September 2009 - Page 7 of 7

Boycotting Life as Normal in Israel

Cecilie Surasky September 2, 2009 Cecilie Surasky

Cecilie Surasky: What is the call for Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions? Why are you supporting it?

Naomi Klein: Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions: It’s a tactic with a very clear goal, to force Israel to comply with international law.

The call [for BDS] was made in 2005 by an extraordinarily broad range of Palestinian civil society groups, political parties, and trade unions. But it didn’t really start to gain an international profile until the Israeli attack on Lebanon in the summer of 2006. read more

Gaza: Fighting for the Right to Walk

Ramzy Baroud September 2, 2009 Ramzy Baroud

Gaza's troubles have somehow been relegated, if not completely dropped from the mainstream media's radar, and subsequently the world's conscience and consciousness. Weaning the public from the sadness there conveys the false impression that things are improving and that people are starting to move on and rebuild their lives. But nothing could be further from the truth.

Mondragón Worker-Cooperatives Decide How to Ride Out a Downturn

Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena September 1, 2009 Georgia Kelly and Shaula Massena

Mondragón Co-op Grocery Store

The Mondragón Cooperative Corporation (MCC), the largest consortium of worker-owned companies, has developed a different way of doing business-a way that puts workers, not shareholders, first.

Go to Pittsburgh and Defy Your Empire

Chris Hedges September 1, 2009 Chris Hedges

Source: Truthdig

Globalization and unfettered capitalism have been swept into the history books along with the open-market theory of the 1920s, the experiments of fascism, communism and the New Deal. It is time for a new economic and political paradigm. It is time for a new language to address our reality. The voices of change, those who speak in powerful and yet unfamiliar words, will cry out Sept. 25 and 26 in Pittsburgh when protesters from around the country gather to defy the heads of state, bankers and finance ministers from the world’s 22 largest economies who are convening for a meeting of the G-20. If we heed these dissident voices we have a future. If we do not we will commit collective suicide. read more