Articles by Allison Kilkenny
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Occupy Wall Street Activists Buy up Debt to Abolish It
Allison Kilkenny – The Nation,
19 Nov 2012
Strike Debt, a movement formed by a coalition of Occupy Wall Street groups looking to build a popular resistance to debt, plans to hold a telethon and variety show November 15 [2012] in support of the Rolling Jubilee, a system to buy debt for pennies on the dollar, and abolish it. Strike Debt hopes to raise $50,000, which the group claims can then be used to purchase, and eliminate, around $1 million in debt.
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Allison Kilkenny,
21 Jul 2009
The U.S. and India had a much easier time negotiating a multi-billion dollar arms deal than an agreement to protect the environment. NEW DELHI — U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton touted prospects for strengthening U.S.-India relations, despite sharp differences on carbon emissions, as they readied a pact giving U.S. companies more access to […]
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