U.S. Politics in Real Time · @uspolitics
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Mustrideorski · @Mustrideorski
105 followers · 414 posts · Server urbanists.social

ep. w/Stacey Mitchell, Exec.Director., @ilsr speaks about lot more than just . She speaks of getting under control. "We need local governments to be responsive to the people, breaking up, pushing back & downsizing power of corporations & building up local businesses, enterprises, organizations & institutions that local people have control over. The building blocks of are at the local level."
open.spotify.com/episode/6urqs

#strongtowns #dollarstores #corporatepower #democracy

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AB · @lash
97 followers · 565 posts · Server social.coop

"At a 1957 conference in San Francisco, the Deutsche Bank’s Herman Abs proposed what was described by Time magazine as a new “capitalist Magna Carta” to protect private interests against rebellious peoples, independence movements and new governments that could try to nationalise or redistribute resources. He wasn’t the only European involved."

novaramedia.com/2023/05/24/the

#corporations #corporatepower #capitalism

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FAIR · @FAIR
1880 followers · 498 posts · Server mastodon.world

Chris Lehmann on Debt Ceiling Myths, Kyle Wiens on Right to Repair’s Moment

Republican brinkmanship could devastate millions of people—along with the harm to public understanding of what's actually going on.

fair.org/home/chris-lehmann-on

#budget #corporatepower #debt

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Lynette · @Lynessence
418 followers · 2417 posts · Server oceanplayground.social
ManyRoads :coffeecup: · @ManyRoads
203 followers · 2098 posts · Server mstdn.social
FAIR · @FAIR
1810 followers · 296 posts · Server mastodon.world

‘Everyone Has a Right to Electricity and Heat’

"If just 12 utilities took 1% of their dividends that they paid out to shareholders...that could have prevented disconnections."

fair.org/home/everyone-has-a-r

#corporatepower #energy #inequality

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Prof Jem Bendell · @jembendell
202 followers · 161 posts · Server social.coop

walked out of his hotel in Soho to observe the protests & discovered the people were not far right supporters, as the media had told him, but all kinds of ordinary people, including lefties & liberals.

youtu.be/uMdOesJo4h8

#TimRobbins #loveandrage #corporatepower

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Bob Payne · @rjpayne
134 followers · 231 posts · Server mastodon.social
DT Cochrane · @DTCochrane
47 followers · 55 posts · Server mastodon.social

I study .

It is a topic largely overlooked by and .

Why? Because, theoretically, it doesn’t exist.

#corporatepower #orthodoxeconomics #economists

Last updated 2 years ago

XR Berlin · @XRBerlin
818 followers · 10396 posts · Server todon.nl

RT @ShaleMustFall@twitter.com

🐋Berlin 4.2.🐋Join us to demand an end of in Perú, Argentina, South Africa, everywhere! Stop from destroying livelihoods, expropriating Indigenous and local communities and entrenching global inequalities!

🐦🔗: twitter.com/ShaleMustFall/stat

#RepsolHazteCargo #frackoff #oceanazo #corporatepower #fossilcolonialism

Last updated 3 years ago