Mois : février 2017

… on women’s marches in Washington DC, San Francisco, worldwide – Published on Dissident Voice.org, by Barbara MacLean, Feb 7, 2017.

… I was struck by one thing. Whiteness. The marchers were predominantly white – even in places like Nairobi. Not only were they white, they looked like they were upper middle class – able to afford the finest warm clothes and designer outfits, down jackets, sporting iPhones to record themselves. Continuer la lecture de « No Pink Wooly Caps for Me »

Published on The Guardian, by George Monbiot, Feb 2, 2017.

It took corporate America a while to warm to Donald Trump. Some of his positions, especially on trade, horrified business leaders. Many of them favoured Ted Cruz or Scott Walker. But once Trump had secured the nomination, the big money began to recognise an unprecedented opportunity … // Continuer la lecture de « How corporate dark money is taking power on both sides of the Atlantic »

… hopefully our minds remain open … open to das Grosse Ganze / the Whole / le Grand Tout – uploaded on YouTube by Kirsten Dirksen:

• Owner-built Atlanta glass “treehouse” floats among hardwoods, 30.46 min, Dec 25, 2016;
• Shared micro living, 12.58 min, Feb 2, 2015 … how 2 couples could live/work in 700 sq ft;
• Access to tools to help craft your self reliance – kirstendirksen, 6.29 min, Jan 18, 2015;
• Thoreauvian simple living … unelectrified, timeless tiny home, 6.45 min, Jan 9, 2012 … seven years ago Diana and Michael Lorence moved to a 12-foot-square home without electricity in the coastal mountains of Northern California;   Continuer la lecture de « living spaces becoming smaller and smaller »

Published on Institute for New Economic Thinking, Feb 3, 2017.

Research by INET-affiliated scholars shows the US lags far behind its peers on inclusive growth, suggesting inequality is not an inevitable consequence of globalization and technology. Continuer la lecture de « Is Inequality a Political Choice? »

Published on Alternet.org, by Vijay Prashad, Feb 1, 2017.

The world’s media is lost in the twists and turns of factions and evolving geopolitics … // Continuer la lecture de « What, Exactly, Is Going on in Syria? »

Published on Social Europe, by Guy Ryder, Feb 1, 2017.

The United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development commits UN member states to “leave no one behind.” One crucial component of that commitment – encompassed in the International Labor Organization’s own agenda – is decent work for all. At a time when worker frustration and disillusionment is being expressed in elections across the world, this goal could not be more important.   Continuer la lecture de « Decent Work or Indecent Politics »

… Marxist framing and revolutionary movement-building – Published on Pambazuka News.org, by Patrick Bond, Jan 27, 2017.

it is a great period to be a revolutionary activist in Africa. Yet the sense of stop-start progress and regress in so many sites of struggle reflects in part how poorly the working-class, poor, progressive middle class, social movements and other democrats have made alliances. The African uprising against neoliberalism hasn’t yet generated a firm ideology. In this case the best strategy would be a critical yet non-dogmatic engagment with the various emerging forces on the left … // Continuer la lecture de « African labour and social militancy »