KnowMore.org Firefox Extension

If you have not heard of www.knowmore.org then you need to check it out. It is a website that profiles hundreds of corporations and rates them on a variety of issues including workers rights, environmental practices, ethical business practices, political power, etc.

If you use Mozilla Firefox, then definitely install the KnowMore add-on. For more info about the add-on, go here.

Life and Debt

http://www.lifeanddebt.org/

Seriously, check out this amazing documentary about the ills of free trade, international lending, and what is essentially economic slavery that is going on all around the world right now. This documentary focuses on Jamaica.

Trailer:


And here is a pretty good article in the New York Times about the documentary.