Chumbawamba call on Spain’s far-right Vox to stop using their best-known song https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/02/chumbawamba-spain-far-right-vox-song-tubthumping 'It is not the first time Chumbawamba has felt compelled to speak out over the misappropriation of the song. In an article for the Guardian last year another member, Boff Whalley, criticised the populist New Zealand politician Winston Peters for using it.' Chumbawamba also objected to Clive Palmer using their song without permission in Australian politics. #copyright #music #economicrights #moralrights #Tubthumping #Chumbawamba #IGetKnockedDown #ButIGetUpAgain
Chumbawamba call on Spain’s far-right Vox to stop using their best-known song

British pop collective decry use of 1997 hit Tubthumping to promote the party’s ‘small-minded, hate-fuelled agenda’

The Guardian
Africa: As Donor Backing Winds Up, Who Will Fund Africa's Land Governance?: [New Times] Land is a vital productive asset, and access to it is an economic right. Yet governance across Africa remains weak, with many countries lacking clear rules that define ownership and tenure. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TPS2V7 #Africa #LandGovernance #EconomicRights #TenureSecurity #SustainableDevelopment

Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?

https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.14283

#HackerNews #TechnoFeudalism #AGI #EconomicRights #FutureOfWork #AIImpact

Techno-Feudalism and the Rise of AGI: A Future Without Economic Rights?

The rise of Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) marks an existential rupture in economic and political order, dissolving the historic boundaries between labor and capital. Unlike past technological advancements, AGI is both a worker and an owner, producing economic value while concentrating power in those who control its infrastructure. Left unchecked, this shift risks exacerbating inequality, eroding democratic agency, and entrenching techno-feudalism. The classical Social Contract-rooted in human labor as the foundation of economic participation-must be renegotiated to prevent mass disenfranchisement. This paper calls for a redefined economic framework that ensures AGI-driven prosperity is equitably distributed through mechanisms such as universal AI dividends, progressive taxation, and decentralized governance. The time for intervention is now-before intelligence itself becomes the most exclusive form of capital.

arXiv.org
@jkn Yes, I think that's the unfortunate reality of mainstream centralized financial instruments. They can use everything, including their biases and beliefs about your ethnicity, to freeze the funds you have contributed for many years. You have the right to take action and seek legal advice regarding their freezing of your funds, which is happening solely for one reason that they are questioning. #BankingDiscrimination #FinancialRacism #FrozenFunds #EthnicBias #UnfreezeMyMoney #LegalAction #BankAccountLock #FinancialJustice #SystemicBias #EconomicRights #FundsHostage #BankingReform #DiscriminatoryPractices #FinancialInclusion #AccountFreeze #BankingWhileBrown #ClassAction #ConsumerProtection #DefundBias #BankTransparency

Poverty is not only about income poverty, it is about the deprivation of economic and social rights, insecurity, discrimination, exclusion and powerlessness.

#Poverty #Ignorance #Hate #EconomicRights #SocialRights #Insecurity #Violence #Bullying #Bigotry #Discrimination #Exclusion #Humanity #AnaliticalThinkingSkills #CriticalThinkingSkills #Intelligence #Narcissism #Racism #Classism

Chumbawamba tells NZ deputy PM Winston Peters to stop using its Tubthumping anthem

Lead guitarist Boff Whalley says band does not share views of Winston Peters, who recently compared co-governance to policies of Nazi Germany

The Guardian
Chumbawamba tells NZ deputy PM Winston Peters to stop using its Tubthumping anthem

Lead guitarist Boff Whalley says band does not share views of Winston Peters, who recently compared co-governance to policies of Nazi Germany

The Guardian
Chumbawamba not happy about Winston Peters’ use of ‘Tubthumping’

The band has asked their record label to issue a cease and desist to stop the NZ First leader using their 1997 hit to support his 'misguided political views'.

The Spinoff
Letter to the Canadian Government Asking them to Help the Myanmar Revolutionaries

This is the letter I wrote to the Canadian government to ask them to help the common people of Myanmar, who have come together to fight for their rights against the military dictatorship. Please write your own letter, either in your own words or using my letter as a template. 

Letter to the Canadian Government Asking them to Help the Myanmar Revolutionaries

This is the letter I wrote to the Canadian government to ask them to help the common people of Myanmar, who have come together to fight for their rights against the military dictatorship. Please write your own letter, either in your own words or using my letter as a template.