Friends of the Earth’s blog is a staff-run blog that provides policy analysis, insight and commentary about the environment and other progressive issues, advances our campaigns, and builds momentum for a healthy and just world.
Dec. 21, 2012 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein
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Blog,
Economics for the Earth
/ Tags: Climate change, Climate finance, Earth budget, Karen orenstein, Tax, Wall street
Robin Hood, a champion of ordinary people, made a stop in Washington, D.C. this week -- to put his hat in the ring to replace outgoing U.S. Treasury Sectary Tim Geithner, a champion of Wall Street. Mr. Hood is running on a platform of taxing Wall ...
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Nov. 21, 2011 / Posted by: Erich Pica
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Advocacy,
Blog
/ Tags: Erich pica, Keystone xl, Wall street
Lately we’ve all been hearing a lot about Occupy Wall Street (or Occupy Oakland, DC, San Francisco, and many places in between). Many are calling it the Tea Party of the Left, with its focus on unemployment, corporate greed and crony capital...
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Jun. 15, 2011 / Posted by: Karen Orenstein
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Blog,
Economics for the Earth
/ Tags: Karen orenstein, Tax, Wall street
This blog post is one of a series of updates from Friends of the Earth representatives at the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change in Bonn, Germany.
By Asad Rehman, Friends of the Earth England, Wales and Northern Ireland
June 1...
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Feb. 22, 2011 / Posted by: Michelle Chan
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Blog,
Economics for the Earth
/ Tags: Michelle chan, Tax, Wall street
Just imagine. Nearly $1.5 trillion changes hands on international currency exchange markets each day, almost all of it through untaxed transactions made by wealthy speculators.
What if we put even a tiny fraction of that money to good use?
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