February 6, 2009 The economic globalization that transformed the world at the turn of the century promised, according to its advocates, a glorious vista of prosperity that would provide unprecedented economic growth and raise billions of people out of poverty. In practice it generated personal and national insecurity, growing inequality, and a race to… Read More »
BAILING OUT THE PLANET
February 4, 2009 By Tim Costello, Brendan Smith, & Jeremy Brecher As the rag-tag army of social movement activists, NGO representatives and other advocates from global civil society wend their way home from the Amazonian city of Belem, Brazil, and the World Social Forum (WSF), they have reason to believe they have won… Read More »
“GLOBALIZATION FROM BELOW TACKLES THE “GREAT RECESSION”
January 26, 2009 At the pit of the Great Depression in 1930, an American country music group named the Carter Family recorded a song called The Worried Man Blues. It began: “I went down to the river and I lay down to sleep When I woke up there were shackles on my feet.” Though… Read More »
GLOBAL WARMING AND THE GREAT RECESSION
January 5, 2009 Global warming directly threatens virtually every individual, group, and nation. Climate protection represents the great common necessity for humanity. It is a concern for labor, its allies, and the globalization from below movement. Paradoxically, the slowing economy is reducing the production of greenhouse gases. But it is also leading to cuts in already inadequate… Read More »
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