From 1947 to 1973, Latin America experienced a 70% rise in real wages per capita. States had the capacity to both distribute wealth and sustain growth. They showed no need to subscribe wholesale to the capitalism that dominated the American economic scene
Between the Reagan and Clinton administrations (1980 to 1998), Latin America’s average per capita income did not increase at all.
Looking at Latin America’s poverty from the 1960s on evinces something more: about 10% of the region’s denizens were destitute by today’s subsistence standards of less than 2$ a day; however, by 1996, a third of Latin America was poor by the same standards. After just two decades of changes in international trade, ownership and sundry laws, 165 million Latin Americans were impoverished. Unfortunately, by 2005, regional poverty had increased from its 1996 levels, numbering 220 million poor.http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/12/latin-america-and-the-us-techno-empire/
The owners of La Lot restaurant in downtown Seattle didn’t last long. Hien, Jeff, and SeaSol are proud to announce that, as of September 1st, La Lot management agreed to meet all of the demands set forth at the start of the strike! This means announcing a policy whereby all tips are distributed to workers,…
Standing Against Foreclosure & Eviction WEEKLY NEWSLETTER September 20, 2014 HOUSING IS A HUMAN RIGHT! Join us every Tuesday for SAFE’s weekly solidarity meeting! **New Location** Where: 5623 Rainier Avenue South Seattle, WA 98118 –On Rainier Ave S & S Orcas St.– Click Here For Area Map When: 7pm , join us at…
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September 13,2014
Some truckers at the Port of Seattle do not have access to bathrooms. In the case of the main port-provided truck lot, a single HoneyBucket [port-a-potty] was delivered in an attempt to quiet truckers who spoke out against the lack of access to a basic necessity. However, many people have pointed out that the HoneyBucket has not solved anything.
From Cascadia Watch CASTLE ROCK, OCCUPIED COWLITZ TERRITORY – September 3, 2014 On May 18, 1980, Mt. St. Helens, or Lawetlat’la, erupted with the force of a hydrogen bomb. A cubic mile of ash and debris turned 230 square miles of land into a moonscape. The Toutle River was filled with boiling mud along its entire…
EVERETT, OCCUPIED SNOHOMISH TERRITORY — September 2, 2014 Five people, one of them sitting 18-feet high on a tripod, have blocked coal and oil traffic at the BNSF Rail Yard in Everett for about six hours this morning and afternoon. The group is demanding an immediate halt to all fossil fuel shipments through the Northwest,…
1. An informative article by Kevin Carson on Kurdish communalism as influenced by Murray Bookchin -
http://www.counterpunch.org/2014/09/01/obama-wants-to-defeat-isis-but-not-that-badly/2.A report on the situation in Western Kurdistan by an eye witness
http://www.anarkismo.net/article/27301
