Ideas into Action in Durban
This week, IPS is taking its ideas to the UN Climate Change Summit in South Africa.
America Is Not Broke: Fiscal Reforms that Washington Needs to Consider
Taxing Wall Street, corporations and the wealthy; taxing pollution and ending environmentally harmful subsidies; and cutting military spending to bring America back.
Durban Diary: Repaying Climate Debt
We have to mobilize the political will of rich countries to share the wealth.
How Occupy is Transforming Our National Conversation
In just two months, the Occupy movement has begun to unseat an economic narrative that held sway for thirty years.
Emerging Economies Join G20 Coalition to Tax Speculation
The struggle to tax Wall Street moved forward in Cannes.
Obama: If You Can’t Lead Then Get Out of the Way
Major U.S. environment, development and faith groups call on President Obama not to block European countries’ progress toward a financial speculation tax at the G-20 Summit.
Gates Backs the Wall Street Tax at the G20 Summit
The 99 percent and the 0.001 percent agree on something, but the Obama administration is holding out.
The Costs of Wall Street Greed
Despite growing support in Europe and elsewhere, the Obama administration has remained opposed to a Wall Street tax.
Taxing the Wall Street Casino Fact Sheet
Governments around the world are struggling to deal with the crushing problems of joblessness, poverty, and climate change. A financial speculation tax is the best option on the table to raise the massive revenues needed to address these urgent needs.
Briefing On Financial Transaction Taxes
IPS is co-sponsoring this educational event on proposals to place small taxes on trades of stocks and other financial instruments as a way to generate massive revenues and discourage short-term speculation.
Obama Supported Financial Transactions Taxes – Before Summers Nixed It
It’s not too late for the president to revisit some of his earlier positions in support of progressive economic policies, including financial transactions taxes.
Europe Taking Lead on Speculations Tax
Why is Europe leaving the United States behind on applying a small tax on financial transactions?
U.S. Nurses Bring Global Call to Tax Speculators to Wall Street
National Nurses United stands with activists across the globe to bring attention to the need for a financial speculation tax.
G20: Confusion Over the Characterization of the Current Crisis
This article is part of the presentations for the seminar “RMALC: 20 years resisting and building alternatives to free trade.” A summary in English is followed by the original Spanish version, including hyperlinks.