Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - October 8, 2015
Elections

Diemer, Ulli (editor); Richwood, Darien Yawching (production)
http://www.connexions.org/Media/CXNL-2015-10-08.htm

Publisher:  connexions
Date Written:  08/10/2015
Year Published:  2015  
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Resource Type:  Serial Publication (Periodical)
Cx Number:  CX17943

Elections are the topic of the week, with items related to the October 19 Canadian federal election, and also to broader issues of parliamentary democracy, voting and whether voting can bring about change, and the neo-liberal attack on democracy. Articles look at the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, the financial takeovers of Ukraine and Greece, and debt bondage. Also: a discussion of James Hansen's fossil fuel exit strategy, and a critique of Alinsky-style organizing.

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Contents:

Introduction: Elections, Democracy and anti-Democracy
Topic of the Week: Elections
What Is the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP)?
Parasites in the Body Economic: The Disasters of Neoliberalism
A Fossil Fuel Exit Program
The new colonialism: Greece and Ukraine
Beyond the Cliches about Radicalisation
Saudi Royal Family: Protecting VIPs, While Letting Ordinary Pilgrims Die
The Alinsky Method: a Critique
Freedom Summer, 1964
The Measure of a Revolutionary: Remembering Eugene V. Debs
Keys, comb and a plant: Palestinians tell of their past through cherished belongings
The past belongs to everyone: British Library calls on public to help piece together history
Raya Dunayevskaya Archives
Website of the Week: The Tyee
Book of the Week: Democracy Against Capitalism
Film of the Week: The Price We Pay
Song of the week: Stealin’ All My Dreams

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