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Four Leading Activists to Receive Awards for Nonviolent Achievement

International Centre for Nonviolent Conflict Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts, June 16, 2014 – In the wake of the Arab Spring and as nonviolent movements in Ukraine, Thailand, Brazil, and around the world capture the global public’s attention, on Wednesday, June 18th, two…

G77: “Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra” prioritizes struggle to eradicate poverty

Santa Cruz, June 15 (MC) -. The “Declaration of Santa Cruz de la Sierra” from the G77 Summit “Towards a New World Order to Live Well” stated as a priority of its member countries to eradicate poverty as main objective…

US-EU trade deal stalls over corporations suing governments

By Michael Meacher MP (Labour Party) Until recently investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) cases were rare.   This is the provision that allows companies to take governments to international arbitration panels to seek compensation if they feel their investment has been…

Medact: BOOTS is a PUBLIC HEALTH RISK!

Medact, Health professionals for a safer, fairer & better world Tax abuse costs the UK economy £69.9 Billion a year – more than half of the country’s total annual healthcare spend.  Meanwhile, health and social care services are being slashed in the…

UK Uncut protest at Vodaphone for Tax avoidance

Press Release. See Photos *Protesters shut down Vodafone’s flagship store on Oxford Street for over two hours.[1] * 10 actions took place across the country including in central London, Cornwall and Manchester.[2] * Flagship store blockaded by mothers, babies and…

Half a million citizens in Spain now have control over municipal government accounts

By the Municipal Citizens’ Observatories Over half a million people now have access to real participation in their municipality The OCMs: citizen bodies to control local governments After two years of work at the Spanish Citizen Debt Audit Platform (PACD),…

Burger Spring? Fast Food Workers Strike Worldwide

230 cities, 33 countries and 5 continents. Fast food workers are demanding higher salaries. “A few background facts from the Agenda Project Action Fund. (Alter Net) Fast food CEO’s make 1,200 times more than their employees The current federal minimum…

Protecting Net Neutrality and the Open Internet

By Chris Riley Mozilla‘s official blog on open Internet policy initiatives and developments In January, the DC Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) order that prevented Internet Service Providers (ISPs) from blocking and discriminating against…

Echoes of the Future

By Tina Bakolitsa for Occupy Times In the 39th episode of “Star Trek: The Next Generation”, Jean-Luc Picard, the captain of the starship Enterprise, finds himself in the unique situation of having to confront his future self. Through a recovered video…

The third flaw in the economic system

Over the last few days, Daily Pickings highlighted two of the fundamental flaws in the economic system, exclusive land ownership rights and interest on money. The third fundamental flaw is that the means to life is conditional on paid employment.…

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