Our democracy no longer represents the people. Here’s how we fix it | Larry Lessig | TEDxMidAtlantic

October 12, 2019 at 11:29 am | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Translator: Milenka Okuka Reviewer: Mile Živković So, it turns out exactly a year ago, right now, right this minute, a year ago in Hong Kong, an extraordinary protest began. Protest begun by students, literally, high school and college students, elementary school students, then their parents felt a little embarrassed that they had let their kids

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Richard Wolff on the Auto Industry

October 9, 2019 at 12:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Let me turn now to the automobile industry, a topic we return to often because so much of the last century of American history has been shaped around the private automobile. Let’s begin this way: the private car is the largest single cause of air pollution in our society. What comes out of the tailpipe

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Questioning the Underlying Structures of Property and Power is “Off the Table” – Vijay Prashad (2/4)

October 7, 2019 at 12:30 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

PAUL JAY: Welcome back to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay in Baltimore. And welcome back to Reality Asserts Itself on The Real News Network. We’re continuing our interview with Vijay Prashad. And you can find a full biography of Vijay somewhere down below the video player. But just to remind you quickly, Vijay

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Skilling Up

October 4, 2019 at 1:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

SPEAKER:>>Hello and welcome to everybody to what will be a very important discussion. If you are here today, it is because the fourth industrial revolution is well underway. It is having ripple effects across the planet, not least of course in the world of work. It is a story we will be dealing with about

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Richard Wolff on Conservative Response to Warren’s Wealth Tax

October 2, 2019 at 9:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

I’m gonna focus on Elizabeth Warren’s [wealth tax] plan because it is the most clearly and worked out and detailed plan. Here’s her plan. She would require an annual 2% tax (2%) on all portfolios or all net worth individuals who have (get ready now) more than $50 million dollars. So a lot of you

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Mobilizing Action for Inclusive Societies

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. . That while you have a few hundred thousand direct employees you have 3 million in workers in your supply chains that help you make the profits. In that context, what we do about that? That is not the case in Unilever, what some of those areas. I’ve helped some of your colleague Sol.

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Understanding the rise of China | Martin Jacques

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The world is changing with really remarkable speed. If you look at the chart at the top here, you’ll see that in 2025, these Goldman Sachs projections suggest that the Chinese economy will be almost the same size as the American economy. And if you look at the chart for 2050, it’s projected that the

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Richard Wolff and Harriet Fraad on Capitalism’s Effects on Mental Health

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And in a brief study that I did over three months of mass shootings (and there is now one every day. There has been one in every day in 2019 and I haven’t kept up with all them), but the shooters are mainly millennials between 23 and 28, they’re all men, and they’ve lost a

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Capitalism Hits Home: Listen Up Leftists, There’s a Class Revolution in the Household – Part 1

October 1, 2019 at 11:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

Hello, this is Dr. Harriet Fraad on Capitalism Hits Home: An Interpersonal Update. This is a show about the intersection of capitalism, class, and our personal lives. This podcast today is called “Listen Up Leftists, There’s a Class Revolution in the Household” and there indeed is a revolution that’s happened right under our noses and

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From the Grassroots – Tools of Effective Community Organizing

September 28, 2019 at 3:29 pm | Articles, Blog | Ruben Talley -

The key quality of a good community organizer is the ability to listen to people, to what they are saying and to the solutions that are coming from the community. Sometimes we come in from outside, thinking we have the answers and, for the most part, we don’t. The people who are affected by the

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“From the Grassroots – Tools of Effective Community Organizing”

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