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    • Editor's Pick
    • 39 Ratings
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    “No Poor Man Ever Gave Me A Job”

    DECEMBER 16, 2011 3:08PM

    By Bob Simpson


    Topics: business, politics, global economy, farm workers, housekeeping, sweatshops, poor people, poverty

    • 9 Ratings
    • 1066 Views
    • 12 Comments
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    OCCUPY WALL STREET: the next step

    NOVEMBER 19, 2011 6:51AM

    By old new lefty


    Topics: political action, milton freidman, ayn rand, the 99%, the 1%, nazis, washington dc, the 1880s, sweatshops, haymarket riot, financial panics, diptheria, european riots, greece, move on, revolutionaries, idealists, anarachists, homeless people, class differences, mitosis, samantha bee, the daily show, occupy america, economy, zuccotti park, belief/religion, news, politics

    • 4 Ratings
    • 723 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    Walmart Watch

    JANUARY 25, 2013 10:51AM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: by clarence darrow, industrial conspiracies, wal-mart workers discrimination suit, wal-mart worker protests, wal-mart mexican bribery case, bangladesh garment manufacturing fire, sweatshops, planned obsolescence, wal-mart, politics, news, economy, business

    • 7 Ratings
    • 1407 Views
    • 6 Comments
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    The Age of the Disposable Worker

    DECEMBER 14, 2010 11:56AM

    By Brokenwing


    Topics: economy, business, work, temporary agencies, unions, exploitation, sweatshops

    • 2 Ratings
    • 1230 Views
    • 5 Comments
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    The Bootstrap Myth

    MARCH 12, 2011 12:53AM

    By liberaldose


    Topics: capitalism, economics, enlightenment, rousseau, housing market, real estate bubble, fed, greenspan, outsourcing, privatizing, walmart, sweatshops, pollution, unions, social contract, blackwater, halliburton, externalities, gandhi, public schools, governor scott walker, wisconsin, mixed economy, infrastructure, education, liberals, conservatism, global competitiveness, common good, private enterprise, government contracts, r&d, predatory capitalism, economics, free enterprise, subsidies, politics, budget

    • Editor's Pick
    • 2 Ratings
    • 1075 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    No advertising or lobbying expenses without representation

    MAY 16, 2012 10:36AM

    By zacherydtaylor


    Topics: alternative media, susan linn, consuming kids, roy fox, harvesting minds, tobacco, gambling, oligarchies, sweatshops, propaganda, citizens united, buckley v. valeo, free speech, ballot questions, lobbying, advertising, mass media, education, television, politics, economy, business, books

    • 2 Ratings
    • 4721 Views
    • 4 Comments
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    Fulfilling Leclerc imperative:debt, free trade, wage slavery

    AUGUST 25, 2009 2:52PM

    By Ezili Danto


    Topics: monetary system, hlln, ezili danto, sweatshops, haiti, bill clinton

    • 1 Ratings
    • 400 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    JOHN BOEHNER: REPUBLICAN PARTY IS MADE IN CHINA

    JULY 13, 2012 1:10PM

    By Gordon Hilgers


    Topics: gordon hilgers, americans for tax reform, grover norquist, freedomworks, dick armey, american crossroads, crossroads gps, karl rove, tea party express, tea party nation, tea party, united states, outsourcing, export production zones, sweatshops, finance, capitalism, peoples liberation army, people's republic of china, china, polo, ralph lauren, 2012 olympic games, u s olympic committee, u s senate, u s house of representatives, u s congress, nancy pelosi, harry reid, john boehner

    • 0 Ratings
    • 291 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Randy New Man

    APRIL 8, 2011 8:54PM

    By liberaldose


    Topics: ayn rand, atlas shrugged, paul ryan, mythology, electing judges, capitalism, economics, enlightenment, rousseau, housing market, real estate bubble, fed, greenspan, outsourcing, privatizing, walmart, sweatshops, pollution, unions, social contract, blackwater, halliburton, externalities, gandhi, public schools, governor scott walker, wisconsin, mixed economy, infrastructure, education, liberals, conservatism, global competitiveness, common good, private enterprise, government contracts, r&d, predatory capitalism, economics, free enterprise, subsidies, politics, budget

    • 1 Ratings
    • 4403 Views
    • 2 Comments
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    Healthcare reform also requires food system reform

    SEPTEMBER 12, 2009 3:37PM

    By Ezili Danto


    Topics: health care reform, food system reform, farm subsidies, sweatshops, free trade

    • 1 Ratings
    • 304 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Regardless of Economic Plan America Can’t Compete

    APRIL 14, 2012 5:10PM

    By Omnipotent Poobah


    Topics: workplace safety, working conditions, workers, war on the wealthy, war on the middle class, war on everyone, us economy, united we stand divided we fall, uganda, third world, tax, sweatshops, skills, safety, rupee, republicans, recession, politics, offshoring, made in japan, korea, jobs, japan, india, health, factories, exporting jobs, economics, economic holocaust, deregulation, democrats, costs, competition, china, america cant compete, abolish regulations

    • 1 Ratings
    • 151 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    banktransferlujah!! Money transfer action day!, environment

    NOVEMBER 3, 2011 12:50PM

    By Reverend Billy Talen


    Topics: wwjb, world, william, what would jesus buy, theatre, theater, the prophet, talen, sweatshops, stop shopping, spirituality, spiritual, shopping, shopocalypse, reverend billy, reverend, religion, recession, pulpit, preaching, power, politics, philosophy, performance, peace, over-consumption, oil, new york city, mud, monologue, monoculture, materialism, mass consumerism, life, jehovah, humor, human, hollywood, healing, healer, gospel, globalization, global warming, gas, floods, first amendment, fires, faith, extinction, exorcism, environment, energy, economy, ecology, earthalujah, earthquake, earth, droughts, drama, debt, death, culturejamming, culturejam, culture, credit card, consumerism, conservation, congregation, commercialization, comedy, coal, climate change, church of earthalujah, church of stop shopping, church, christmas, christ, choir, buy nothing day, black friday, billy, bill talen, big-box culture, belief, art, apocalypse, anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, america, activist, activism

    • 3 Ratings
    • 8423 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Disaster Capitalism in Haiti, New Orleans, Congo & Pakistan

    NOVEMBER 11, 2010 4:13PM

    By Ezili Danto


    Topics: sweatshops, bill clinton, disaster capitalism, false benevolence, haiti, congo, pakistan, new orleans

    • 1 Ratings
    • 3686 Views
    • 1 Comments
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    Haiti's founding father-women who influenced him, his legacy

    SEPTEMBER 20, 2009 10:07PM

    By Ezili Danto


    Topics: fair trade, free trade, sweatshops, neocolonialsm, haitian lawyers leadership network, hlln, ezili danto, history, haiti, jean jacques dessalines

    • 1 Ratings
    • 507 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Swapping Haiti lives: Interview on US Haiti Exploits

    JULY 26, 2012 11:17AM

    By Ezili Danto


    Topics: ezili dantò, us imperialism, disaster capitalism, obama, bill clinton, hillary clinton, new york times, sweatshops, haiti earthquake, false ngo charity, haiti oil, haiti gold, newmont mining, vcs mining

    • 0 Ratings
    • 140 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    London & NY - 99% Across the Water

    NOVEMBER 16, 2011 10:37AM

    By Reverend Billy Talen


    Topics: wwjb, world, william, what would jesus buy, theatre, theater, the prophet, talen, sweatshops, stop shopping, spirituality, spiritual, shopping, shopocalypse, reverend billy, reverend, religion, recession, pulpit, preaching, power, politics, philosophy, performance, peace, over-consumption, oil, new york city, mud, monologue, monoculture, materialism, mass consumerism, life, jehovah, humor, human, hollywood, healing, healer, gospel, globalization, global warming, gas, floods, first amendment, fires, faith, extinction, exorcism, environment, energy, economy, ecology, earthalujah, earthquake, earth, droughts, drama, debt, death, culturejamming, culturejam, culture, credit card, consumerism, conservation, congregation, commercialization, comedy, coal, climate change, church of earthalujah, church of stop shopping, church, christmas, christ, choir, buy nothing day, black friday, billy, bill talen, big-box culture, belief, art, apocalypse, anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, america, activist, activism

    • 0 Ratings
    • 179 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Reverend Billy - CONNECTING THE OCCUPATIONS

    NOVEMBER 10, 2011 12:55PM

    By Reverend Billy Talen


    Topics: wwjb, world, william, what would jesus buy, theatre, theater, the prophet, talen, sweatshops, stop shopping, spirituality, spiritual, shopping, shopocalypse, reverend billy, reverend, religion, recession, pulpit, preaching, power, politics, philosophy, performance, peace, over-consumption, oil, new york city, mud, monologue, monoculture, materialism, mass consumerism, life, jehovah, humor, human, hollywood, healing, healer, gospel, globalization, global warming, gas, floods, first amendment, fires, faith, extinction, exorcism, environment, energy, economy, ecology, earthalujah, earthquake, earth, droughts, drama, debt, death, culturejamming, culturejam, culture, credit card, consumerism, conservation, congregation, commercialization, comedy, coal, climate change, church of earthalujah, church of stop shopping, church, christmas, christ, choir, buy nothing day, black friday, billy, bill talen, big-box culture, belief, art, apocalypse, anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, america, activist, activism

    • 0 Ratings
    • 177 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    Faith, Faithlessness, and the Occupation in Between

    NOVEMBER 7, 2011 12:16PM

    By Reverend Billy Talen


    Topics: wwjb, world, william, what would jesus buy, theatre, theater, the prophet, talen, sweatshops, stop shopping, spirituality, spiritual, shopping, shopocalypse, reverend billy, reverend, religion, recession, pulpit, preaching, power, politics, philosophy, performance, peace, over-consumption, oil, new york city, mud, monologue, monoculture, materialism, mass consumerism, life, jehovah, humor, human, hollywood, healing, healer, gospel, globalization, global warming, gas, floods, first amendment, fires, faith, extinction, exorcism, environment, energy, economy, ecology, earthalujah, earthquake, earth, droughts, drama, debt, death, culturejamming, culturejam, culture, credit card, consumerism, conservation, congregation, commercialization, comedy, coal, climate change, church of earthalujah, church of stop shopping, church, christmas, christ, choir, buy nothing day, black friday, billy, bill talen, big-box culture, belief, art, apocalypse, anti-corporate, anti-consumerism, america, activist, activism

    • 0 Ratings
    • 125 Views
    • 0 Comments
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    The Earth-Buster Sale

    DECEMBER 9, 2010 11:25PM

    By Reverend Billy Talen


    Topics: children, global warming, peace, war, sweatshops, wall street, free-market, what would jesus buy?, old shops, farmer’s markets, revolution, reverend billy and the church of stop life after shopping, reverend billy talen, consumerism, market, obama, oil, holidays, christmas, buy nothing day, black friday

    • 0 Ratings
    • 138 Views
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    The Facts Vs. The Earth

    JULY 13, 2010 4:27PM

    By Reverend Billy Talen


    Topics: appalachia, sweatshops, mountaintop removal, politics, economy, environment, consumerism

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