The Case for Fossil-Fuel Divestment On the road with the new generation of college activists fighting for the environment by: Bill McKibben, RollingStone, Feb. 22, 2013 http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/the-case-for-fossil-fuel-divestment-20130222?print=true It’s obvious how this should end. You’ve got the richest industry on earth, fossil fuel, up against some college kids, some professors, a few …
Jamie Johnson’s “One Percent”
This 80-minute documentary focuses on the growing “wealth gap” in America, as seen through the eyes of filmmaker Jamie Johnson, a 27-year-old heir to the Johnson & Johnson pharmaceutical fortune. Johnson, who cut his film teeth at NYU and made the Emmy®-nominated 2003 HBO documentary Born Rich, here sets his …
Wall Street’s Third Party
We at Ethical Markets share the American Prospect’s warning about this group, Americans Elect, which is parading as a democratic new form of digital democracy, but in reality is backed by secretive high-rollers in finance who have raise over $22 million to push their “faux progressive” platform. Hazel Henderson, Editor …
NPR Shuffles by Wall Street Protests
Updated 9/26 4:20 p.m. NPR hasn’t aired a story on the “Occupy Wall Street” protest — now entering its second week — but several of you aired your concerns about the lack of coverage, and Ralph Nader called to say NPR is ignoring the left. “You’ll cover the Tea Party, …
Book Review by Hazel Henderson: Treasure Islands and Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!
Treasure Islands: Uncovering the Damage of Offshore Banking and Tax Havens, by Nicholas Shaxson, Palgrave Macmillan, NYC 2011 Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us! by Ralph Nader, Seven Stories Press, NYC 2009 In Treasure Islands, author Nicholas Shaxson digs deeper than any previous research on the size and shape of global finance and …