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Confronting global heating through art

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

Can art help people confront the reality of curbing global heating?

Homelessness

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

Homelessness Can Only Really Be Tackled If People Have Somewhere to Go.

For the medium term, we need legal and policy changes to increase the supply of housing. This means discouraging practices that keep housing space vacant, as well as zoning laws that obstruct construction. We may also have to fund housing construction publicly.

For the long term, we must reduce population growth, which puts an unbearable burden in many ways (housing development is just one).

Film about cruel Tory welfare system

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

The film I, Daniel Blake is fiction, but so true to life that it might as well be a documentary about the cruel Tory welfare system.

I was thinking of calling it "heartless", but that word is not strong enough.

Attacks against dissidents in Zimbabwe

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

Violent attacks against dissidents in Zimbabwe are happening around 2 per day.

Guber in the UK

lundi 31 octobre 2016 à 01:00

Guber in the UK must now treat its drivers as employees, pay minimum wage, and provide benefits.

This may be a great step forward on one of the many injustices of Guber, but it will do nothing about how Guber mistreats its customers.