Economic crisis, workers fight back


This video is called Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis.

International financial markets are careening toward collapse, as banks and entire states stand on the financial precipice: here.

USA: Poverty soared in 2010, a year after the Obama administration declared an end to the recession: here.

One in six US citizens are living in poverty, according to new census data: here.

Detroit residents picketed the main branch of the Detroit Library Tuesday to show opposition to threatened closure of six local libraries: here.

The California state auditor issued a report last month branding the defined benefit program of the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) a “high-risk issue.” The pension fund is the eighth largest in the world and the largest teachers’ pension fund in the US: here.

Tacoma public school teachers voted overwhelmingly to take strike action Monday night after months of contract negotiations: here.

TENS of thousands of Greek university and higher education college students from all over the country demonstrated last Saturday in the northern city of Thessaloniki along with workers and the unemployed in a most defiant anti-government march of more than 40,000: here.

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