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Spanish Indignados Return to City Squares
Tens of thousands celebrated the 15M movement's birthday in cities across Spain.
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The Bank Vs. America Showdown
In shareholders’ meetings and in the streets, how 99% Power is taking on Bank of America.
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A Vision of America the Possible
Gus Speth imagines a compelling vision of a better, happier country—and how to make it possible.
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How I Found Happiness (in 130 Square Feet)
Photo Essay: Don’t think you know how to build your own house? Neither did 23-year-old Ella Jenkins before she picked up the tools and started.
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Mobile Slaughterhouses Help Meat Go Local
Scarcity of certified processing facilities is one reason the meat industry is so consolidated—so farmer Bruce Dunlop invented a mobile slaughterhouse.
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OWS Marks May Day With a Beatific Vision and a Big March
What will be the lasting impacts of Occupy’s latest major action?
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May Day in Context
How do this year's May Day demonstrations fit into the international movement for economic justice?
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Farmers Markets Move Online
Regional, web-based services to connect small-time growers to consumers are popping up around the country.
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A Plea for Rio+20: Don’t Commodify Nature
David Korten: Indigenous wisdom reveals a path to the future that does not include a buy-out of the earth’s natural systems.
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Occupy, the 99% Spring, and the New Age of Direct Action
Collaboration or cooptation? Expansion or dilution? Mark Engler on what to make of the 99% Spring.
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8 Ways to De-Corporatize Your Money
Debit or credit? Keep your dollars out of corporate clutches.
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No Tax Dollars for Deadbeats
With corporations spending millions to dodge taxes, we’re directing our tax resentment at the wrong people.
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Can There Be “Good” Corporations?
When companies are owned by workers and the community—instead of Wall Street financiers—everything changes.
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The UN Embraces the Economics of Happiness
Leaders from around the world want well-being—not gross national product—to guide our economic decisions.
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Cooperatives Put People—and Democracy—to Work
How worker-owned businesses from Cleveland to Spain are nurturing life and jobs outside the corporate framework.
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When Bankers Rule the World
How we can call out the myths, restructure the banking system, shut down the con game, and take back America.
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A DIY Civilization
Can we create the machines of modern life sustainably, cheaply, and close to home?
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A World Bank President We Can Get Behind?
The candidates for next month’s selection could finally change the game of serving markets over people—and we all might have a role to play.
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Why Leaving Goldman Sachs Breaks the Rules of the Game
Defector Greg Smith has been called dishonest, unprofessional, and self-serving. But what might he be telling us about how to do business responsibly?
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