If you're one of about 317,000 unlucky New Yorkers, there's a good chance your boss screwed you this week. The average low-wage worker in the city loses approximately $58 a week—a total loss of more than $3,000 a year—thanks to employers who see cheating their workers as part of the cost of doing business.

People can assume control of what our future will look like. Will the collective "we" let it become a grim and joyless feudalism where the corporations control all aspects of the natural world? Or will it be a community-based syndicate of autonomous work collectives who collaborate to create and equally distribute necessities to all members of society in an open and democratic manner? As we engage locally, our relationships deepen and our emotional needs are increasingly met through community-based living. Desire for iPods and movies fade away as we laugh, sing, tell jokes and plant flowers for entertainment instead.

Dressed in striped stockings and Santa hats, RAP members and supporters participated in a lively demonstration on Saturday, December 19. The group of about a dozen people spent the snowy afternoon singing subversive Christmas carols, chanting, handing out flyers and subversive coupons, and showing video footage featuring firsthand accounts from retail workers.

In recent research, University of Washington economists Yoram Bauman and Elaina Rose found that economics majors were less likely to donate money to charity than students who majored in other fields. After majors in other fields took an introductory economics course, their propensity to give also fell.

The Labour minster of the socialist government in greece has expressed fears of bloodshed due to the measures set to be imposed in the next 3 months in response to the debt crisis of the country.

Danish diplomat - "We must produce an agreement that limits greenhouse gas emissions, transitions the world toward sustainable forms of energy, and invest state and private capital in technologies and infrastructure that mitigates already occurring climactic disruptions. All while growing our economies, of course."

ST. LOUIS — Confidential contracts detailing Monsanto Co.'s business practices reveal how the world's biggest seed developer is squeezing competitors, controlling smaller seed companies and protecting its dominance over the multibillion-dollar market for genetically altered crops, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Guy Debord wasn't buried. Following his wishes, his remains were cremated and scattered into the wind over a beloved Quay in Paris. The gesture couldn't be clearer: no place to come to worship his memory, to mark significant anniversaries or to leave tokens of appreciation. A refusal of eternity and "posterity"; an emphatic embrace of the ephemeral and disappearance(s). And so one can't say "Guy Debord is probably spinning in his grave" or "Guy Debord is probably laughing in his grave." But the question can still be raised. Fifteen years after he committed suicide at the age of 62: is Guy Debord, now in heaven or hell, spinning or laughing?

Wal-Mart Stores Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has agreed to pay $40 million to as many as 87,500 current and former employees in Massachusetts, the largest wage-and-hour class-action settlement in the state’s history.

The recession was long underway when the stock market crashed last September—it had been going on for nine months already as all who follow such things know. Yes September the month when the government nationalized Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac followed shortly by the investment house Merrill Lynch was forcibly merged into Bank America; the next day Lehman Brothers crashed and people like me cheered. This was quickly followed by the nationalization of AIG—the worlds largest insurance company—which unlike Lehman Brothers was considered “to big to fail.”