Four local authorities tasked with turning utopian fantasy into reality with backing of first minister and multi-party support Grassmarket and Victoria Street in Edinburgh, where universal basic income will be trialled next year Photograph: Alamy Stock Photo Libby Brooks Scotland correspondent Mon 25 Dec ‘17 (theguardian.com) Universal basic income is,… Continue reading
Dear Earth Citizen, Our world is rapidly changing. Here at the end of 2017, it is clearer every day that nation-states are not the only game in town anymore. The recent changes in our geopolitical landscape are markedly defined by the internet: they involve, on one hand, Facebook gathering… Continue reading
© Dmitry Serebryakov, AFP | Supporters of Russian opposition leader Alexey Navalny (C) carry boxes with signatures to nominate him as opposition candidate for the forthcoming presidential election in Moscow on December 24, 2017. Alexei Navalny, seen as the only Russian opposition leader who stands a fighting chance of challenging… Continue reading
December 28 2017 (moc.media) He was charged with “inciting subversion” and sentenced to six years in jail for making a film about Tibetans living under China’s rule. Dhondup Wangchen. Source: filmingfortibet/Twitter Tibetan filmmaker Dhondup Wangchen fled China to the United States after being released from jail. He was earlier arrested… Continue reading
From: Emily Wheeler Sent: Wed, Dec 27, 2017 4:25 pm Subject: student debt burden: stories sought Hi everyone, As a volunteer with Friends of the Public Bank of Oakland, I’m researching student debt in the East Bay, and I’m hoping some of you can refer me to people who are… Continue reading
27 December 2017 (poormagazine.org) Author: Peter Menchini “I was anticipating a breakthrough — hoping that the protest would not be instantly dispersed by riot police, like so many previous marches. On that day I thought that if everybody does their part, we will have tens of thousands. What happened was… Continue reading
by Noam Chomsky, Peter Hutchinson (Editor), Kelly Nyks (Editor), Jared P. Scott (Editor) In his first major book on the subject of income inequality, Noam Chomsky skewers the fundamental tenets of neoliberalism and casts a clear, cold, patient eye on the economic facts of life. What are the ten principles of concentration of wealth and power… Continue reading
December 17, 2017 (occupyoakland.org) Posted by LaborSolidarityCommittee Categories: Front Page, Open Mic Strike Debt Bay Area (SDBA) wrote and participated in the airing of an hour long KPFA radio show on financial inequality – causes, reprecussions and what we can do about it. Darlene Pagano, a member of SDBA and KPFA intern, hosted the… Continue reading
By Rachel Swan June 7, 2017 (SFChronicle.com) Photo: Noah Berger, Special To The Chronicle. A man checks his phone near Mission Dolores Park, one of the city’s 32 parks that received free Wi-Fi several years ago. In a city where so much information is tweeted, emailed, Skyped or texted, thousands of people… Continue reading
December 26, 2017 (latimes.com) China has now assumed the mantle of fighting climate change, a global crusade that the United States once led. Russia has taken over Syrian peace talks, also once the purview of the American administration, whose officials Moscow recently deigned to invite to negotiations only as observers…. Continue reading
