Occupy Strategy: Global Strike and Consumer Boycott Should Be on the Agenda
Editor’s Note: This article was originally published, with the very same title, on December 8, 2011. At the time, no significant actions had been taken by Occupy in conjunction with labor movements to take on global capitalism with the peaceful, yet most effective tools of exploited workers: strike and consumer boycott by other citizens to [...]
Labor Action: Pushing for Strike and Consumer Boycott Against Walmart
By Andrea Egizi What started with a warehouse walkout in Southern California on September 12th and Ellwood, Illinois three days later due to poor working conditions, discrimination and undefined/reduced working hours, has erupted in a nationwide movement to improve wages and working conditions for Walmart and its warehouse distributors. Walmart has been noted for being [...]
Global Capitalism: A Castle Made of Sand
The “Looming Fiscal Cliff” The United States election charade is finally over. Apparently Wall Street had mixed feeling about either the results or the general health of the global financial market. On November 7, the Dow Jones index dropped by 312 points. Some mentioned increased “concerns about Europe’s financial crisis,” but the discourse in Washington [...]
Foreclosures: The Scam Continues
By Andrea Egizi For millions of Americans, owning a home is the grandest symbol of accomplishment into the illusion of the “American Dream”. In the United states, we have been indoctrinated to believe being a homeowner signifies success, financial stability and responsibility. My former husband and I had been renters a few years before the [...]
An Attack on Iran Could Hike Oil Prices to $200 a Barrel
Road to World War III: A “Final Solution” for Iran, Syria and Hezbollah In his last appearance in front of the United Nations, Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu stressed the importance of not letting the Iranians cross what he called a “red line”. Netanyahu showed a childish graphic, but regardless of how crude his illustration [...]
