ourEconomy
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Putting people, planet and power at the centre of the debate about our economic future. From @openDemocracy
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy 19-01-2019 15:09:20
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Today Nicola Scherer and Alfons Pérez in openDemocracy:
'Debt is not merely a financial issue but can also be used as a tool of oppression and extortion: the creditor is able to wield power over the debtor, influencing their political decisions.'
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📣 Just out: my new article for openDemocracy explains why govt plans for migrant care workers have shades of slavery, and why these restrictions will affect us all: opendemocracy.net/en/migrant-car…
OPINION: The UN’s signature climate change conference has garnered rightful criticism for being hosted in Dubai in 2023. But the fact that one of the world’s biggest landowners is launching the event should invite just as much scrutiny
#COP28 #RoyalFamily
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Trade through the Panama Canal has been disrupted by drought, raising the prices of goods globally
It's a dynamic we should get used to as climate inaction continues and the effects of the climate crisis worsen
Good read from James Meadway
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🚨 BREAKING NEWS 🚨 We must fight for Disabled people’s independence!
Our piece in openDemocracy about Bristol councils appalling proposed policy and our fight back 💥
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Written for openDemocracy on the Panama Canal drought - the polycrisis in microcosm: ecological challenges, trade and inflation, geopolitics, it's all there: opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…
How the Panama Canal is a 'Polycrisis node' of trade, climate change, inflation, inequality and the rise of China in the Americas, by James Meadway - one for Adam Tooze opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…
ICYMI: special Macrodose this week with guest presenter Kojo Koram on Jamaica’s historic role in the frontline opposing the early years of neoliberalism, and fighting for a global alternative…
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Protests at Big Ag takeover of #UNFSS2023 as small-scale farmers and Indigenous are again locked out of a UN Food System Summit. More on this opendemocracy.net/en/oureconomy/…
'A dystopian future where a handful of corporations control everything we eat is just around the corner, if we do not resist. The global governance of food is being hijacked by corporate interests' warn Shalmali Guttal & Sofia Monsalve as #UNFSS2023 begins
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Thanks to openDemocracy for all their work. And to Emily Kenway Helen Hester for their thought provoking contributions- I learnt so much from this event and hat tip to the audience & the contributions from the floor.
