out deregulators for shielding corporations at the expense of consumers.
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This is a story about clothing. It’s about the clothes we wear, the people who make them, and the impact the industry is having on our world. The price of clothing has been decreasing for decades, while the human and environmental costs have grown dramatically. The True Cost...
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When The Sun featured one of the iconic images from 7/7 alongside the headline 'Tell Tony He's Right', the implication was clear: the victim backed the PM's tough anti-terror measures. There was just one problem: John Tulloch doesn't. In fact, he tells Ros Coward he is...
Ros Coward
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A timely film about the competing values that mark the battle for global health... Beautifully filmed in Cuba, South Africa, The Gambia, Honduras and Venezuela, ¡SALUD! suggests bold new approaches to developing the human resources critical to making health care a global...
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Today it has been revealed that a British police constabulary ignored almost 600 emergency calls last year, around 50 each month and more than one per day.
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The referendum of 5th July will stay in history as a unique moment when a small European nation rose up against debt-bondage.
Yanis Varoufakis
Official history of raid camouflages US protection of governments behind 9/11
Nafeez Ahmed
According to mainstream media, the current economic crisis in Greece is due to the government spending too much money on its people that it went broke. This claim however, is a lie. It was the banks that wrecked the country so oligarchs and international corporations could...
Chris Kanthan
State socialism has failed, so has the market. We need to rediscover the anarchist thinker Peter Kropotkin
David Priestland
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As the referendum results come in, Paul Mason with an update on the very latest from Athens.
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This is "The Stones Cry Out Trailer" by Yasmine Perni.
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The latest analytical report from Transparency International has revealed that the majority of lobbying meetings involving the European Commissioners and their staff were actually held with corporate managers.
Thomas James
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A short video about The Venus Project, a holistic solution to our current global problems. Music link: https://app.box.com/s/bnx08tvbme67zzo9s1d1
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‘Champagne socialist,’ ‘limousine liberal’, or my personal favourite ‘bourgeois bohemian’ are equivalent accusations aimed at people who advocate socialist thought, while enjoying personal wealth. It is an appeal to a supposed hypocrisy; you cannot be an agent of social...
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As the UK Government launch their latest round of austerity measures, they admit that disabled people who get finance support will most likely be affected and, in order to lower the number of children in poverty, rather than taking any meaningful steps they are just changing...
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After viewing Mama Hope's video, "Alex Presents Commando," Gabriel, Benard, Brian and Derrik (the Kenyan men in this video) told us they wanted to make one that pokes fun at the way African men are portrayed in Hollywood films. They said, "If people believed only what they...
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A victory for OXI (No) would not just help restore a sense of dignity to Greece; it would strengthen the ground for anti-austerity struggles across Europe.
Jerome Roos
Today's referendum will mark the most significant crowd wisdom field experiment in the history of modern finance. In the meantime, some people fight for human rights and for a better destiny, while some others sit on their chairs cynically, judging everyone and making profit...
Aner Ravon
Why we should enthusiastically join reformist movements and not just to attempt to swap their goals for overtly radical ones. On radical supremacy and the ungovernability factor. No vanguards no masters.
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This week we take a look at the 6 plus year student revolt in Chile, plus ballot burning fury in Mexico and an interview with militants from Santiago who tell us about the anarchist scene there.
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Colonialism and Settler Colonialism
Laura Hurwitz and Shawn Bourque
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Greece is in a state of economic and financial crisis that's dominated global headlines this week. Vox's Matt Yglesias explains the real roots of the crisis. For our more on the Greek crisis: http://www.vox.com/cards/eurozone-crisis Subscribe to our channel...
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October 2013 the Royal Canadian Mounted Police descended on a peaceful anti-fracking protest led by the Mi'kmaq of Elsipogtog and their allies. In this film the voices of some of the people involved in the anti-fracking movement talk about what happened and why they took the...
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On December 8, 2014, the Mikisew Cree First Nation presented a petition to the World Heritage Committee to have Wood Buffalo National Park included on the list of World Heritage in Danger. Watch this video to find out what Mikisew's petition is all about.
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This documentary by award-winning film directors Rob Stewart and Jonah Bryson examines this community’s determination to stand together and fight against a development they say will irreparably ruin the natural landscape, destroy the tourism industry forever and wreck...
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Sixty years ago, half of German war debts were cancelled to build its economy. Yet today, debt is destroying those creditors. The "strategy" in Greece, Ireland, Portugal and Spain today is to put the burden of adjustment solely on the debtor country to make its economy more...
Nick Dearden
The recently published piece titled ‘The Likely Cause of Addiction Has Been Discovered, and It Is Not What You Think' gave me a lot of food for thought for how we relate to the phenomena of addiction, and how society goes about treating it.
As a budding cultural ecologist...
Sarah Levine
Perhaps we could look at acts of direct human-level compassion as complements to, not substitutes for, action on a social or political level.
Charles Eisenstein
The best news for a good Anthropocene is that the human brain is a master at learning and relearning and that “rewiring” takes place all the time. Until old age, learning processes can cancel out old habits. Addictive and behavioral pitfalls can be replaced with new ways of...
Christian Schwägerl
The “Grexit” might be just around the corner. Wall Street bets on 75% chance of Greek default. Greek prime minister escalated his defiance towards the country’s official creditors, with a pointed
Positive Money
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The planet doesn't need saving. We do.
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Free cinema for children living in some of the most isolated places in the planet!! https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/solar-powered-cinema-mission-mongolia/x/8021226#/story The project started in West Africa in 2009 and now we are heading to Mongolia :)
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The internet can be a cesspit of hate, harassment and conflict, but as Rachel England finds out, the kindness of strangers is putting it through rehab
Rachel England
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Découvrez le film du dernier séminaire F3E-AFD sur le thème : Analyser, suivre et évaluer sa contribution au changement social. Donner du sens à la mesure des pratiques de solidarité internationale et de coopération décentralisée.
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The Guardian has logged every police killing in America this year, and, as of 1 July 2015, 547 people have been killed by law enforcement. (This video shows the figures up to 29 June 2015, when 545 had been killed.)
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On Monday, President Obama signed the Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) bill, fast-tracking the TPP (Trans Pacific Partnership). Yesterday, it was revealed that the bill has a hidden provision not to the liking of the Obama Administration. The Trojan horse amendment to the bill...
Naji Dahi
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This film explores the practice, the methods and the need for habitat restoration in British Columbia's temperate rainforests. At Central Westcoast Forest Society, we see a clear connection between healthy landscapes and healthy communities. Our coast is one of the most...
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Examples of how a whole country's economy can be elaborately undermined and mortgaged for the interests of lobbies can be found everywhere on the planet. Will we indifferently accept the capitalist, individualist consciousness of profit as a status quo? As «unavoidable» part...
Desiderata poem by Max Ehrmann beautifully illustrated by Gavin Aung Than
Gavin Aung Than
Images circulated, in the aftermath of Dylann Roof’s racially motivated mass shooting at the historically black Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, included not only numerous pictures of Roof brandishing the Confederate battle flag but one of him squatting over a rumpled U.S...
Kevin Carson
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This knowledge isn't supposed to make us afraid - it's meant to stir our hearts into action - to give us the fire that we can use to save everything we love.
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Does privilege theory offer an adequate lens to challenge oppression and help those it is intended to help?
Common Dreams report on the capture by Israeli military of ship on humanitarian mission to Gaza; Crew post videos saying "If you are watching this video it means we have been stopped..."
Text: Sarah Lazare Videos: Freedom Flotilla
You know when you just have a little idea, have a laugh to yourself and then move on with your day? I do that a lot, only on Sunday night, I didn’t let it pass but decided to try it out for real.
Thom Feeney
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Both America and the Soviet Union called the Soviet Union a socialist system but for different reasons. America called it a socialist system because it wanted to defame and demonize socialism. The Soviet Union called their government socialist because that was a popular and...
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Is it really surprising that the elite minority would try to convince the majority over which they rule, that democracy = tyranny?
This is a clip taken from the film Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Politics (2009). Watch the full film here.
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This was just awesome. No wonder so many people love Sander's message.
The opening minutes of the July 1st rally was a classic #FeelTheBern moment, delivered to a 10,000 person crowd, the largest of any 2016 presidential rally so far.
Watch the full speech in Part 2.
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"There are no bullets, but it's a war in which people are dying... And the principle weapon, is debt."
This clip is taken from the beginning of the film War By Other Means (1992), by John Pilger. Watch the full documentary online here. It may be over 2 decades old, but it...
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This multi-part video series highlights the impact of systemic racism on our everyday lives. And yeah, it's really a thing.
In each 1 minute video, a different example of systemic racism is covered:
Part 1: Wealth Gap
Part 2: Employment
Part 3: Housing Discrimination
Part...
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In this powerful clip, PolicyLink's Angela Glover Blackwell connects today's unrelenting cases of police violence to systemic causes, underlining the urgency of systemic solutions. "You, as an individual in this society," she concludes, "may not carry personal racism. But...
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In this video we break down in simple terms the only way "those in power" can stay in power. It's not as complex at it may seem. They need us more than we need them.
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The most common words I hear spoken by any environmentalists anywhere are, We’re fucked.
Most of these environmentalists are fighting desperately, using whatever tools they have — or rather whatever legal tools they have, which means whatever tools those in power grant them...
Derrick Jensen
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Reaction to horrific events in Tunisia and the response of David Cameron. If British foreign policy is truly a force for democracy why does the UK sell arms to repressive states? Subscribe Here Now: http://tinyurl.com/opragcg and send links to video news items of topical...
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John Perkins, author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, discusses how Greece and other eurozone countries have become the new victims of "economic hit men."
Michael Nevradakis
Ever since Bill Clinton and the World Bank enthusiastically embraced the microfinance concept in the 1990s, we at Local Futures have been skeptical of its benefits, seeing it as part of a whole package of “market solutions” to our social and environmental crises that, in the...
Helena Norberg-Hodge
Ever since the Occupy movement coined the terms “the 1%” and “the 99%” to point out disparities of wealth and power, the gap between rich and poor has received a lot of attention. In his highly-regarded 2014 book, Capital in the Twenty-first Century, for example, Thomas...
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Is Canada the global good guy? Let's examine that claim.
MYTH 1) 'Canada is a peacekeeping nation' examines the changes within the Canadian military policies and what has been the agenda of these actions. From the historical beginnings of peacekeeping, to the recent...
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There is an increasing global movement to change colonial place names that refelect changing attitudes toward colonialsim and imperialism and a wish to throw off the schackles of that legacy. In India, the city of Bombay has become Mumbai. In South Africa, the region of...
Syriza’s negotiations with the Troika have fulfilled a pedagogical role : of showing the unwillingness of undemocratic institutions such as the EU and IMF to respect the democratic will of sovereign nation states. Moreover, the unwillingness of the Troika to tie debt...
Joseph Leigh, Lewis Bassett & Michael Walker
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It's really not about polar bears any more...
We have a problem. We're flying too much, and it's changing the earth's climate. Aviation is the fastest growing cause of climate change. But instead of doing anything about it, the Government is planning more flights and larger...
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Even its own officials recognize that the IMF played a leading role in Greece’s economic collapse. It is time for the Fund to own up and pay its dues.
Jerome Roos
‘Radicalisation’ is our new dirty word in the US and UK, yet radical change is needed. Here’s an idea: stop trying to fix the world with high explosives
Frankie Boyle
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This is the truth about the world today: not as it should be, or how it was taught to us in schools, but as it really is.
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Cities are the biggest thing we create. But when we talk about sustainability, there is still surprisingly little discussion about how our cities are designed as a whole.
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MIT's Phil Thompson explains how the struggles against slavery and Jim Crow were not just about reaffirming human rights, but also about transforming the economy.
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Greek politicians Alexis Tsipras and Yanis Varoufakis are currently failing to communicate with their European creditors. This isn't new. This video lays out the three misconceptions that Europe has about Greece that brought us to the current crisis. We need Grexit.
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What would happen if the United States suddenly stopped building walls and instead flung open its borders, not unlike the European Union has done among the member countries of the common market? Conservatives malign the notion and liberals, even radical ones, haven't exactly...
Roque Planas
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In the latest edition of The Undercurrent: environmental activists protest the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History for having climate-denier-oil-baron David Koch on its advisory board and religious conservative legislators push back on the Pope's findings in his...
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Asking this waiter "how the streak comes" meets with an unexpected answer.
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Approximately two years ago a collaborative of Oakland based non and for profit companies and organizations including; The Green Life, Earthseed Consulting, Planting Justice, Wildheart Gardens, Impact Hub Oakland, United Roots, Sustainability Economies Law Center, all...
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The Green Life at San Quentin is an eco-literacy and self-sufficiency peer education program at San Quentin State Prison.Imagine a lively and passionate class of 25 students tackling some of the toughest issues humanity faces today. People are asking questions, sharing...
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What has really come to the surface in Europe, is a very interesting reflection of the constant battle between the weak and the strong, that has never really ended on this continent (or anywhere else?). Prevailing systems are reflections of prevailing human consciousness...
Stylian Senar
For the last few years Bradford born and based artist Mohammed Hamza has been putting out some of the best revolutionary art around under the Intifada Street banner. As the name of the project would suggest, the struggles of the Palestinian People feature heavily in his work...
Wikileaks has blown the lid off another trade deal being negotiated 'on our behalf' by our governments, in secret without democratic scrutiny or debate, that threatens people and planet.
David Dayen
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WE ARE REBELS. WESTERN SAHARA. 26' - 2015
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Traditional economic development wastes billions of dollars of taxpayer money to subsidize the profit of corporations with no loyalty to the communities who foot the bill. But there's an alternative: community wealth building, which focuses on building collaborative...
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The story of a KKK leader’s transformation shows us that we need not live forever with the kind of violence we saw in Charleston this month.
Araz Hachadourian
South Carolina residents and state officials are in a bitter debate over the Confederate flag. With protesters and lawmakers on the ground arguing over what the flag stands for and where it should fly, one woman decided to do something about it.
Franchesca Ramsey
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What's Life without Moments? Vacations should be a time to go away and come together. Prince EA suggests that from now on we take our #WholeVacation
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Finally, the Greek people will be able to say a dignified ‘NO!’ to austerity. We owe it to those who suffered, those who migrated — and those who died.
Leonidas Oikonomakis
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Award-winning documentary about the irreplaceable sense of community in a diminishing traditional neighborhood of Shanghai, told from the reflections of a bus driver and his 12-year-old daughter.
The rapid increase in prosperity and the international modernization of...
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Ahead of the payment of €462 million by Greece to the IMF on Thursday 9 April, figures released by the Jubilee Debt Campaign show that the IMF has made €2.5 billion of profit out of its loans to Greece since 2010. If Greece does repay the IMF in full this will rise to €4.3...
Jubilee Debt Campaign
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In the heart of Tibet lies Driru County. Since 2013 it has been the epicentre of Tibetan resistance to China's rule - and has suffered intense repression as a result.
Artist May Kindred-Boothby has worked with Free Tibet to create this original and evocative interpretation...
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This video was filmed in India, in the town of McLeod Ganj. This is just one of the cities where you can find the Tibetan exiles living abroad. This is only part of what Tibetans have to suffer on a daily basis, and is focused primarily on the kids going through this dramatic...
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This simple flowchart lays out what the bible says about gay marriage... and some other issues.
Scott Bateman
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This week's gay rights victory was historic, but the transgender community still faces staggering challenges. John Oliver focuses on the "T" in "LGBT."
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Malina Suliman, born in 1990 in the Kandahar region of Afghanistan, one of the country’s most conservative and dangerous areas, chose to become an artist. This decision led her to attend college in Pakistan, and later to begin an art collective, Kandahar Fine Arts Association...
Megan Minto
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This short clip come from the excellent documentary Cowspiracy, wich follows the shocking, yet humorous journey of an aspiring environmentalist as he daringly seeks to find the real solution to the most pressing environmental issues and a true path to sustainability.
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"In March 2014, the Bank of England let the cat out of the bag: money is just an IOU, and the banks are rolling in it. So wrote David Graeber in The Guardian the same month, referring to a BOE paper called "Money Creation in the Modern Economy." The paper stated outright that...
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From the 23rd to the 26th of February of 1998, grassroots movements of all continents met in Geneva to launch a worldwide coordination network of resistance to the global market, a new alliance of struggle and solidarity called Peoples' Global Action against 'free' trade and...
People's Global Action
In February, 2009, then Attorney General Eric Holder, in an address at the Department of Justice to commemorate Black History Month, said we in the United States were “a nation of cowards” when it comes to an honest conversation about race. He continued to speak about the...
Valerie Elverton Dixon