RSA Animate - Crises of Capitalism

1810 stirrings of independence, 1910 the Belle Époque, 2010 the A.B.C.D. of poverty

Plastic waiting chairs await me in the spacious immigration offices built for streams of millions of European poor from Italy, Spain and other nations at war. The huddled masses arrived flea-bitten and seasick in their millions in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. These fine buildings are reminiscent of the best [...]

Frente a la tragedia griega: Repensando una propuesta global para un problema global

Escrito por Oscar Ugarteche y Alberto Acosta

ALAI AMLATINA, 11/05/2010.- A lo largo de la historia financiera internacional se puede observar que los países deudores repetidamente toman créditos, tienen un auge, declinan, cesan los pagos y la vida continúa.

Walden Bello: The roles of China & The US in Climate Change

“While the corporations continue to believe in the strength of global supply chains.
Like any chain these are only a strong as their weakest link.”;
Walden Bello (Minute 21 of this video)

Why is Bolivia not playing ball?

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Part one of three
Part two of three
Part three of three

A short sequence of three videos of a speech given in English by Pablo Solon in Vancouver Canada in the run-up to the Conference in Cochabamba Bolivia where I shall be next week.

Editor's submission to Evo's conference

The Structural Causes of Climate Change

What follows is a discussion of structural problems in the relationship between national economies and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). The emphasis is on the role of transnational capital itself, independent of national political economics.

It is argued that in order to prevent further environmental degradation, pollution and climate change, the [...]

Venezuelan President's Speech on Climate Change

Copenhagen, Kingdom of Denmark, Wednesday, December 16th, 2009
President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Hugo Chávez:

Mr. President, ladies and gentlemen, Excellencies, friends, I promise that I will not talk more than most have spoken this afternoon. Allow me an initial comment which I would have liked to make as part of the previous point which [...]

How horribly inconvenient!

A Really Inconvenient Truth, February 5, 2010 · By Saul Landau
Al Gore didn’t even touch upon what the world needs to do to avert a global warming catastrophe.

This op-ed was originally published in Progreso Weekly on 2/3/10.

“The decade ending in 2009 was the warmest on record, new surface temperature figures released Thursday by the National [...]

Défendre la

WSF2010TV.jpgPablo Solon, ambassadeur de Bolivie auprès des Nations-Unies, militant de longue date et habitué des Forum sociaux, est venu à Porto Alegre ce qui a permis de mieux comprendre la proposition [...]

Defending Mother Earth in Cochabamba

WSF2010TV.jpgPablo Solon, Bolivia’s ambassador to the United Nations and a veteran of the World Social Forum, came to the Porto Alegre WSF 10th year events, to share information and gather support for the conference. He spent three hours meeting with climate justice activists and movements and there was a very useful sharing of information and [...]