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Financial Transactions Tax: A Little Tax on the Big Casino
by Tanya DawkinsMar 09, 2010
- The Center for Economic and Policy Research estimates that an FTT of only one-half of one percent would generate at least $60 billion to $100 billion dollars in the United States alone.
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Lessons from the Attack on Van Jones
by Rob Biko BakerDec 15, 2009
- Jones is a powerful role model in or out of the White House.
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Health Care Déjà Vu
by Brooke JarvisAug 28, 2009
- Can health care reform that does not build on the universal right to health care be successful?
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Would Obama’s Mother be Amazed?
by Fran KortenMay 08, 2009
- Would Barack Obama’s mother be amazed that her son is president of the United States? Fran Korten knew his mother, and she doesn’t think she would be.
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Instant Runoff Elections are a Vote for Civility
by Rob RichieMay 07, 2009
- Burlington’s success with instant runoff voting (IRV) is a model of a clean, open debate. Is it time to take it to the national level?
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Commentary :: Don't Fix Wall Street, Replace It
by David KortenFeb 13, 2009
- "Let Wall Street corporations and their phantom wealth machine slip into the abyss … Devote our public resources to building and strengthening Main Street businesses and financial institutions devoted to creating real wealth in service to their local communities."
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Commentary :: Worker-Owned Café Offers Local Food, Space to Talk
by Robert Jensen, Carlos Pérez de AlejoOct 31, 2008
- Robert Jensen, Carlos Pérez de Alejo describe the thinking behind “Piqueteros” (a name drawn from the movement of un- and under-employed workers in Argentina), one of the few worker-owned-and-operated cafés operating in the United States.
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Commentary :: Food From the Grassroots
by Raj PatelJul 30, 2008
- The food crisis is only getting worse. The answer involves a deep shift in the way our food comes to us.By making local governments pay attention to hunger, a range of organizations, working on everything from local food purchasing programs to farmers markets, are shaping the future of food.
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Commentary :: Don’t Be Nice—Be Kind
by Akaya WindwoodMay 22, 2008
- Niceness is often filled with falseness—it is a way to not tell the truth, or to obscure it. “Be nice!” is something many of us heard as children as a way of avoiding upsetting someone… it’s not effective in the long run as a way to come together to solve the myriad difficulties facing our communities, both local and global.
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The Fierce Urgency of Now
by Grace Lee BoggsFeb 03, 2008
- A call for beloved communities from Grace Lee Boggs: "We are living in a time of great peril and possibility."
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Commentary: New Flow in the Global Plumbing
by Jonathan RoweNov 07, 2007
- There’s an effort underway to turn remittance payments from global workers into the foundation of a new grassroots development fund that bypasses the World Bank and IMF with their built-in agendas.
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Commentary: Cooperators of the Prairies
by Jonathan RoweJul 29, 2007
- Few images loom larger in the American psyche than that of the Wild West. In contrast to the myth, it was the cooperators who really made the West.
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Commentary: An Honorable Exit from Iraq
by Poka LaenuiJul 29, 2007
- Poka Laenui outlines the 7 steps the U.S. should take to achieve an honorable exit from Iraq.
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Commentary: Our Conservative Allies
by Jonathan RoweMay 30, 2007
- Jonathan Rowe debunks the myth that the Bush Administration is "conservative."
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Commentary: US Social Forum - What Another U.S. Might Look Like
by Michael Leon GuerreroMay 07, 2007
- Will the first US Social Forum be an "aha" moment in the global movement for change.
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