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In a CNN article on “How to keep your job” Tyler Cowen (of Marginal Revolution fame) recommends that you approach your boss and preemptively volunteer yourself for a wage cut. So, even as money keeps flowing to the top, mass media outlets are now recommending that workers volunteer themselves for further wage cuts, all under the name [...]
Squatter City has a post up describing one Miami group’s success in solving two not-unrelated problems: homelessness and foreclosure.
“A brilliant program from a Miami group vets homeless families and then moves them into foreclosed housing. The program is, at least technically, illegal. But no arrests have been made, and it seems a clearheaded way to [...]
Location: The Change You Want To See, Brooklyn, NY
Address: 84 Havemeyer Street, Storefront, Brooklyn, NY
Date: 17 December 2008 @ 7.30 PM - 10.30 PM
Over the past two years, Web 2.0 technologies have matured and so have the methods activist use to employ them. In 2008, activists from around the world used Web 2.0 to take [...]
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