Rural Inequality vs. Grassroots Land Reform: Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement Turns Forty
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
Rural land concentration compounds inequality and threatens democracy. Through grassroots land reform, this movement offers hope.
We will win economic justice when people power becomes stronger than those driving and benefitting from the status quo.
An advancing labor reform bill could increase overtime pay, expand social security for delivery workers, and strengthen workplace rights.
In the 2000s and 2010s Chileans began resolving the Crisis of Representation through protest, song, and dance. Recent political setbacks do not detract from this.
U.S. and Canadian civil society groups are denouncing their own governments’ efforts, driven by the agribusiness industry, to repeal Mexico’s proposed ban on genetically modified corn.
While claiming to support social and environmental goals, leaders failed to challenge the excessive corporate powers that undermine those objectives.
I’ve lived and studied poverty most of my life. But you don’t have to be an expert to see why it’s spiking after lawmakers let antipoverty programs expire.
"The accumulation of extreme wealth by the world's richest individuals has become an economic, ecological, and human rights disaster."
As with any disaster, the rich and powerful find ways to shield themselves, leaving women, the Black and Brown, the young, the poor, and the elderly to suffer disproportionately.