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How China Scammed Hong Kong
“After many years of rejecting the people of Hong Kong’s persistent demands for genuine universal suffrage and other rights, China...chose the eve of July 1... to pass a draconian national security law that will forever harm Hong Kong’s political freedoms and hobble its economic relations with the rest of the world” (Yi-Zheng Lian, 2020).
What Facebook and the Oil Industry Have in Common
“Facebook’s core business is to get as many people as possible to spend as many hours as possible on its site, so that it can sell those people’s attention to advertisers...this notion of core business explains a lot—including why it’s so hard to make rapid gains in the fight against climate change” (Bill McKibben, 2020).
Why Do the Rich Have So Much Power?
“Huge disparities in income and wealth translate into comparable disparities in political influence. To see how this works, let’s look at a fairly recent example: the budgetary Grand Bargain that almost happened in 2011” (Paul Krugman, 2020).
Community Mobilisation: Unlocking the Potential of Community Power
"This report offers a how-to guide for organisations interested in the process of building communities into cohesive wholes, with clear objectives and clear plans...illustrating a range of potential strategies...to build active, networked and powerful communities" (Tiratelli 2020).
Are You Willing to Give Up Your Privilege?
“No chief executive, investor or rich person wakes up in the morning, looks in the mirror, and says, “Today, I want to go out and create more inequality in America.” And yet, all too often, that is exactly what happens” (Darren Walker, 2020).
Racial & Ethnic Economic Inequality and the COVID-19 Pandemic
This report examines “1.How are racial and ethnic disparities in the economy showing up in the COVID-19 epidemic?” 2. “How are racial and ethnic disparities showing up in the public policy response to the COVID-19 epidemic?” and looks at how economic effects of Covid impact inequality (Democracy Collaborative, 2020).
What the Courage to Change History Looks Like
“Yes, years of police killings of unarmed African-Americans had stacked up like dry tinder. True, George Floyd’s public murder furnished the spark. But freedom’s forge must finish its work while the coals are hot. This is the hour to reimagine what America could become if “We the People” meant all of us” (William Barber II et. al., 2020)
COVID-19 and the SDGs
"For each of the 17 SDGs, this briefing summarizes preliminary estimates on the actual or likely impacts of the global coronavirus crisis” and “illustrates that the 2030 Agenda will not be reached” and SDGs “will not be achieved if they are not systematically taken into account" (Martens et al., 2020).
preventing covid from killing democracy in Africa
The authors discuss how democracy in Africa brings up “human rights, the integrity of democracy and the legitimacy of governments” and how “the people and leaders of Africa must...ensure that the pandemic does not become an excuse simply to avoid or postpone elections for political advantage, or to institute authoritarian and anti-democratic measures” (Doss and Ibrahim, 2020).
New Forms Of Political Party Membership
This Primer analyse the new forms of political party membership and presents how different parties and contexts have given birth to different ways of engaging citizens in the party’s life. (IDEA, 2020)
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