“Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything Better than you.”— song from Annie Get Your Gun The conventional wisdom is … Dumbocracy’s DemiseRead more
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How Worker-Owned Companies Work
Theresa Riley: What drew you to this topic as filmmakers? Why did you want to make this film? Mark Dworkin and Melissa Young: As filmmakers … How Worker-Owned Companies WorkRead more
Posted inDemocracy / Dictatorship / Egypt / ToMl
Egypt: Coups Modern and Postmodern
This situation, both tragic and absurd, recalls Pakistan’s coupmaker Zia ul-Haq, who overthrew and proceeded to execute his democratically-elected predecessor Zulfikar Bhutto on trumped-up charges … Egypt: Coups Modern and PostmodernRead more
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Monsanto’s Next Target: Democracy
Big Food’s greatest fear is materializing. A critical mass of educated consumers, food and natural health activists are organizing a powerful movement that could well … Monsanto’s Next Target: DemocracyRead more
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Systematic Assault on US Constitution
A lawsuit challenging a controversial statute that gives the government the power to indefinitely detain U.S. citizens is back in federal court this week. On … Systematic Assault on US ConstitutionRead more
Posted inDemocracy / Technology / ToMl
Welcome to the machine
as far as what Snowden has revealed, I think when Ron Wyden suggests that what has been revealed is merely the tip of the iceberg, … Welcome to the machineRead more
Posted inDemocracy / Economics / Worker
Democracy at Work
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8xGY6Lc71ns&rel=0] Nothing new about this. In 60s Horizontal movements started in Argentina. You can see it in hour of the furnaces send part. New initiatives … Democracy at WorkRead more
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Citizens, Not Consumers
Annie Leonard spent 20 years working for environmental organizations, studying where our stuff comes from and where it goes. She followed waste from industrialized countries … Citizens, Not ConsumersRead more
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An Excess of Democracy
The ability of the Occupy movement to create platforms outside our closed political system to force open a debate on inequality, the taboo at the … An Excess of DemocracyRead more