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On May 31 Ireland will put the EU’s new treaty for fiscal discipline to a referendum, giving Irish voters a chance to overturn this controversial agreement. The crisis in Ireland is symbolic of ones facing many European countries, as well as the United States, and is a direct outgrowth of policies implemented against developing countries when I was... [Read more of this review]
Derek Wall giving a keynote speech at the Green Party of England and Wales conference, Reading, 2008 Derek Wall is an English politician and member of the Green Party of England and Wales . Formerly the party's Principal Speaker , he is known as a prominent ecosocialist , campaigning both for environmentalism and socialism . Alongside his political role, Wall is an academic and a writer, having published various books on the subject of ecosocialism and the wider Green politics movement.
Derek Wall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Here’s a thinkpiece that appeared on Feb 6 with tendentious title and sensible editing provided by the good folk at The Atlantic . If public health is a legitimate reason to curb corporations’ advertising to kids, why limit bans to cigarettes, booze, and toys in happy meals, and not include, say, all unhealthy food? In the fall of 2008, San Francisco polished its progressive credentials by banning something.
Raj Patel - Author
Democracy Now!
In part two of our interview with social theorist David Harvey, he notes the "urban center" of Occupy Wall Street has been key to its success. He also discusses Karl Marx, the lack of evidence that austerity stimulates economic growth, and how many of the social benefits that exist today were brought about through class struggle. [includes rush transcript]
Vandana Shiva - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Vandana Shiva ( Hindi : वन्दना शिवा; b. November 5, 1952, Dehra Dun , Uttarakhand , India ), is a philosopher , environmental activist , and eco feminist . [ 1 ] Shiva, currently based in Delhi , has authored more than 20 books and over 500 papers [ citation needed ] in leading scientific and technical journals. [ 2 ] She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in particle physics from the University of Western Ontario , Canada , in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation "Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory." [ 3 ] [ 4 ] She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization , (along with Jerry Mander , Edward Goldsmith , Ralph Nader , Jeremy Rifkin , et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement . She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage.
Naomi Klein
He introduces himself as Richard Rothschild. He tells the crowd that he ran for county commissioner in Maryland’s Carroll County because he had come to the conclusion that policies to combat global warming were actually “an attack on middle-class American capitalism.” His question for the panelists, gathered in a Washington, DC, Marriott Hotel in late June, is this: “To what extent is this entire movement simply a green Trojan horse, whose belly is full with red Marxist socioeconomic doctrine?” Here at the Heartland Institute’s Sixth International Conference on Climate Change, the premier gathering for those dedicated to denying the overwhelming scientific consensus that human activity is warming the planet, this qualifies as a rhetorical question. Like asking a meeting of German central bankers if Greeks are untrustworthy. Still, the panelists aren’t going to pass up an opportunity to tell the questioner just how right he is.
By Amy Goodman with Denis Moynihan On the rainy night of Sunday, Feb. 26, 17-year-old Trayvon Martin walked to a convenience store in Sanford, Fla. On his way home, with his Skittles and iced tea, the African-American teenager was shot and killed.
Democracy Now!
Peter Lamborn Wilson (born 1945) (pseudonym Hakim Bey ), is an American political writer, essayist, and poet, known for first proposing the concept of the Temporary Autonomous Zone (TAZ), based, in part, on a historical review of pirate utopias . He is an anarchist associated with the post-left anarchy tendency and individualist anarchism . [ 1 ] After studying at Columbia University , he did extensive traveling in the Middle East , Afghanistan , Pakistan , India and Nepal . He studied Tantra in West Bengal and visited many Sufi shrines and masters. In 1971 he undertook research on the Ni'matullahi funded by the Marsden Foundation of New York. [ 2 ]
