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Economy
The Current Business Paradigm Is Toxic to Business and Society. Here’s How We Change It
Business being the most pragmatic of all social organizational forms, it historically has focused narrowly on its economic activity without being distracted by the demands of political affiliations, societal …
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Across New York City, People Honor May Day
Protesters with the Occupy Wall Street movement during a march in New York, May 1, 2012. (Photo: Ozier Muhammad / The New York Times)Walter Hillegas marches with a scale-model …
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Affordable Housing Wobbles as Redevelopment Agencies Close
Affordable housing advocates across California are scrambling for alternative sources of funding following the closure of the state’s redevelopment agencies last February.A state law upheld by the California Supreme …
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Labor Not Loyalty on May 1
Two key steps have helped to ruin May Day in the United States. First, Labor Day was created at a completely different time of year — labor day without …
Bankers Assault Financial Reform
Guest: Gerald Epstein is codirector of the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) and Professor of Economics. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University. He has published widely …
May Day Special on OWS, Immigration, Labor Protests: “No Work, No Shopping, Occupy Everywhere”
As Occupy Wall Street plans nationwide protests marking International Workers Day, or May Day, we discuss the movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, Chris Hedges; Amin Husain, editor of Tidal …
Welcome to the 2012 Hunger Games: Sending Debt Peonage, Poverty and Freaky Weather Into the Arena
When I was growing up, I ate books for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, and since I was constantly running out of reading material, I read everyone else’s — which …
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Economists, Liquidity Mongers and the Banker Assault on Financial Reform
This has been a bad stretch for advocates of financial reform – and therefore for the economy as a whole. One after the other, new financial regulations contained in …
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Wall Street Banks Coordinate to Fight May Day Protests, Compare Themselves to Elk Hunted by Wolves
Organizers and protesters around the world will come together to commemorate International Workers Day tomorrow, and they are taking on familiar targets. Large protest actions are planned in more …
Confronting the Big Empty
Due to the consolidation of wealth and privilege into fewer and fewer hands, thus requiring escalating amounts of officially mandated surveillance and brutality to maintain social order, the natural …