All Views Articles for 2015-04-16
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Michael T. Klare The Renewable Revolution Four Reasons Why the Transition From Fossil Fuels to a Green Energy Era Is Gaining Traction Read more |
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Carl Finamore Getting Better Organized: The Fight for $15 and a Union The Fight for $15 minimum wage campaign came to San Francisco in the very early hours of April 15. Around 100 protestors assembled at 6am and then marched very orderly through the doors, packed the... Read more |
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Isaiah Poole ‘Raise Wages, Empower Workers’ At the Top of the Populism2015 Agenda The wave of “Fight for $15″ demonstrations that swept the country Wednesday were in themselves a big deal – actions in more than 230 cities in the United States and in several foreign cities in which... Read more |
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Chris Walker Five Reasons Why TTIP Is Bad News for Farmers This week activists around the world will take to the streets for two days of action to challenge corporate power. Friday is La Via Campesina ’s International Day of Peasant Struggle when food... Read more |
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David Korten A Trade Rule that Makes It Illegal to Favor Local Business? Newest Leak Shows TPP Would Do That And More The leaked text is full of dense legal jargon. But a close reading makes its corporate agenda crystal clear. Read more |
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Jaime McClain Close Encounter with Majestic Sperm Whale Should Inspire Action After exclaiming “What the heck is that?!” a chorus of “wow’s” erupted as scientists realized a sperm whale was paying a visit to their ROV during a deep-sea dive . Though the scientists are on a six... Read more |
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Laura Flanders The Cost of Doing (BIG) Business “The cost of doing business.” That’s what corporations call it when they claim a deduction from their taxes for the damage they’ve done to people and the planet. It’s a cost of doing business all... Read more |
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Robert Naiman What Did Democrats Win in the Cardin Compromise on the Corker Bill? I knew a lawyer who was a Philosophy major as an undergrad. At a party many years ago - maybe we had consumed a few sips of beer - I asked him, what does studying Philosophy have to do with being a... Read more |
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Robert C. Koehler Should the Police Be Armed? The cellphone video “reality footage” just doesn’t stop. Black men are shot, killed, handcuffed. The shortcomings of their prematurely terminated lives soon become public knowledge, vaguely... Read more |
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Nnimmo Bassey Halting Intentional Climate Inaction If you keep going in the same direction, you will inevitably end up at where you are going. – Chinese proverb The climate paradox is that while governments agree that it is an imminent crisis, they... Read more |
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Bill McKibben A Climate Hero Languishes in Prison. Let's Fight to Get Him Out. Mohamed Nasheed—who literally stood against the tides of rising oceans to sound the climate alarm—was ousted as the president of the Maldives during a military coup in 2012 and now faces 13 years in jail on an absurd series of politically-motivated charges. Read more |