Economics & Trade
I would measure economic growth by seeing, how much food are people eating, how much clean water do they have in their rivers and their wells, how much clothing do they have access to, how much education and health services are they provided as public systems?
-Vandana Shiva
Headlines
- 07/01/09 - Degrading Environment Not So Good for the Economy
- 06/30/09 - The Economy Can't Improve Unless We Put People Back to Work
- 06/30/09 - Campaign to Fair Trade the White House Unseals Invitation to Michelle Obama
- 06/29/09 - Colombia Support Network Statement on President Uribe's Visit to Washington
- 06/28/09 - Bad Economy Hurting Monsanto Just Like Everybody Else?
- 06/28/09 - Foreclosure Fiasco Continues
- 06/23/09 - Fair Expectations: Rainforest Alliance v. Fairtrade
- 06/23/09 - On Web and iPhone, a Tool to Aid Careful Shopping
- 06/23/09 - Using the Depression Era Actions as Models for Activism and Organizing Now
- 06/22/09 - Panama's Ngöbe Indians Win Major Victory at Inter-American Commission on Human Rights
- 06/18/09 - Stand Up for Rural America While You Still Can
- 06/17/09 - Unions and Migrant Workers Coalesce from Coast to Coast
- 06/16/09 - Out of the Ashes of GM: the Phoenix of Renewable Energy
- 06/16/09 - Indigenous Peoples’ Global Fight with Big Business
- 06/11/09 - Why Buy Organic and Fair Trade Baby Food?
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The GNA Platform
Press the politicians
to support:
- Progressive tax policies that create fairness for low-income and middle class communities, including a repeal of the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy and an increase in earned income tax credits for the poor.
- Reducing the federal debt while adequately funding non-military domestic programs.
- Ending corporate welfare, closing corporate tax loopholes, increasing the number of IRS auditors focused on corporations, and eliminating offshore tax shelters.
- A federal micro tax of .1% on the purchase of stocks, bonds, securities & currency, coupled with a federal income tax rate where the first $100,000 of income was tax-free.
- Substantial taxation increases on large corporations and the richest 1% of Americans (with yearly incomes averaging $1.3 million) to pay for universal health care, subsidized childcare, & free tuition for public colleges and universities.
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