Posted by Carleen Pickard in Featured, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, People Power, Not Corporate Power, World News & Events on 19th June, 2012 | 1 Comment
The first “Most Wanted” list appeared shortly after the Battle in Seattle and was intended to check the power of corporations—and provide a tool for citizens around the world to do it. The 2012 “Most Wanted” list is updated to include some of the world’s worst (and current) corporate abusers including Bank of America, Chevron, Monsanto, Pacific Rim and TransCanada. See all the corporations that made the list and why, plus who’s doing something about it.
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Posted by Hillary V Lehr in Featured, Occupy Our Elections...Elect Democracy, People Power, Not Corporate Power on 8th May, 2012 | 3 Comments
How do we create a system where it actually matters who you vote for?
We need to Occupy Our Elections in order to approach having the real ability to Elect Democracy. We should engage with and impact elections by providing systemic analysis and exposing the impact of big bank campaign contributions, corporate lobbying, and general ALEC-type corruption and collusion. Meanwhile, we can also simultaneously be creating new methods of meeting the needs of the 99%. It’s time to show the 1% what real democracy actually looks like.
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Posted by Admin in Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Guest Posts, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, World News & Events on 30th April, 2012 | No Comments
The following guest post by Col. Ann Wright (Ret.), a Global Exchange board member, who resigned from the State Department on March 19, 2003 in protest of the invasion of Iraq. Here she breaks down why the pre-trial hearings for alleged Wikileaks whistleblower US Army PFC Bradley Manning hold some lessons for us all.
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Featured, Global Exchange Community, Global Exchange News & Events, Human Rights, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, World News & Events on 25th April, 2012 | No Comments
May 10th is an evening you won’t want to miss! We’ll be shining a spotlight on 2012 Human Rights Award Honoree Annie Leonard and People’s Choice Winner PFC Bradley Manning, and this just in…Bradley Manning’s award will be accepted by special guest…
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Posted by Tex Dworkin in Featured, For Our Members, Global Exchange News & Events, Green Festivals, Human Rights, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights on 9th April, 2012 | 3 Comments
Global Exchange is proud to announce our first ever online auction, in advance of the 10th annual Human Rights Awards – a way for our supporters around the country to support our work by bidding on an amazing collection of items. There are some awesome items up for bid. Here are a few of my favorites:
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Posted by Kirsten Moller in Featured, Peace, Democracy and Human Rights, Stop Funding War on 22nd March, 2012 | 2 Comments
For the past two weeks as we’ve grappled with the horror of the massacre in the Kandahar province, I’ve been dismayed at the focus of the mainstream press. The press seems to be focusing almost entirely on the mind-set of Sgt Bales and the effect of the massacre on US/Afghan relations without much mention of the actual victims who were all Afghan citizens, including nine children.
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Posted by Medea Benjamin in Global Exchange News & Events, Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 21st February, 2012 | No Comments
John Timoney is the controversial former Miami police chief well known for orchestrating brutal crackdowns on protests in Miami and Philadelphia- instances with rampant police abuse, violence, and blatant disregard for freedom of expression. It should be of great concern that the Kingdom of Bahrain has brought Timoney to “reform” Bahrain’s security forces. Here’s how that’s going. (A hint…not well.)
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Posted by Medea Benjamin in Global Exchange News & Events, Stop Funding War, World News & Events on 15th February, 2012 | No Comments
Global Exchange Co-founder Medea Benjamin is in Bahrain right now. Here’s her latest on why it was clear that the government had called out all its forces to stop any protests.
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Posted by Admin in Fair Trade, Featured, For Our Members, Global Exchange News & Events on 21st September, 2011 | No Comments
Get a behind-the-scenes look at why Global Exchange staffers love what they do!
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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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