Great things have been claimed for the Olympics. Superlative things. They will be the ‘regeneration’ games, transforming East London, considered one of the poorest areas…
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Last Saturday, some 3,000 thousand people gathered around Saint Paul’s cathedral in London to “Occupy the London Stock Exchange” (or LSX). Two days later, the…
The following video consists of a 2011 online presentation by Miriam Torres of the Environmental Justice Coalition for Water, which helps local groups build a…
The real world event of what’s been called the Cochabamba Water Wars found its way into two recent feature films. Cochabamba is the third largest…
Over the past several weeks, residents of the Ethelred Estate – a 900-unit housing estate situated just south of the Thames river in the London…
Is the lack of recreational space making us fatter? Probably. (Among other things) Americans are getting fatter every day. I’m sure there’s a statistic out…
Estate by Fugitive Images, Paul Hallam, Victor Buchli, Andrea Luka Zimmerman, Lasse Johansson, Tristan Fennell Paperback, 152 pages Published September 24th 2010 Please buy direct…
This is how much the developed countries spent per capita on healthcare a few years ago, contrasted with average life-expectancy: This is what privatisation with…
Ryan interviews Janette Bulkan, who has worked on issues of poor governance, corruption, and their negative impacts on people, the economy, and the ecology in...
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