Agriculture, the service economy, sexual exploitation, manufacturing, construction and domestic work drive today's enslavement around the world.
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Will the Fossil Fuel Industry Finally Be Kicked Out of UN Climate Talks?
As the Bonn climate talks wrap up, a group of developing countries is seeking to remove big polluter lobbyists from UN climate change negotiations – but the proposal is being met with fierce opposition by the U.S., E.U. and other countries with oil interests.
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Wall Street Spends $2.3 Million a Day to Stall Financial Reforms
This election cycle, banks and financial interests put more than $1.4 billion into efforts to elect and influence holders of national political office, according to a new report by Americans for Financial Reform.
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U.S. Cities May Be Taking Banks to Court For the Foreclosure Crisis
From L.A. to Miami to Providence, families who lost their homes weren’t the only ones hurt by the foreclosure crisis – so there’s an argument to be made that they shouldn’t be the only ones who can go after the lenders.
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Trade Groups to Top Corporations: Resist Political Disclosure
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which spent $35 million on the 2014 midterm elections, "has a deep investment in secrecy," says Bruce Freed, president of the Center for Political Accountability.
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Corporate Lobbying Costs Hit $380 Million In 9 Months Pushing Pacific Trade Deal
Washington lobbying by companies and groups involved in global trade boomed in the past nine months.
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The Grand Strategy To Cast Off the Corporate State
This is a strategic memorandum to all movement organizers, social justice organizations, and free citizens disgusted with a corporate state that has systematically extracted our wealth and resources while giving back nothing in return.
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Unlike Corporations and Millionaires, Unions Disclose Midterms Dark Money
Not all dark money is the same – meaning the imbalance of disclosure requirements give corporations and wealthy individuals greater secrecy in elections than organized labor.
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With Just 64 Mega Donors, Dark Money Runs the U.S. Chamber of Commerce
A new report has found that more than half of all 2012 financial contributions to the Chamber came from just a few dozen giant corporate donors.
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88% of Congress On Gas Industry Payroll As Campaign Donations Hit Record Level
A new report shows politicians' campaign cash from the natural gas industry has soared 231% in states that frack, and more than doubled even in the states that don't. Fact: seven of eight U.S. Congress members are on the gas industry's payroll.
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Welcome to Commonomics: Learning to Build Local, Self-Reliant Economies
When it comes to sustainability and localism, people excluded from policymaking often have the most innovative ideas for building strength.
