Posted by Kirsten Moller in Community Rights, Featured, For Our Members, Global Exchange News & Events, Human Rights, Mexico, Reality Tours on 1st August, 2012 | No Comments
Our GEMS (Global Exchange Monthly Sustainers) drive is heating up, and we’re inching closer to our end of August goal to reach the 100 new GEMS mark. Now through end of August, all new GEMS will receive the brand new report “Meet the Fire Sector: How Wall Street is Burning our Democracy.”
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Featured, Global Exchange News & Events, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy on 30th July, 2012 | No Comments
Wall Street has spent $1,331 dollars every minute since 2006 to buy political influence. Our nonpartisan report tracks this investment in political power, and also contains a legislative scorecard making Congressional votes, campaign contributions, and calculates an ‘industry-loyalty rate’… the percentage that legislator’s votes matched Wall Street’s lobby.
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Community Rights, End Dirty Energy, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Human Rights, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy, People Power, Not Corporate Power, Stop Funding War on 17th July, 2012 | No Comments
Three speakers from Code Pink, Oil Change International, and Public Citizen joined Global Exchange in Washington DC, to compare notes on how undue corporate influence negatively impacts the ability of these groups to carry out their positive missions, and share inspiration about how people are standing up to protect and reclaim democracy.
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Building Positive Alternatives, Community Rights, End Dirty Energy, Featured, Human Rights, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power, World News & Events on 27th June, 2012 | 2 Comments
This July 3-4, choose ONE THING you DON’T LIKE and #DeclareIndependence from it!
I chose to #DeclareIndependence from rule by Wall Street. What about you?
Just post on Facebook or Twitter. It takes 30 seconds and makes Independence Day about more than fireworks or a car sale.
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Community Rights, End Dirty Energy, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 18th June, 2012 | 2 Comments
What can you #DeclareIndependence from on July 4th?
Sign up today to participate and let us know what you will #DeclareIndependence from this Fourth of July!
Get ready to share via Facebook, Twitter, and on the ground.
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Featured, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 12th June, 2012 | No Comments
The largest campaign contributions to Congressional candidates of both parties consistently come from the Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate industry (the FIRE sector, which includes big banks). This is just one example of many about why it’s important to add your voice to this petition telling Wall Street that “our democracy is NOT for sale!”
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Building Positive Alternatives, Global Exchange Community, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy on 31st May, 2012 | 1 Comment
Ben & Jerry’s workers know a thing or two about putting dough in ice cream. But this time, they are calling for something different: to get the dough out of politics. Watch this video to see for yourself.
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Posted by Kylie Nealis in Community Rights, Global Exchange News & Events, World News & Events on 1st November, 2011 | No Comments
We were asked to speak and share stories from the frontlines of the grassroots movement for community and nature’s rights. But within me was also a keen desire to be a part of the conversation happening on Wall Street that has inspired Occupy Everywhere: Will history remember Zuccotti Park as a landmark location and this a defining moment we took an evolutionary step forward for democracy and system change?
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Posted by Corey Hill in Community Rights on 13th October, 2011 | No Comments
This guest blog was written by Debra Weistar, co-director of Finding the Good Traveling Semester Program. “This was the most amazing day ever. I learned more today than in all the years of my education.” –Wyatt Maniarrez, Oct. 6, 2011, after attending a court hearing between the Western Shoshone and the Bureau of Land Management »
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Posted by Beth Garriott in Global Exchange News & Events on 13th July, 2011 | 3 Comments
On July 9, 2011, South Sudan gained independence from Sudan after an overwhelming majority of South Sudanese voted to secede and become Africa’s newest country. Beth Garriott, Global Exchange’s Gifts & Grants Officer who lived in South Sudan from 2006-2007, shares her thoughts about South Sudan’s independence.
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