ECONOMY (labor, globalization, development, economic justice, relief) View front page articles all submitted articles All articles are submitted by smart activists like you. Go here to contribute:  03-09-2010 Sunday August 28, 2005 Comments The economic challenges of the world's 77th richest country - the online game EverQuest. "As a developer, I would love to leave it all as a free market. But people who are new to the game would have nothing, and the big players would have everything." United States | Flat Rock [0] Saturday August 27, 2005 Comments A long piece, covering the abuse of the Capitalist system on the worker, an ideal socio-economic organization, and the principles and essentials that will help us change the current system. United States | Punkerslut [0] Warning: extract() [function.extract]: First argument should be an array in /home/berlin2/public_html/smartactivist/eternal/f_general.add on line 208 Sunday August 21, 2005 Comments National Labor Committee shows videotape of Disney sweatshop where workers suffer through oppressive conditions including extreme heat, long hours and forced, and unpaid overtime. Global | [0] A measure designed to create jobs is instead rewarding the companies that are most adept at stashing overseas profits in tax havens. United States | Washington Post [0] Thursday August 18, 2005 Comments China and India both trying to purchase Canadian oil company in Kazakhstan, a.k.a. the Empire's leftovers. Global | New York Times [0] Credit bureau marketed free credit reports to trick consumers into paying for a credit report monitoring service. United States | Washington Post [0] Tuesday August 16, 2005 Comments Reliant Energy to pay $460 million for manipulating electricity prices and gouging consumers during the fake California energy crisis in 2000 and 2001. United States | Bloomberg [0] CBC wants to hire more people on contract rather than to permanent jobs. Here come the strikes. Canada | canada.com [0] Monday August 15, 2005 Comments The Great American Jobs Scam United States | Guerrilla News Network [0] Saturday August 13, 2005 Comments Government to stop collecting information on women workers, after all someone might realize how fucked over they are in the workplace. United States | Feminist Majority Foundation [0] Friday August 12, 2005 Comments Senior U.S.-appointed Iraqi officials used intermediary companies to hide kickbacks they received from contracts involving unnecessary, overpriced or outdated equipment, wasting a billion dollars. Iraq | Mercury News [0] Unofficial strike by ground staff in support of sacked catering workers throws Heathrow into chaos. United Kingdom | BBC News [0] Wednesday August 10, 2005 Comments USA Today implies that the war in Iraq and tsunami relief share equal responsibility for the 2006 budget deficit. The War in Iraq will cost $76 billion, tsunami relief will cost $0.6 billion. United States | Media Matters for America [0] Even the Treasury Secretary admits that the poor... I mean... "less educated" aren't getting the benefits of economic growth. United States | Washington Post [0] Tuesday August 9, 2005 Comments Housing prices are rising far faster than salaries putting the American dream of owning a home beyond the reach of teachers, firefighters and other community workers. United States | Yahoo! [0] Monday August 8, 2005 Comments South African gold miners launch industry-wide strike to demand higher wages, joining a wave of work stoppages that has included city workers, supermarket clerks, and employees of the national airline. South Africa | Reuters UK [0] Saturday August 6, 2005 Comments Justice Dept allows Sprint and Nextel to merge because consumers, "will continue to have a number of other carriers from which to choose." That number is 3. United States | Seattle Times [0] Tuesday August 2, 2005 Comments China drops it bid to purchase American oil company because of "political opposition" in the U.S. which, like totally wants free-trade and stuff, but, like, this is, um, different or something. China | Bloomberg [0] Monday August 1, 2005 Comments The energy bill stands on the cusp of providing the nuclear industry and the oil industry, among others, with the sweetest deal that energy executives have seen in the last 50 years. United States | TomPaine.com [0] Sunday July 31, 2005 Comments Energy bill gives $3 billion to oil and gas companies already raking in enormous profits because of high gas prices -- and that's before Republicans snuck in billions more. United States | TomPaine.com [0] CAFTA passed, sort of: "legislators had actually voted to defeat CAFTA, 180 to 175. But in an in an unusual move..." United States | Democracy Now! [0] Saturday July 30, 2005 Comments Third Union Is Leaving AFL-CIO -- United Food and Commercial Workers United States | New York Times [0] Friday July 29, 2005 Comments CAFTA passes both chambers of Congress clearing the way to screw over workers in the US and most of Central America. Global | New Standard [0] Wednesday July 27, 2005 Comments The Service Employees and Teamsters Unions are leaving the AFL-CIO. Maybe now Big Labor will wake up. United States | New Standard [0] Tuesday July 26, 2005 Comments Will the AFL-CIO Split? A Debate on the Future of Organized Labor United States | Democracy Now! [0] Monday July 25, 2005 Comments Four Unions to boycott AFL-CIO's annual meeting in a first step toward one of the biggest splits in the organized labor movement in 70 years. United States | Bloomberg [0] Sunday July 24, 2005 Comments China's disconnecting the yuan from the dollar will, "start of a process that will turn the world economy upside down - or, more accurately, right side up." China | New York Times [0] Bush making his mom promote the dismantling of social security. Like she's really on a fixed income, anyway. United States | Business Week [0] New York sues Sprint, Nextel, T-Mobile for misleading ads, "You can't promise a great deal in the headline and hide the true costs in the fine print." United States | Reuters [0] Maker of Kleenex and Huggies to cut 6,000 jobs. Those leaving will need a lot of tissues and those staying will be shitting their pants. Conspiracy?!?! United States | BBC News [0]