Topic: Inequality
Debating how to protect and share the commons
Blog / 18th August 2015The latest discussion among members of the Great Transition Initiative focuses on a pragmatic institutional innovation for protecting and sharing co-owned resources, as outlined in an incisive article by Peter Barnes on Common Wealth Trusts.
Heralding Article 25: A people’s strategy for world transformation
Report / 30th July 2015After so many years of political inaction only the massed goodwill of ordinary people can bring about an end to poverty in a world of plenty through enormous and continual protests across all countries. So let’s take the path of least resistance and jointly herald the long-agreed human rights of Article 25—for adequate food, housing, healthcare and social security for all.
New publication: Mohammed Sofiane Mesbahi introduces a visionary ‘people’s strategy for world transformation’
Article / 30th July 2015Share The World’s Resources (STWR) have published a flagship publication on the need for a massive mobilisation of civil society to end hunger and life-threatening poverty as an overriding priority for the world’s governments, which will require an unprecedented uprising of ordinary people on behalf of the least privileged among us.
Nueva publicación STWR liberado: Mohammed S. Mesbahi esboza una estrategia visionaria para la transformación del mundo
Blog / 29th July 2015Compartir Los Recursos Del Mundo (STWR) ha editado una nueva publicación importante sobre la necesidad de una movilización masiva de la sociedad civil para terminar con el hambre y la pobreza que ponen en peligro la vida, como una prioridad absoluta para los gobiernos del mundo, lo que requerirá un levantamiento sin precedentes de la gente común en nombre de los menos privilegiados entre nosotros.
Eine Untersuchung darüber, was es heißt, Nahrungsmittel zu teilen
Article / 29th July 2015Wenn es uns ein Anliegen ist, die andauernde, und auch kriminelle Hungersnot in einer Welt des Überflusses zu beenden, können wir unser Handeln nicht nur auf unser Land oder unsere Gemeinde beschränken. Stattdessen sollten wir das Teilen der Nahrungsmittel auf einer globalen Ebene ins Auge fassen, vor allem hinsichtlich einer Politik, den Hunger abzuschaffen, sagt Mohammed Mesbahi
A reflection on Pope Francis’ clarion call to #sharetheplanet
Article / 10th July 2015The Catholic Church has embraced a radical position on sharing the world’s resources, one that we would all do well to heed and ponder. But the real significance of Laudato Si’ is its powerful message on the centrality of ending poverty for healing the wider crises of climate change and environmental degradation.
‘Even it up’ for a sharing society
Blog / 1st July 2015A call for sharing the world’s resources is being heard almost everywhere today, and is consistently at the heart of civil society demands for a better world. But too often, this mutual concern is understood and couched in implicit terms, without acknowledging the urgency of realising a fairer sharing of wealth, power and resources as a solution to humanity’s problems.
Wach auf Amerika, wach auf!
Article / 1st July 2015Es ist an der Zeit, dass Amerika seine Werte durch eine umfassendere und spirituelle Vision, auf der Grundlage einer gerechten Verteilung der Ressourcen der Welt, eiligst ersetzt.
Božič, sistem in jaz
Article / 22nd June 2015Mi vsi skupaj tvorimo ta sistem, ki ga krivimo za svetovne probleme, kar se zelo jasno pokaže ob božiču, ko v trgovinskih središčih v Jezusovem imenu ropamo svojo krhko Zemljo. Poznamo še kakšen boljši način praznovanja rojstva Kristusa kot združiti se pod zastavo svobode in pravičnosti ter se na mirnih demonstracijah zavzemati za konec lakote in revščine v svetu.
“Multinationales, payez votre part d´impots!!”
Blog / 18th June 2015Campaigning activities are taking place across several continents this week during a global series of actions for tax justice, which aims to increase public pressure so that governments commit to making multinational corporations pay their fair share of taxes.