"Things are now so bad for people who find themselves at the bottom of the pile that we really must start asking why we have this pile in the first place." ...
What a marvellous and most important project this is! Congratulations Bob for introducing this, and thank you! Hope this is just the beginiing of big things to...
... ready-to-use Dorlingisms for all occasions :: Dear everyone - Just a quick note to say thanks for your participation in last night's meeting. This is also...
PS to my earlier message: Tomorrow (Saturday 24th November 07) will be the 14th anniversary of immigrant-detention at Campsfield House, near Kidlington, north...
6 Jan 08 I've been fortunate to get a copy of Prof Richard Wilinson's book, 'The impact of inequality.' It certainly bears out was Bob says in this group's...
You may be interested to know that Richard Wilkinson is speaking again in Oxford (thanks to Liz, who forwarded this to me a couple of months back!) ... ...
Greetings - and sorry about the lack of activity on this list so far. A couple of things may be of interest. This online newsletter ... Too Much - an online...
This article, by Heiko Khoo, gives a very convincing explanation for the explosion of unrest in Tibet: extreme inequality that is even more acute than the...
Just spotted this, on the Compass web site (Compass: "new direction for the democratic left"). Compass is rumoured to be having a conference about inequality...
Bob thanks so much for getting these pieces of information - really helpful. ... From: Bob Hughes To: equalitywhen@yahoogroups.com ;...
Liz Peretz
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Mar 19, 2008 6:46 pm
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On Wednesday's Nightwaves (BBC Radio 3) there was a fascinating discussion about Malthus and current anxieties of various kinds about "today's crowded world"...
21 Mar 08 Bob, as the report says: "the population of poor countries alone will rise by almost three billion in the next 30 years" (and what should "we" do...
Thanks for the link. Here's a good book on the connection between poverty and population-growth: Reproductive Rights and Wrongs, by Betsy Hartmann South End...
Asylum and Immigration: Organising for Justice Join us at 7.30pm on 20th May in Oxford Town Hall for: 1. A briefing on the Independent Asylum Commission...
Liz Peretz
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Apr 16, 2008 2:25 pm
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Positional goods are ones whose advantages are affected by social factors (notably, whether other people also have them, or not: country cottages, private...
May 20th and 28th reminder Independent Asylum Commission Report launch Dear all Just to remind you of two important dates for your diaries - May 20th Town Hall...
LIZ PERETZ
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May 15, 2008 3:11 pm
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My wife and I joined the Equality When? event last autumn. We're also members of Oxford Humanists and I'm sure quite a few of you who receive this email will...
John White
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May 28, 2008 10:19 pm
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HARD ON THE HEELS OF THE SEIZURE last year of 45% of Cambodia by foreign property speculators (see "Country for sale", Guardian Weekend, 26/4/2008: ...
COMPASS IS a slightly-left of centre Newish Labour think tank. They've clearly got the feeling that inequality is a bit of an issue and have made it the theme...
WHEN A SOCIETY EMBRACES INEQUALITY, and its conventions militate against straightforward mutual help, terrible delusions become central to what passes for...
23 July 08 He says: " household incomes have to be squeezed, economic growth reduced and unemployment raised." Perhaps this Bank of England guy should be the...
Hello, This email message is a notification to let you know that a file has been uploaded to the Files area of the equalitywhen group. File : /Income...
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Aug 31, 2008 7:17 am
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The Joseph Rowntree Foundation has just published a new report on "Young people and territoriality in British cities", by Keith Kintrea, Jon Bannister, Jon...
Thanks for this. I was going to make a comment to the effect that societal breakdown is commonly attributed (well, by Migration Watch etc - who get an ...
15 Jan 09  Thanks Bob for the information. It was good of you for taking the trouble to repond to that blatent ommission on the part of the BBC.  I'll...
IMPORTANT NEW BOOK, AND ORGANISATION, ON INEQUALITY, FROM RICHARD WILKINSON AND KATE PICKETT. Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett's long-awaited new book on ...
There's a chance to discuss the wider issue of how we promote equality, justice and peace at a conference I'm organising at Oxford Brookes next Thursday (March...
6 March 09 Hi Bob: That was a brilliant analysis of the talk between Wilkinson and the lady professor on radio channel 3, which I was lucky to catch. I...
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