Ter Garcia, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times After two years of struggle for housing rights, the Spanish government and the country’s banks have announced an end to evictions for two years in cases of extreme need. Although activists say that this will not stop the “drama of the mortgages,” as it is called by the …
Ter Garcia, Waging Nonviolence Contributor Waking Times “This is not a crisis, it’s a fraud,” goes one of the most-chanted slogans of Spain’s 15M movement. Now, the movement has decided to use the courts to get the board of directors of Bankia on the dock. “The courts are there to be used when we see …
Last week, a press release was released revealing a new website apparently from Bank of America, YourBofA.com, followed by another, seemingly hastily-written press release imploring readers to ignore the “malicious website (YourBofA.com) that is fraudulently representing itself as a Bank of America re-branding effort.”
As Greece’s politicians and bankers further enslave their people to fiat debt, real people are finding real solutions that rely on little else than community. Developing their own bartering currency is allowing locals to participate in an beneficial homegrown economy. Could this happen in America as austerity comes home to roost?
