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- 12/20/2001
-Argentina's president resigns as Argentina explodes in looting and protests
Argentina's President Fernando De la Rua resigned on Thursday after two years in office, fleeing from the government palace in a h
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- 01/20/2002
-THE BUSINESS SIDE OF WAR
Long-time readers of this writer will recall the claim that all wars have an economic interest, and are fought for economic
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- 01/31/2002
-The Giant Sucking Sound Of The Other Chapter 11
Arianna's article on the Chapter 11 provision of NAFTA exposes the deep-seated corruption in so-called "free-trade" agreements whe
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- 03/14/2002
-Study: Living Wage Laws Reduce Poverty
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Home health care worker Claudia Arevalo says her life changed for the better in 2000, when San Francisco ena
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- 03/17/2002
-More Than 300,000 Protest Against EU Summit
More than 300,000 people marched through the streets of downtown Barcelona in one of the biggest demonstrations ever to coinci
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- 04/22/2002
-Matt Gonzalez Tackles Minimum Wage
Matt Gonzalez, Green Party member and SF Supervisor, has launched a campaign to establish a minimum wage here in San Francisco.
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- 04/22/2002
-The California Clean Money Campaign
Writing in the Nation, November 19, 2001, Bill Moyers said "the soul of democracy has been dying, drowning in a rising tide of bi
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- 04/24/2002
-Taxpayers, Environmentalist to Davis:'Save the Surplus, Cut Polluting Programs'
New Report Exposes $23 Billion In Wasteful State Programs that Harm Environment
SAN FRANCISCO -- A coalition of t
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- 05/04/2002
-How Wal-Mart is Remaking our World
Bullying people from your town to China
Corporations rule. No other institution comes close to matching the pow
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- 05/14/2002
-Greens Say No To Bush's Marriage Proposal
Welfare 'reform' will impose massive federal control, enforce dependence, turn many women into second-class citizens, and continue
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- 06/01/2002
-National Health Insurance
Liberal Benefits, Conservative Spending
FEW WOULD dispute that our health care system is deeply troubled.
Thirty-nine million Americans are completely uninsured
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- 06/17/2002
-Newsom Proposal Will Increase Homelessness in San Francisco
Don't sign the Newsom petition! - Please forward to your allies.
Supervisor Newsom is pretending his legislation will
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- 06/18/2002
-Guerrilla of the Week
Corporate raider Ralph Nader is back, making sense of the so-called "corporate crime wave":
What Business Week magazine
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- 06/24/2002
-A Big Mess in California: Without Health Care People Are Going to Die
The 2002-2003 state budget winds blow cold in sunny California for low-income families, elderly, and disabled residents.
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- 06/25/2002
-A celebration to honor labor's victory in S.F. : Monument to strikers who fought in 1934
The dot-com revolution may have permanently altered the Bay Area's labor picture, but it can never obscure its history.
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- 07/05/2002
-Social Justice and Globalization: Are they Compatible?
In a speech in 1999, Henry Kissinger, secretary of state under Presidents Nixon and Ford, candidly remarked that “globalization”
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- 07/06/2002
-Closing the Budget Gap: A Green Perspective
Green Party Gubernatorial candidate Peter Camejo today announced “The Democrats and Republicans have completely failed Californi
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- 07/11/2002
-Renouncing Sins Against the Corporate Faith
Just about every politician and pundit is eager to denounce wrongdoing in business these days. Sinners have defiled the holy que
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- 11/29/2002
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A word of comfort to those who doubt that the world stands at a tipping point: Shell International is a believer. The oil giant's
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- 02/06/2003
-Does This President Actually Believe His Own Words?
AUSTIN, Texas -- "We will not pass along our problems to other Congresses, to other presidents, and other generations."
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- 03/11/2003
-Dollars and Nonsense: It's the post war Economy, Stupid!
Among the questions about a war against Iraq is the effect it would have on the world economy. Some things we already know, and ma
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- 03/20/2003
-Gonzalez Speaks to the Greens (updated)
On Feb. 26, 2003 San Francisco’s new Board of Supervisors President and Green Party member Matt Gonzalez stopped by the local Gree
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- 04/11/2003
-Principles and Profits
In Bad Economic Times, Socially Responsible Investing Makes More Sense Than Ever
NOT LONG AGO, at my suggestion, the people who run Contra Costa County's $2.6 billion pension fund agreed to conduct a
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- 05/06/2003
-Gonzalez Today Calls For Municipal Minimum Wage
Business leaders criticize the move as harmful to business owners, job creation, and entry level workers.
Gonzalez charac
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- 05/09/2003
-Study: Boost SF Minimum Wage
An economist's new study finds that San Francisco could boost its minimum wage several dollars above the state-mandated level, wit
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- 05/11/2003
-Snapshots of Our Economy and Politics
This is a column of tidbits -- to be sure, important tidbits. I think they are part of a mosaic of our times. But I'll let you dec
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- 02/26/2004
-Union, Groceries reach tentative agreement in SoCal; NorCal contracts expire in September
(02-26) 21:41 PST LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Negotiators for three supermarket chains and grocery clerks reached a tentative contract
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- 08/24/2004
-American Healthcare is the Best in the World If"
How many times in the last twenty years have you heard some American politician proclaim, “The American health care system is the
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- 11/28/2004
-How Health Services Can Be Preserved
An Open Letter to the San Francisco Supervisors:
Dear Supervisor,
We are the Coalition for Public Health, an
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- 11/28/2004
-Activist Sues to Stop Laguna Honda Downsize
San Francisco healthcare accountability activist Patrick Monette-Shaw has filed a lawsuit to stop the downsizing of San Francisco'
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- 04/26/2006
-Oakland's 46th Homicide More Than A Statistic
OAKLAND – As a candidate for Oakland's City Council, Aimee Allison has become well briefed on the violence ravaging the East Bay
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- 08/22/2006
-Democrats Should Be ‘Ashamed' for Abandoning State's Lowest Paid Workers in Minimum Wage Plan
SACRAMENTO – Democrats should be "ashamed" of themselves for abandoning the state's lowest wage earners and "selling out" to Rep
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- 50 Years is Enough
US network for global and economic justice. Especially focused on the role of the IMF and World Back in promoting global and economic injustice.
- Shared Capitalism's list of economic facts
A vast and compelling list of economic and societal statistics, both national and global
- San Francisco Community Land Trust Collaborative
This organization has been working with Green Party Supervisor Matt Gonzalez to bring affordable housing and community space to SF through land trusts.
- World Bank Boycott
Exercise your power, in the spirit of the anti-apartheid divestment movement. Demand a say over how your community or institution invests your money. Ask your institution or town to boycott World Bank bonds and stand with global civil society in demanding global justice – and an end to debt slavery, economic colonialism, and projects that destroy environments.
- The Global Rulemakers
Every wondered what "anti-globalization" marchers are protesting against? If so, check out this Global Exchange report on the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and "free trade" agreements in general.
- Life and Debt movie site
The web site for the compelling documentary that shows the effect that International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies have had on Jamaica. A great film for those who do not know about the policies of the IMF or who would like to learn more. Screening dates are listed on the site.
- corpwatch.org
Keeping an eye on corporate influence on domestic and international affairs.
- Living Wage Resources Center
Information on living wage ordinances in the US as well as information on how to organize a campaign.
- Mondragon Cooperative
The largest cooperative business in the world, Mondragon has approximately $10 billion in revenue per year and 60,000 employees. They are enjoying precipitous growth and serve as a model for democratic control of work and capital worldwide. Cooperative business is an essential component in transforming society into a more fair and democratic entity.
- Center for Economic Policy and Research
Professionally-written detailed articles on national and international politics.
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Recommended Reading:
- Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich - and Cheat Everybody Else
by David Cay Johnston
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David Cay Johnston provides a survey of how the rich and super-rich get our of paying taxes, and details the recent trend away from taxing returns on capital and toward taxing wages more heavily. This book exposes most of the methods employed by corporations and their rich executives and shareholders to avoid paying their fair share in taxes. Johnston skillfully combines narrative anecdotes, statistics, and economic theory to illustrate what amounts to class warfare conducted by the rich on the rest of us, and lays the blame squarely where it belongs: at the feet of the rich and their Democratic and Republican lackeys in congress, the presidency, and state houses across the country.