Topic: Inequality
Viva la #SharingSpring!
Blog / 5th March 2014As the Sharing Spring kicks off, more and more people are participating in localised forms of sharing in response to the failures of government and big business. While this is right and imperative, it is equally vital that citizens call upon their political representatives to integrate the principle of sharing into governmental policies on national and global levels.
The radical implications of ‘internationalising our minds’
Blog / 4th March 2014There has never been such an urgency for adopting an international perspective in relation to the world's most pressing issues, but we are still far away from creating a truly global political platform that can challenge the power of the 0.001%. Hence the implications of internationalising our minds are all-inclusive and profound.
From sharing cities to a sharing world
Blog / 7th February 2014Few could disagree on the beneficial aspects of sharing resources within communities or across municipalities, but can the sharing economy in its current form represent a movement that can challenge unjust power structures and pave the way to a better world?
The sharing economy: a short introduction to its political evolution
Article / 21st January 2014Can the sharing economy movement address the root causes of the world’s converging crises? Unless the sharing of resources is promoted in relation to human rights and concerns for equity, democracy, social justice and sustainability, then such claims are without substantiation – although there are many hopeful signs that the conversation is slowly moving in the right direction.
Economic sharing as a challenge to neoliberal globalisation
Blog / 15th January 2014In the fresh rallying call from civil society for a new future based on sharing, it is interesting to note some old examples of NGO campaigns that call for a more equitable distribution of the world’s resources – such as this Friends of the Earth dialogue from thirteen years ago that recognises how the perennial ethic of sharing is fundamental to redressing the disastrous failure of neoliberal economic policy.
Will 2014 mark the beginning of a second American revolution?
Blog / 6th January 2014Many people at this time of social, political and economic turmoil are voicing the need for a ‘revolution’ in one form or another, with a major focus on all that is wrong in the world’s richest and most powerful country – the United States. Dr Zeki Ergas has taken up this question in a long political essay about the need for a second American revolution to build a better world.
Talkin’ ‘bout a global revolution
Article / 6th January 2014As the global financial crisis now enters its seventh year, it is time to start asking difficult questions about the right priorities for popular protest if we want to realise a truly united voice of the world’s people. There can be no revolution in a truly moral or global sense until the critical needs of the extreme poor are prioritised and upheld, which will require mass mobilisations in the streets like we have never seen before.
Christmas, the system and I
Article / 24th December 2013You and I constitute the very system that we blame for the world’s problems, which is starkly illustrated at Christmas when we rob our fragile earth on the high streets in the name of Jesus. What better way to celebrate the birth of Christ this year than to unite under the banner of freedom and justice, and peacefully demonstrate for an end to hunger and poverty across the world.
Welcome to STWR's new website
News / 10th December 2013We are pleased to announce the launch of STWR’s new website, with a new domain name at sharing.org. In contrast to our old website that provided an archive of material on global justice issues from third party sources, this new site is focused on STWR’s own content and our advocacy for economic sharing in all its forms.
Un dialogo sulla condivisione del cibo
Article / 1st November 2013Se ci interessa mettere fine al perenne crimine della fame nel mezzo dell'abbondanza, non possiamo limitare le nostre azioni al livello del nostro paese o communità. Invece, dobbiamo pensare alla condivisione del cibo in termini globali e soprattutto in relazione alle politiche per mettere fine alla fame.