What Happened to the Crackdown on Executive Pay?
New Treasury rules have backpedaled on CEO pay reform for bailed-out companies. But we can no longer afford the status quo.
People Power Pushed the New Deal
Roosevelt didn’t come up with all those progressive programs on his own.
A Bold Agenda for Change: Voices from the Front Lines of the Economic Crisis
Representatives from poverty-fighting networks from across the United States will testify at an ad-hoc hearing hosted by the Congressional Progressive Caucus.
The people who will testify come from all over the United States: from Los Angeles to New York; from New Orleans to Boston. They include people most severely affected by the economic crisis, including day laborers, domestic workers, and people fighting the eviction of people from their homes. This event is part of an effort to forge a bold agenda that creates good jobs and advances economic and environmental justice here and abroad.
Members of the Inter-Alliance Dialogue — an emerging coalition of networks representing domestic workers, janitors, day laborers, housing activists, worker rights advocates, and others from the front lines of the economic crisis — will speak, including:
Jobs with Justice: Sarita Gupta and Elce Redmond
Grassroots Global Justice Alliance: Jihan Gearon and Tammy Bang Luu
National Day Laborers Organizing Network: Jacinta Gonzales
Right to the City: Roxan McKinnon, Wanda Salaman, and Melonie Griffiths
National Domestic Workers Alliance: Jocelyn Gill-Campbell
This event is FREE and open to the public.
Creating Another World: The World Social Forum 2009 Reports Back
At the end of January over 100,000 people gathered on the edge of the Amazon rainforest for the 9th World Social Forum. Participants spent a week imaging a new world rising out of the ashes of today’s economic, ecological, and cultural crises.
Please join DC-based friends and colleagues for a brown-bag conversation featuring short reflections on climate justice, indigenous rights, labor, financial crisis and environmental issues and proposals that emerged from the Forum. If you were at the World Social Forum, we invite you to share your experience, too. Bring your own lunch and join the discussion!
A Bold Proposal for a New Economy
John Cavanagh talks about David Korten’s new book, which proposes a real-wealth solution to the current financial crisis.
Ecuador’s Debt Default: Exposing a Gap in the Global Financial Architecture
The South American country’s refusal to make ‘immoral and illegitimate’ payments exposes an international financial architecture glitch.
Skewed Priorities
The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and European governments have committed to bail out financial firms is 40 times the money they’re spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world.
Bailouts Dwarf Spending on Climate and Poverty Crises
The approximately $4.1 trillion that the United States and Europe have committed to rescue financial firms is 40 times the money they’re spending to fight climate and poverty crises in the developing world.
People’s Summit Against the G20
Towards an Economic System that Works for People and the Planet
A civil society statement on the G20 summit from IPS Director John Cavanagh and coalition members.
