Posted on December 26, 2017 by Ellen Brown (ellenbrown.com) Higher education has been financialized, transformed from a public service into a lucrative cash cow for private investors. The advantages of slavery by debt over “chattel” slavery – ownership of humans as a property right – were set out in an infamous document… Continue reading
TED Published on Aug 12, 2014 Nick Hanauer is a rich guy, an unrepentant capitalist — and he has something to say to his fellow plutocrats: Wake up! Growing inequality is about to push our societies into conditions resembling pre-revolutionary France. Hear his argument about why a dramatic increase in… Continue reading
$3,235 USD raised by 22 people in 1 day 13% of $25,000 goal DONATE NOW Share on Facebook Community Oakland Omni Commons, Organizer for Omni Commons What is Generosity? Read our mission statement. Our Story Three and a half years ago, an historic former Italian social club in the heart of a… Continue reading
EXCLUSIVE Overflights, mapping fiber-optic networks, “strange activities.” Moscow’s West Coast spies were busy. BY ZACH DORFMAN ILLUSTRATIONS BY MATT ROTA DEC. 14, 2017 (foreignpolicy.com) The first thing you need to understand about the building that, until very recently, housed the Russian Consulate in San Francisco — a city where topography… Continue reading
By Jason Koebler Oct 27 2016 (motherboard.vice.com) Job opportunities are drying up in towns without broadband. Chattanooga, Tennessee turned around its fortunes by building the fastest internet in the United States. The “Chattanooga Choo Choo” sign over the old terminal station is purely decorative, a throwback. Since the Southern Railroad left… Continue reading
aDDmoreJuice Published on Dec 22, 2017 Outgoing Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who resigned from office earlier this month amid sexual misconduct allegations, used his final speech from the Senate floor on Thursday to list President Donald Trump’s many lies. He urged his congressional colleagues on both sides of the aisle… Continue reading
In America’s ‘hottest housing market’, one woman’s fight to keep her home has become a rallying cry against the displacement of communities of color Frances Moore, an activist known locally as Aunti Frances, in front of her home in Oakland, California. Photograph: Sam Levin for the Guardian Sam Levin in Oakland… Continue reading
Photo: Ted S. Warren/AP Zaid Jilani December 15 2017, 2:17 p.m. (theintercept.com) THE FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Commission’s 3-2 vote to repeal net neutrality rules has many worried that internet service providers will now build the same sort of tiered internet that some other countries have — where individual providers can collude to throttle traffic to certain… Continue reading
BY THE EDITORS OF GQ PHOTOGRAPHS BY MARTIN SCHOELLER November 13, 2017 (GQ.com) He’s been vilified by millions and locked out of the NFL—all because he took a knee to protest police brutality. But Colin Kaepernick’s determined stand puts him in rare company in sports history: Muhammad Ali, Jackie Robinson—athletes who risked everything… Continue reading
December 21, 2017 by Newsweek Voters from across the political spectrum overwhelmingly support an open internet. by Evan Greer Federal Communications Commission Chairman Ajit Pai released a video to defend his stance on net neutrality. (Photo: Daily Caller) Cancel the funeral and get ready to fight: Net neutrality is far from dead. Our elected… Continue reading
