Oposicion a la economia verde
Etiquetas: Economia Verde, esp, Radio Mundo Real
Blogueando desde marzo de 2004 / Blogging since March 2004. Creador también de The World According to Carmelo: carmeloruiz.tumblr.com. Contacto: ruiz@tutanota.com. Twitter: @carmeloruiz
Etiquetas: Economia Verde, esp, Radio Mundo Real
Recorded at the James A. Little Theater in Santa Fe, New Mexico on December 6, 2011
Norman Finkelstein received his doctorate in 1988 from the Department of Politics at Princeton University. For many years he taught political theory and has written and spoken publicly on the Israel-Palestine conflict.
Finkelstein is the author of six books that have been translated into more than 40 foreign editions: This Time We Went Too Far: Truth and Consequences of the Gaza Invasion; Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History; The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering; Image and Reality of the Israel-Palestine Conflict; A Nation on Trial: The Goldhagen Thesis and Historical Truth (with Ruth Bettina Birn); and The Rise and Fall of Palestine: A Personal Account of the Intifada Years. Finkelstein has also published several pamphlets, most recently, Goldstone Recants. He is currently working on a new book entitled Knowing Too Much: Why the American Jewish Love Affair with Israel is Coming to an End.
Finkelstein currently writes and lectures. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.
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Etiquetas: eng, Israel, Norman Finkelstein
Etiquetas: Economia Verde, esp, WRM
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Esperado regreso de Voz Campesina, el programa radial internacionalista y solidario de la CLOC - Vía Campesina y Radio Mundo Real. En este primer programa de 2012 realizamos un balance de 2011 desde las perspectivas del movimiento campesino, recordamos a Egidio Brunetto y nos proyectamos en la agenda de luchas para el año recién nacido.
Participan:
Viviana Rojas (Secretaría Operativa de CLOC) desde Quito, Ecuador. Yolanda Areas Blas (Vía Campesina Centroamérica), desde Nicaragua. Joaquin Pinheiro (Vía Campesina Brasil) Ignacio Cirio y Edgardo Mattioli (Radio Mundo Real), desde Montevideo.
Contacto: lavoz.campesina@gmail.com
VOZ CAMPESINA puede ser difundida por Radios Comunitarias y sitios web. Solamente pedimos nos informen a través de mensaje electrónico.
Etiquetas: esp, Radio Mundo Real, Via Campesina
Big Agribusiness Influence Threatens to Override Public Interest in Greed Revolution
A new 30-page report that documents the growing influence of agribusiness on the multilateral food system and the lack of transparency in research funding has been released today by the international civil society organization ETC Group. The Greed Revolution: Mega Foundations, Agribusiness Muscle In On Public Goods presents three case studies – one involving the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and two involving CGIAR Centers (Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research) – which point to a dangerous trend that will worsen rather than solve the problem of global hunger. The report details the involvement of, among others, Nestlé, Heineken, Monsanto, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Syngenta Foundation.
“It is unacceptable that the UN is giving multinational agribusiness privileged access to alter their agricultural policies,” said Pat Mooney, Executive Director of ETC Group, who has been involved in the field for 40 years. “It is ridiculous that the key organizations responsible for agricultural research have no credible data on the extent of corporate involvement in their work and that CGIAR’s biggest funder – at $89 million – is somebody called, ‘Miscellaneous!’ Governments and UN secretariats have forgotten that their first task is to serve the public – not the profiteers.”
The report shows that multinational corporations are now seeing their future profitability in “emerging economies,” and they are finally taking notice of the international institutions that have been quietly working throughout the global South for half a century. However this new interest in UN agencies is causing “mandate-muddle” as companies demand that policy be rewritten to better reflect their interests, including allowing privileged access to publicly held germplasm. Public institutions are tending to look the other way when Big Ag harms peasant agriculture.
“Public institutions related to food and agriculture are mandated to support the poor and hungry.
Governments need to address the big- and small-scale conflicts of interest, beginning with a long overdue investigation of the links between the international public and private sectors in food and agriculture. Based on our initial conversations with UN officials about this research, we are hopeful that this will happen,” concludes Mooney.
For more information:
Pat Mooney, ETC Group (Ottawa), etc@etcgroup.org; +1 613 241 2267; cell: +1 613 240 0045
Silvia Ribeiro, ETC Group (Mexico City), silvia@etcgroup.org; +52 55 5563 2664; cell: +52 1 55 2653 3330
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La Fundación Rosa Luxemburgo y la Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER) han producido cuatro programas radiales cortos y ocho cuñas sobre capitalismo verde, que son difundidos a través de las radios que integran ALER.
Puede acceder a las nuevas producciones en este link: http://www.rosalux.org.ec/es/mediateca/audios/283-capitalismo-verde
Radio Mundo Real se suma al esfuerzo de repique de este trabajo que difunde “el cuento de la economía verde: ni más ni menos que un cuento para ponerle precio a nuestro planeta”, como expresan los programas y cuñas.
La Fundación Rosa Luxemburgo, de origen alemán, expresa en su web que recoge el compromiso, las reflexiones políticas y el sueño de Rosa Luxemburgo, socialista, polaca y judía que vivió y luchó en Europa de 1871 a 1919. La activista revolucionaria fue una de las fundadoras históricas de la corriente del socialismo democrático, que anhelaba la justicia social y la libertad política. La Fundación Rosa Luxemburgo tiene como objetivos la formación política y la difusión de reflexiones, saberes, análisis e investigaciones que den cuenta del contexto social producido por un mundo capitalista, globalizado, desigual, injusto y en conflicto.
En tanto, ALER es una red de radios comunitarias y populares de América Latina que en 2012 llega a los 40 años de vida.
En esta oportunidad Radio Mundo Real difunde los dos primeros programas radiales sobre capitalismo verde producidos por la Fundación Rosa Luxemburgo y ALER (cada uno dura unos nueve minutos). En ellos hay una introducción al tema y aparecen como asuntos centrales los bosques, el mercado de carbono y el mecanismo de REDD (Reducción de Emisiones por Deforestación y Degradación de los bosques en los países en desarrollo).
Etiquetas: Capitalismo Verde, Economia Verde, esp, Radio Mundo Real
Etiquetas: Bill Weinberg, esp, Ron Paul
Press Release
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NEW REPORT: European banks fuelling food price volatility and hunger
Read the full report 'Farming Money’ here: http://www.foeeurope.org/publications/2012/Farming_money_FoEE_Jan2012.pdf
Brussels, January 12, 2012 – European banks, pension funds and insurance companies are increasing global hunger and poverty by speculating on food prices and financing land grabs in poorer countries, according to a new report released today (January 12) by Friends of the Earth Europe. [1]
The report analyses the activities of 29 European banks, pension funds and insurance companies, including Deutsche Bank, Barclays, RBS, Allianz, BNP Paribas, AXA, HSBC, Generali, Allianz, Unicredit and Credit Agricole. It reveals the significant involvement of these financial institutions in food speculation, and the direct or indirect financing of land grabbing. Environmental and development organisations are calling for strict regulation to rein in these destructive activities.
Daniel Pentzlin, sustainable finance campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe said: “Food speculation and the financing of land grabbing leads to a catastrophic instability in global food prices – forcing millions of people into poverty and hunger. European banks, insurers and funds that speculate with food and land are gambling with peoples’ lives whilst reaping huge profits. This industry needs strict regulation to protect the poorest in society.”
The European Commission’s proposed new rules for improving transparency in commodity derivatives markets [2] are a first step in the right direction, but serious omissions and loopholes need to be addressed. ‘Farming Money’ recommends a set of key measures to regulate European financial markets and tighten corporate policies on financial services and investments in food commodity derivatives and land deals.
Daniel Pentzlin continued: “2012 offers a big opportunity for Europe to put a stop to the environmental and social damage done by financial markets. Politicians need to step in and end excessive and harmful speculation.”
Food speculation, with billions of Euros flooding in and out of financial products based on foodstuffs, causes price volatility. These rapid and unpredictable price swings hit the most vulnerable hardest, threatening their right to food, and making it more difficult for farmers to maintain an income – creating instability, hunger and poverty. Land-grabs, following direct and indirect investments in land by large European financial institutions, mean European companies are snatching up land, increasingly in Africa, at the expense of local livelihoods and food sovereignty, in addition to causing knock on environmental devastation through land-use change.
Friends of the Earth Europe is calling on financial institutions to investigate, publish and reduce their involvement in food speculation and investments in land. Banks, pension funds and insurers should phase-out and refrain from speculating in financial products based on staple foods, which threatens the human right to food. European regulators should introduce caps on the size of bets speculators can make to curb excessive speculation.
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For more information, please contact:
Daniel Pentzlin, sustainable finance campaigner for Friends of the Earth Europe
Tel: +32 (0) 2 893 1024, e-mail: daniel.pentzlin@foeeurope.org
Sam Fleet, communications officer, Friends of the Earth Europe, (EN)
Tel: +32 (0) 2893 1012, samuel.fleet@foeeurope.org
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NOTES:
[1] The full report, ‘Farming Money: How European banks and private finance profit from food speculation and land grabs', was published by Friends of the Earth Europe, in collaboration with BankTrack, WEED, CRBM, World Development Movement, Corporate Europe Observatory, CNCD - 11.11.11, SETEM and Les Amis de la Terre. It can be downloaded and read here: http://www.foeeurope.org/publications/2012/Farming_money_FoEE_Jan2012.pdf
[2] On October 20, 2011, the European Commission published their proposals for a revised Market in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) and a new Regulation (MiFIR), found here: http://ec.europa.eu/internal_market/securities/isd/mifid_en.htm
Etiquetas: eng, Friends of the Earth, Hunger, Speculation
Etiquetas: eng, FPIF, Jeffrey Sachs
Etiquetas: eng, Food Crisis, IATP
Etiquetas: Argentina, esp, GRR, Horizonte Sur, Rulli
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles examining the history, activity, secrets and identity of the 1% in the US. See the first article here.
Today’s Democrats and progressive reformers often turn to the New Deal of the 1930s as an alternative model to the bankrupted policies the Republican Party has embraced since the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. Their thinking is that if President Franklin D. Roosevelt could pull the country out of a Depression in the 1930s (and save capitalism along the way), then surely the Obama Administration can do it again, even by applying some of the same principles. Take for example Thomas Geoghegan’s “What Would Keynes Do?” (The Nation, Oct. 17, 2010), a strong defense of the deficit budgeting in times of economic crisis championed during the New Deal by British economist John Maynard Keynes. President Barack Obama’s stimulus spending on public works was inspired by the New Deal’s Public Works Administration, and even though Obama’s spending package did not match the New Deal’s, Keynes’s economics has become “The GOP’s Latest Whipping Boy,” as headlined in The Washington Post recently. Here I take a closer look at FDR’s reforms, especially the economic reforms, to see if a new New Deal has any merit.
Etiquetas: 1%, eng, Gerard Colby
Etiquetas: Calle 13, Edgardo Rodriguez Julia, esp, Puerto Rico, Ramos Perea