economy

Rosemary Williams and four other Minnesota women have decided to resist the foreclosure and eviction monster that's destroying our communities.

People from the Twin Cities are helping these women defy eviction, the Hennepin County Sheriff, and the big banks that want to steal their homes. Produced by Twin Cities Indymedia and the Poor Peoples Economic Human Rights Campaign. Here's the 110-second trailer; the full 12 minute video is posted below the fold...
 

110-second trailer URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGZCXaXSbbA
12-minute video URL: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQeNyVjHuvQ

Fuck The Millions, Claw Back the A.I.G. Billions and Arrest Everyone Involved!
 

http://socialistworker.org/2009/02/20/enemies-of-unions

Analysis: Adam Turl

The enemies of unions and the lies they tell
Adam Turl looks at the employers' dirty campaign to block legislation that would make it easier to join a union.

February 20, 2009

WITHIN DAYS of receiving $25 billion in federal bailout money--paid for with your tax dollars--Bank of America hosted a conference call of corporate executives and conservatives to strategize about how to defeat the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA).

Rebuilding the House George Smashed:
Can America Avoid Fascism?

From The Streets of Little Beirut
Feb. 9, 2009
Glen Yeadon

With a collective sigh of relieve Americans watched as the Bush administration ended and a new president take over. Like the first ray of sunshine breaking through the storm clouds the inauguration brought a renewed hope for a better and more prosperous America. Bush was leaving office with the lowest popularity of any president and perhaps as the most despised man on the planet.

Sam Girdin and Leo Panitch teach political economy at York University. The Toronto School for Creativity and Inquiry offers this mp3 audio in the hope that thousands of discussion groups will arise in the world.
Governments run deficits because of drying up of the tax base. Populists brought Greenspan and Paulson before congressional committees.

Crisis is systemic to capitalism and part of its dynamic and evolution. Capitalism has developed with contradictions.

International Workshop to discuss global financial crisis will happen December the 6th to the 11th

How the international financial crisis will affect the peoples of the world and the different ways to overcome it are the subjects of the international seminar "Crisis: Truths and Directions", which will be held in Curitiba, Paraná state, Brazil.

International seminar to discuss how to exit the financial crisis announced

Brazilian Paraná States’ governor Roberto Requião announced, Sunday (9) night in the auditorium of RTVE (Paraná State’s Public TV), that the State Government will sponsor a world seminar at Curitiba, to discuss the economic crisis.

The economist Carlos Lessa, former rector of the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and former president of BNDES – National Bank to Economic and Social Development, proposes control of exchange as the primary measure for Brazil overcome the economic worldwide crisis, responsible for bankruptcy of several banks and even nations such as Iceland and Russia, which are at the verge of a moratorium.

Philippine social movements hit G-20 summit’s exclusivity, call for a new and democratic world order

Manila, Philippines – A thousand protesters marched to the United States Embassy today to denounce the formal opening of the G-20 summit called by US President George W. Bush in Washington D.C to supposedly resolve the ongoing global financial crisis. The big demonstration, which is part of the Global Day of Action against the G-20 Summit, branded the gathering as an “elite jamboree” that has the sole objective of “resurrecting a dead and flawed development paradigm.”