http://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Cat-Power-01-Woman-feat.-Lana-Del-Rey-3331841.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsAsuncion There are more than 500,000 people living in the Asuncion, the capital and largest city in Paraguay, with 30% of the country’s population located in the metro area. In meetings with Habitat Paraguay, Banco Alimentos, and Oxfam Paraguay we heard a lot about the challenges …
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Global Inequality is Increasing Dangerously
New Orleans Rev. Martin Luther King’s last campaign was about poor people and human rights, taking another step down the road from civil rights. It’s no surprise that Oxfam International, even though based in the United Kingdom, chose the day set aside to celebrate King’s legacy as the day to release a report on the …
The Oxfam Report on “Working for the Few”
New Orleans The headline, sound bite from the Oxfam report, “Working for the Few: Political Capture and Inequality,” released on the eve of the World Economic Forum for the rich and business elite at Davos, Switzerland, was the fact that 85 individual super-rich have as much citizen wealth as half of the world’s population. Indeed, …