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This blog originally appeared on Huffington Post.
This piece is part of a series of blogs by leading NGOs to call attention to a range of issues that should be raised at the G8 summit at Camp David in rural Maryland from May 18-19.
What do Desmond Tutu, Bill Gates, the new President of France, Al Gore and the...
This blog originally appeared in the Chicago Sunday Times.
Of all the street actions leading up to the NATO summit, the one that might seem most perplexing is a nurses’ rally for a tax on securities trades. Financial markets are pretty remote from hospital bedsides, you might think.
Why...
Robin Hood has been all over the UK and Scottish news this week after SCIAF Chair Cardinal O’Brien ambushed David Cameron and branded his failure to back a Robin Hood Tax in the UK as ‘immoral’, highlighting that this tiny tax could bring in £20billion every year in the UK to fight poverty at home and around the...
Today was Barclays Annual General Meeting, and a merry band of Robin Hood Tax supporters were there to mark the occasion with a good old tug-of-war.
The decisions made inside these meetings - like the size of CEO Bob Diamond's obscene pay package - don’t just affect shareholders. As taxpayers, we’re all getting a raw deal. Not least because one the reasons these huge payments are possible is due to an implict subsidy from the...
