Archive for ‘Economics WG’

Air pollution, the car and public transport

Air pollution, the car and public transport
 

The noxious fumes from both petrol and diesel cars are increasingly being accepted as part of modern life, especially in cities and towns. They are also being recognised for the part they play in shorteningpeople’s lives. Now, scientists are making more discoveries including that particles of air[…]

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10 Years On – Let’s #ChangeFinance

10 Years On – Let’s #ChangeFinance

This September 15th marks ten years since Lehman Brothers collapsed, sparking the global financial crisis. After the crash, the government bailed the banks out with over £130bn of our money, promising they would #ChangeFinance by reforming the banks, but instead starved our public services, wages and economy of investment.[…]

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Hedge funds helped wreck Puerto Rico

Hedge funds helped wreck Puerto Rico by Aengus mac Og.
It’s another symptom of the way things are within this corrupt and untethered political and economic system.
Puerto Rico as we know is not one of the wealthiest places in the world and is slowly but surely going bankrupt. I hear today that US hedge[…]

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Italy added to the Railway Gravy Train

Italy added to the railway gravy train.
First the Germans and the French, now the Italians are joining the privatised Railway gravy train.
Both Jeremy Corbyn of Labour and Caroline Lucas of the Greens, along with 66% voters, including 52% of Conservative voters, want Railways back in public hands.
As pointed out by Jeremy Corbyn,[…]

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Judge Langley Gives Green Light to CORRUPTION!

Judge Langley Gives Green Light to CORRUPTION!
Women`s charity kicking out homeless women, including one pregnant, onto the streets who have been searching for a place to stay this winter.
They wanted to surprise the homeless in the area, along with people who are looking for company from the local community, with Christmas dinner this[…]

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Camden Mothership Campaigners Hope for Christmas Dinner in the Housing Office

  
  
  
PRESS RELEASE
Can Mike Cooke- Save Christmas?
Housing Campaigners Hope for Christmas Dinner in the Housing Office
Although there is overwhelming support from the public and negotiations have been ongoing for the last fortnight, Camden Council has commenced legal proceedings to take the Mothership Group to court on Friday 27th November at[…]

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Whipps Cross Hospital in Intensive Care by RadicalMic

Whipps Cross Hospital in Intensive Care
 
“That’s the standard technique of privatization: defund, make sure things don’t work, people get angry, you hand it over to private capital.” Noam Chomsky
 
Politicians love to blame everyone else for bringing the NHS to its knees – even the patients themselves are seen to be guilty.[…]

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You think you are not going to be homeless anytime soon? Think again.

  
  

Long story short . . .
My partner and I split up, it happens and I wish her well. That’s not special, it stung a bit at the beginning but we all have those stories and they make us who we are. Nuff said.
Going back two years . . . (insert scooby[…]

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March4Homeless Livestream by Tammy Samede

  
  

What a day !!
Got evicted from our squat at 5:30am high court enforcers smashed in the glass doors and hauled us out.
We had to sit in the streets all day then with our stuff…
We went on the march for the homeless I was legal observing it was pretty awesome.
The[…]

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