Topic: Inequality
Richest 1 percent bagged 82 percent of wealth created last year – poorest half of humanity got nothing
Report / 23rd January 2018Eighty two percent of the wealth generated last year went to the richest one percent of the global population, while the 3.7 billion people who make up the poorest half of the world saw no increase in their wealth, according to a new Oxfam report.
Un dialogo su protesta, condivisione e giustizia
Article / 22nd January 2018Con l’aggravarsi della crisi economica, la principale responsabilità dei governi è ridisegnare i nostri sistemi politici ed economici in modo che nessuno muoia di fame. Ma questo non accadrà mai senza un’esplosione di sostegno pubblico senza precedenti.
Thousands still dying at sea en route to Europe
News / 18th January 2018Amid concerns that 160 people may have drowned while attempting to cross the Mediterranean this week alone, the UN refugee agency have urged countries to offer more resettlement places.
"End the age of greed": Davos week of action 19-26th January
News / 17th January 2018Members of the Fight Inequality Alliance will from January 19th to 26th, mobilise across the world to highlight the crisis of rising inequality and demand the end to the age of greed and for a more equal society. The 2018 Week of Action takes place under the theme ‘End the Age of Greed‘ and will be parallel to the annual World Economic Forum, a meeting of the world’s elite in the financial sector.
Let’s wrench power back from the billionaires
Article / 15th January 2018We must develop a new and international progressive movement that takes on the greed and ideology of the billionaire class, and commits itself to tackling structural inequality both between and within nations, writes Bernie Sanders.
Extreme poverty returns to America
Blog / 9th January 2018The U.N. finds growing numbers of Americans are living in the most impoverished circumstances. How did we get here? asks Premilla Nadasen.
Iran’s protests take place against a backdrop of inequality
Blog / 9th January 2018Will Iran listen to groups like the IMF or the voice of its people? Unless the country deals with basic economic concerns and inequality, the frustrations will continue to simmer, writes Negin Owliaei.
Doughnut economics: an economic model for the future
Blog / 2nd January 2018The distributive concept of the 21st century is not about redistribution, but about sharing the sources of wealth from the start. An interview with Kate Raworth, by Triodos bank.
Unire il popolo del mondo
Article / 24th December 2017È arrivata l’ora in cui dobbiamo manifestare in milioni non contro questo o quello, ma piuttosto per chi siamo
The Commons Transition Primer
Article / 22nd December 2017A new dedicated website by the P2P Foundation explains the meaning of and relationship between the Commons and peer-to-peer (P2P) frameworks, and details how a growing movement for a commons transition is poised to reinvigorate labor, politics, production, and carework – from both an interpersonal and environmental perspective.