capitalism
talking empires: cotton and capitalism
Watch this awesome lecture on the relationship between the history of cotton and capitalism.
declaration against the criminalisation, persecution and judicialization of the struggle for the defence of life, rights, land, water, seeds and mother earth
International Conference on Agrarian Reform La Via Campesino, The Peasant's Movement Marabá, 15 April 2016 From 13 to 17 April 2016, in Marabá, Pará, Brazil, more than 130 delegates from 28 countries around the world were brought together as part of La Vía Campesina and allied movements, as part of the International Conference on Agrarian […]
just another juicy book about monopoly practices
"The Fish That Ate the Whale" is the fourth book on the banana barons to be published in English in the past five years, and even interested readers may by now be suffering banana fatigue. The industry developed in the final quarter of the 19th century as adventuresome Bostonians figured out how to get bananas […]
cartoon life advice soul medicine
If a comic illustration can read like an heart-stirring anthem plays, then the one below would have all of us on our feet hollering along with our eyes closed. Quite honestly, greenhorns, I teared up a little reading this comic this morning. Leave it to Bill Watterson to tell you just what you need to hear when […]
a tale of two food prizes
What’s in a prize? The politics of distribution versus growth. On October 14th in Des Moines, Iowa, the Food Sovereignty Prize will be awarded to the Federation of Southern Cooperatives, run by African-American farmers of the southern United States and to OFRANEH—the Black Fraternal Organization of Honduras (Organización Fraternal Negra Hondureña). The next day, hundreds […]
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‘This Changes Everything’ Trailer: Climate Change Documentary Based On Naomi Klein’s Bestseller Set For Toronto Premiere Watch Trailer Here: http://deadline.com/2015/08/this-changes-everything-climate-change-docu-tiff-premiere-trailer-1201506754/