Every Little Helps!
Following on from Frederick Dixon’s call to boycott Halifax Bank I would like to outline and suggest direct action that will both facilitate this boycott and raise funds for Western Spring and all persons undertaking this strategy. In a similar vein to Small Acts of Rebellion this article –prefaced with the handle “Every Little Helps”– is the first of several such articles proposing small acts of rebellion that we can all initiate. Here’s how it…
Boycott the Halifax!
Unless you have spent the last several months hibernating in a cave in Tibet you are unlikely to have missed the incessant television advertising from the Halifax Bank, nor will you have failed to notice that the present campaign features a Black school teacher and community activist – “our kind of man” – and his heavily pregnant White wife (or perhaps she’s his partner, the Halifax would not be so politically incorrect as to insist that…
Bush, Obama, NINJA Loans and the Greek Debt Crisis
By Max Musson: It appears that Greece is teetering in the brink of bankruptcy and if we were to listen to the usual financial pundits of the mass media, it would appear that ‘those Greeks’, those ‘lazy, hot-headed’ Mediterranean types — the kind of people who like to spend all day in the sun, eating olives and kebabs and drinking cheap red wine and ouzo — have gotten themselves in one hell of a financial…