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Not TINA (There Is No Alternative) but TAPAS: THERE ARE PLENTY OF ALTERNATIVES
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Global Economics and You: Government Of the 1% By Joseph Stiglitz

Global Economics and You: Government Of the 1% By Joseph Stiglitz | real utopias | Scoop.it
Sunday, January 8, 2012. Government Of the 1% By Joseph Stiglitz. The 1%. o. Psychopaths. Posted by Global Economics and You at 3:41 AM · Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to Facebook. Reactions: 0 comments: ...
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Mark Ganzer's Blog: "The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social ...

Mark Ganzer's Blog: "The Second Wind of the Worldwide Social ... | real utopias | Scoop.it
by Immanuel Wallerstein During the protests in Tahrir Square in November 2011, Mohamed Ali, age 20, responded to a journalist's query as to why he was there: "We want social justice. Nothing more. That's the least that we ...
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Occupy: rediscovering the general will in hard times | openDemocracy

Occupy: rediscovering the general will in hard times | openDemocracy | real utopias | Scoop.it
J. K. Gibson-Graham, A Post-Capitalist Politics (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2006), 87. ↩; Amartya Sen, On Ethics and Economics (Blackwell: Oxford. 1987). ↩ · View the discussion thread.
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Pathetic Primaries - CounterPunch

Pathetic Primaries - CounterPunch | real utopias | Scoop.it
Pathetic PrimariesCounterPunchPLUS Terror, domination and meat – factory farms and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act PLUS The rise and fall of Cesar Chavez. by ANDREW LEVINE In democracies, the people, the demos, rule.
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The Golden Age of Tycoons - CounterPunch

The Golden Age of Tycoons - CounterPunch | real utopias | Scoop.it
The Golden Age of TycoonsCounterPunchPLUS Terror, domination and meat – factory farms and the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act PLUS The rise and fall of Cesar Chavez. by JOHN FEFFER John F. Kennedy essentially bought his way into politics.
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Occupy Nigeria

Occupy Nigeria | real utopias | Scoop.it
Nigeria's political leaders probably did not expect this kind of response from the populace --mass protests, a national strike starting today that shut down major cities--when they decided, on Janu...
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Senior Citizens Occupy, Shut Down Bank Of America

Senior Citizens Occupy, Shut Down Bank Of America | real utopias | Scoop.it
A dozen senior citizens calling themselves the wild old women succeeded in closing a Bank of America branch in Bernal Heights on Thursday.
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The Green Economy – which way to look in 2012

The Green Economy – which way to look in 2012 | real utopias | Scoop.it
Re-engineering our transport, energy, food systems and building stock for a low carbon future could provide a much needed economic boost, says Andrew Simms...
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Economic Principals » Blog Archive » The Anthropologists’ Hour

Economic Principals, David Warsh, Proprietor...
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Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey | real utopias | Scoop.it
An open course consisting of a close reading of the text of Karl Marx's Capital Volume I in 13 video lectures by Professor David Harvey.
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The Making of the American 99% » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

The Making of the American 99% » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names | real utopias | Scoop.it
The Making of the American 99%...

“Class happens when some men, as a result of common experiences (inherited or shared), feel and articulate the identity of their interests as between themselves, and as against other men whose interests are different from (and usually opposed to) theirs.” - E.P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class

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Anniversary of the 1937 US sit-down strike wave: Remembering another Occupy movement

Anniversary of the 1937 US sit-down strike wave: Remembering another Occupy movement | real utopias | Scoop.it
Sit-in strikers at General Motors’ Fisher No. 1 plant.
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A global alliance for immediate alteration is on the rise, join in to save and change the planet: Occupy/TTS/DRY/PAN global coordination platforms!

A global alliance for immediate alteration is on the rise, join in to save and change the planet: Occupy/TTS/DRY/PAN global coordination platforms! | real utopias | Scoop.it
1. TTS Take The Square International
- English Language Global Mailing-List: http://lists.takethesquare.net/mailman/listinfo/squares(all welcome)
- TTS Global English Language Virtual Meeting ( ...
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E.O.Wright: Occupy Wall Street and Transformational Strategy | New Left Project

Erik Olin Wright's ZSpace Page


The beginning of the new year seems an appropriate time to reflect upon the progress, and potential, of what must surely rank as one of the most astonishing and ...
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The Anointed - Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age - By Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson - Book Review

The Anointed - Evangelical Truth in a Secular Age - By Randall J. Stephens and Karl W. Giberson - Book Review | real utopias | Scoop.it
Two writers question the rise of self-styled experts among evangelicals.
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Community-Based Commerce

Community-Based Commerce | real utopias | Scoop.it
Lisa Gansky - In this business-related keynote, author of the 'The Mesh' Lisa Gansky explains why the future of business depends on sharing between a variety of ...
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Michael Parenti: Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth (2012)

Michael Parenti: Democracy and the Pathology of Wealth (2012) | real utopias | Scoop.it
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Michael Parenti - The Face of Imperialism and The 99% Solution University of Guelph 2011

Michael Parenti speaks at the University of Guelph, November 2 2011.
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In a networked world, why is the geography of knowledge still uneven?

In a networked world, why is the geography of knowledge still uneven? | real utopias | Scoop.it
Mark Graham: User-generated internet content is weighted towards the global north; the division of digital labour urgently needs rebalancing (RT @GlobPeaceIndex: In a networked world, why is the geography of knowledge still uneven?
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Who do you think you are? Richard Sennett - Part One

Penoyre Prasad Who Do You Think Are? event film Richard Sennett Part One (Who do you think you are?
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Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman

Bias, Blindness and How We Truly Think (Part 1): Daniel Kahneman | real utopias | Scoop.it
Most of us view the world as more benign than it really is, our own attributes as more favorable than they truly are, and the goals we adopt as more achievable than they are likely to be.
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What’s Going on in Russia? Boris Kagarlitsky’s Take of Events « The Paltry Sapien

What’s Going on in Russia? Boris Kagarlitsky’s Take of Events « The Paltry Sapien | real utopias | Scoop.it
What's Going on in Russia?Boris Kagarlitsky's Take of Events http://t.co/v5STwpJL #Russia...
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Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton

Why Marx Was Right by Terry Eagleton | real utopias | Scoop.it
In the 19th century, the Victorian historian, Thomas Carlyle, dubbed economics "the dismal ...
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Call to Protest: Slavoj Žižek urges renewed resistance

Slavoj Žižek is regarded as one of the ideological pioneers of the Occupy movement, but he says its demands don't go far enough. Žižek sees no future for cap...
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Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn And Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002 For The Fellowship Of The Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) Dvd. Part One.

Unused Audio Commentary By Howard Zinn And Noam Chomsky, Recorded Summer 2002 For The Fellowship Of The Ring (Platinum Series Extended Edition) Dvd. Part One. | real utopias | Scoop.it
Chomsky: The film opens with Galadriel speaking. “The world has changed,” she tells us, “I can feel it in the water.” She’s actually stealing a li...
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Economist, specialized in political economy and peer-to-peer dynamics; core member of the P2P Foundation