Webinar: Connecting the Dots: How Fair Financing Can Help Save the Planet
Join us for a lively conversation with movement leaders about how advocating for a tiny tax on Wall Street is taking a moral action on climate and inequality.
An Open Letter to Obama: If You Want Money for the Climate, Tax Wall Street
An innovative new tax could fund climate transition and help rebuild the social safety net. So why is the White House knocking it?
The Financial Transactions Tax: Seven Frequently Asked Questions
As European countries engage in advanced negotiations over the first regional financial transaction tax, this memo aims to answer some frequently asked questions about the issue.
Robin Hood Tax rally to kick off People’s Climate March
Tax on Wall Street key to funding climate solutions
Celebrities, European Leaders Push for Final Deal on Wall Street Tax
A new viral video with Andrew Lincoln of “The Walking Dead” is one more setback for financial industry lobbyists fighting a financial transaction tax.
What’s Hot and What’s Not at COP19 in Warsaw
As negotiations at the annual UN climate summit enter their final days, three participants weigh in on what’s hot – and what’s not – at COP19.
Inside-outside Strategy on Wall Street Tax
countries are already raising significant revenue from national financial transaction taxes.
How About a Tax System for the 99 Percent?
Feeling like taxes are more unfair than ever?
Wall Street’s Climate Finance Bonanza
Government officials from an elite group of developed countries meeting in Washington DC appear to be on the brink of instigating yet another big bank giveaway, this time in the name of fighting climate change.
March to IMF, World Bank, and US Treasury
Robin Hood Rides Again! Join IPS’ SEEN and many others as we march to the citadels of international finance to demand that the banks pay us back!
A Tiny Tax in Europe, a Big Win for Climate?
Global campaigners are pushing European Union countries to be ambitious in targeting a significant portion of revenue from taxing financial transactions to fight climate chaos.
Giant Victory in Europe on Taxing Financial Speculation
European ministers didn’t even have to take a formal vote because it was obvious that there was sufficient support to move ahead.
European Parliament Supports Robin Hood Tax in Landslide Vote
Yeas outnumbered nays by a margin of 6-to-1. The next step will be a vote in the European Council, which is likely to happen in early 2013.
Empty Anti-Wall Street Rhetoric
Lots of office-seekers this fall are campaigning against the 1 percent, but will they govern that way?
Six Global Issues The Foreign Policy Debates Won’t Touch
In the foreign policy debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney, expect these issues to get short thrift.