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After the 2008 crash, the most sensible reform would have been to make the financial system more like education, not vice versa

There is a certain type of joy only felt the first time one makes history, and you can’t really describe to anyone who hasn’t experienced it. Yesterday about 10,000 young people from across the country discovered what it’s like.

19 November 2014, the date of the Free Education march, will surely be remembered as the start of a new student movement. Without the support of any major party or institution, abandoned even by their own National Union of Students, organisers nonetheless managed to mobilise thousands, including teenage college students and schoolchildren, supported by a smattering of veterans from the mobilisations of 2010. read more

Cultivating Climate Justice from the Frontlines of the Crisis: The Philippines and Australia

Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and Other Worlds November 24, 2014 Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives and Other Worlds

It’s been a year since Super Typhoon Yolanda (often called Typhoon Haiyan in other countries) swept through the Philippines, killing more than 6,000 people and destroying the homes of many more. As UN negotiator for the Philippines Yeb Sano explained in his address to the United Nations: for many people, this is what climate change looks like.

Fracking the Poor

Hannah Guzik November 20, 2014 Hannah Guzik

Source: In These Times

We know who lives near wells. We don’t know how it’s harming them.

It was supposed to be a good day. It was the first day of school and Johanna Romo, 12, had just woken up. It was already hot, and if she had looked out the window, she would have seen smog hugging the valley floor, obscuring the mountains, as it has almost every day this year. But she didn’t have a chance to look out the window.

As Johanna sat up and prepared to put on her school uniform—a blue shirt and khaki pants—her body lurched backward onto the floor, violently shaking. read more

Who Rules the World? How a Concentration of Wealth and Political Power Undermines Democracy

Benjamin Dangl November 19, 2014 Benjamin Dangl

With elections in the US, we are granted the illusion that voters generally have power over our elected leaders, the direction of the economy, and how to tackle climate change and other major issues. But where does the real power lie?

Talk of a Third Intifada: Where to from Here, Palestine?

Ramzy Baroud November 19, 2014 Ramzy Baroud

When a journalist tries to do a historian’s job, the outcome can be quite interesting. Using history as a side note in a brief news report or political analysis oftentimes does more harm than good. Now imagine if that journalist was not dependable to begin with, even more than it being “interesting”, the outcome runs the risk of becoming a mockery.

Nigeria: The Spirit of Saro-Wiwa Rises

Patrick Naagbanton November 18, 2014 Patrick Naagbanton

In one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance. - See more at: http://newint.org/features/2014/11/01/oil-niger-delta/#sthash.oEHtnn4P.dpuIn one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance.

In one of the most polluted places on earth there’s a resurgence of resistance.