Neo Liberalism

Participatory Action Research and Organizing for Justice

Donna Nevel | Posted 03.11.2012

Read More: Participatory Action Research, Occupy Movements, Angela Davis, Organizing for Justice, Social Movements, Global Protest Movements, Occupy Protests, Neo Liberalism, Books News
Donna Nevel

Participatory Action Research is very much in line with the politics of the Occupy movements. The principles of PAR have been critical to social movements for self-determination throughout the world.

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The Israeli Summer

Noah Efron | Posted 09.30.2011

Read More: Privatization, Politics, Israel, Demonstrations, Neo-Liberalism, Economy, Protest, Tel Aviv, World News
Noah Efron

Protesters have demanded an end to wholesale privatization. They have demanded that the country provide everyone with a good, fair start to life -- with guaranteed food and shelter, and good, free early education.

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School Reform Is a Dead End, Unless...

James Gee | Posted 08.13.2011

Read More: School Reform, Digital Media, Job Market, Civil Society, Neo-Liberalism, Education News
James Gee

Could it be that all our talk about school reform helps us to ignore issues too divisive and too threatening to our own slim hold on ever decreasing middle-class privilege to really engage with?

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Market-Based Dogmas Undermine Strong Education

Rick Ayers | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Waiting for Superman, Free Market, Neo Liberalism, Education Reform, Charter Schools, Education News
Rick Ayers

Education is all a race, a competition. States must compete against states. Districts against districts. Schools against schools.

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Ask Workers in Cambodia and Bangladesh: Where Has Corporate Social Responsibility Been?

Jeff Ballinger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Bill Clinton, Workers, Corporate Globalization, International-Trade-Unions, Free Trade, Corporate Social Responsibility, Bangladesh, Reebok, Worker Rights, Nike, Neo-Liberalism, Fair Labor Association, Cambodia, Levi?S, Csr, Corporate Greed, Sweatshops, Mattel, World News
Jeff Ballinger

Since the earliest "code of conduct" requirements for supplier factories, labor rights have declined nearly to the vanishing point in production-for-export areas around the world.

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Educating for Democracy: Teachers in Florida Stage "Sick Out" From Testing

Joel Shatzky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Charter Schools, Neo-Liberalism, Race to the Top, Teacher Sick Outs, New York News
Joel Shatzky

Teachers are sick and tired of being scapegoated for "failing schools."

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Haiti: Public Relations War and Historical Symbolism

Nikolas Kozloff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hugo Chavez, Haiti Earthquake, Rene Preval, Bill Clinton, Latin America, Latin America Policy, Neo-Liberalism, Economic Development, Barack Obama, U.S. Policy in Latin America, Politics News
Nikolas Kozloff

With both Chavez and the U.S. looking to reverse their political fortunes in Latin America, could Haiti become the setting for geopolitical tensions?

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The G20 Summit: Hijacked by Neo-Liberalism

Marshall Auerback | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Monetary Policy, Imf, Obama, Surplus, Deficits, Neo-Liberalism, g20, Business News
Marshall Auerback

Government deficits are not an aberration; they are the norm. Our first (and possibly greatest) Treasury Secretary, Alexander Hamilton, called the national debt a "national blessing."

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The People's Hedge Fund & Fighting For Economic Justice Using Boycotts Tied to Short-Sales: My Interview in Playboy France

Max Keiser | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Playboy, Washington Concensus, Starbucks, Playboy France, Naomi Klein, Karma Bank, Neo Liberalism, Coca Cola, Karmabanque, Mcdonald´S, Business News
Max Keiser

I am not anti-capitalist anti-profit ... I think these things can work if we find that balance. Our system is plagued by the horrors of speculation that ignores human and environmental rights. They see them as a luxury.

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