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Fair trade coffee
Publish Date: December 21, 2011Summary: This workshop teaches the important impact of fair trade coffee Fair-trade-coffee-002.jpgThis fantastic workshop created by Oxfam Canada and the Vancouver Fair...
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Charity vs. Justice: Can the charity industry save us from capitalism?
Segment one takes a look at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, the global leader in philanthrocapitalism, with People's Health Radio contributors Martha Roberts and Rohith Bhargavan. The second...
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Needs No Introduction: Prof. Saskia Sassen on globalization
In this lecture, Columbia University professor Saskia Sassen discusses the concept of the diminishing importance of national borders and the increasing dominance of something she calls the "transversal...
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'Blue Dragon' explores globalization and Canadian culture
February 22, 2012Robert Lepage's enchanting play "Blue Dragon" was performed at the Royal Alexandra Theatre in Toronto from January 10 to February 19. Lepage is one of the world's greatest experimental...
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Moving on up: Gentrification in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
Friday, February 24, 2012 Plotting new urban developments on a map of Vancouver's Downtown Eastside and walking along the now unfamiliar streets reveals gentrification for what it is: a form of...
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The roles of Greece and Israel in western civilization
February 24, 2012I'm writing while on what I think of as my cradles of western civilization tour. It consists of Greece and Israel. My travelling companion (to echo Paul Simon on his way to Graceland)...
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What is the post-colonial state?
May 2, 2012City Hassan1.jpgThe rise of new regions of power in recent decades has provoked much discussion of understanding the post-colonial state. While the global influence of the U.S. and the...
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Canada: Land of mines and banks
July 4, 2012sudbury.jpgIt's membership time. Cultivate Canada's media. Support rabble.ca. Become a member.Just in time for Canada Day, the Globe and Mail's Report on Business issued its annual Top 1000...
View ArticleAn idiot's persistence: Asinine adventures of the Harper Conservatives
"Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak." -- Marcus Tullius Ciceroread more
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Reforming global governance: A multipolar world?
July 25, 2012A sheet used in the construction of globes. Photo: Crossett Library Bennington College/FlickrHow do we reform the international political system? One new radical solution that has emerged...
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Cash Cab, globalization and expanding the welfare state
December 7, 2012Photo: henry…/FlickrChange the conversation, support rabble.ca today.Recently I asked some university students, hesitantly, if they watch Cash Cab. Hesitantly, since I know they don't...
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Global capitalism and David McNally's monsters
January 16, 2013monsters.jpgChange the conversation, support rabble.ca today.One of the many carnivalesque aspects of consumer society is the popular fascination -- and fashion -- oriented around...
View ArticleLabour Responses to Globalization: Alternative Forms of Organization
March 7, 2013 - 7:00pm Annual Larry Sefton Memorial Lecture: Labour Responses to Globalization: Alternative Forms of Organization. This year's lecture will feature a panel discussion. This year's...
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The Globalization Trilogy
Micha Peled has produced three connected films that put a human face on complex issues that result from global economic forces. Store Wars: When Wal-Mart Comes to Town focuses on consumerism in the...
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Pedagogy in an age of disorder
June 19, 2013Photo: Adan Garcia/flickr Please support our coverage of democratic movements and become a supporting member of rabble.ca. There are, I propose, three types of students. A student is...
View ArticleUnderstanding globalization
October 19, 2013 - 7:00pm All events to take place at Beit Zatoun, 612 Markham St. Toronto, (just south of Bloor, just west of Bathurst). * Sam Gindin, co-author with Leo Panitch of The Making of...
View ArticleFrom the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization: Kari...
The muchrespected progressive economist, and my long-time friend and intellectual soulmate, Kari Polanyi-Levitt, having just turned 90, has published a book of no less than 16 scholarly articles, all...
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OECD Skills Outlook 2013: The skills needed for the 21st century
Wednesday, October 30, 2013Q. What skills are required in order to be employed and receive relatively high wages in the 21st century? A. You mean, other than blindly furious industriousness, continuous...
View ArticleActivist Toolkit roundup: Impacts of globalization
What do you think of when you hear the word globalization? I tend to think about the new forms of communication dominating a world with fewer and fewer boundaries and borders. My Skype icon and ability...
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Today is Intercontinental Day of Action Against Corporate Globalization --...
This week, rabble's weekly Activist Toolkit blog features campaigns and tools to counteract the consequences of corporate globalization and advocate for those who are negatively affected.Activist...
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