“Do we not see the consequences of the global market?”
Flip the Coin, the documentary film, shows how Ericsson and Telenor for more than a decade have neglected to live up to their own Code Of Conduct. Fatal accidents, child labour, hazardous working conditions and environmental disasters is everyday occurrences in their factories in Bangladesh. Thousands of poor workers, work for subcontractors to Ericcson and Telenor. Two of the largest telecommunication companies in the world. These multinational companies guarantees to the public and there stock owners, that the employees and suppliers have to live op to the most basic human rights and environmental standards. “A Tower Of Promises” documents how these guarantees are nothing more than words on paper.
Internationally celebrated scholar/activist SUSAN GEORGE calls for a convergence of the global justice, environmental and peace movements to exert democratic control of an international politics now dominated by a corporate elite.
WALDEN BELLO, author, scholar, activist and founder of Focus on the Global South, lays out his view of the challenges and opportunities of the planetary movement he has helped to organize.
Introduced by International Forum on Globalization (IFG) founder JERRY MANDER, Celebrated author and world-class activist MAUDE BARLOW talks about the main points of her new book, BLUE COVENANT: The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.
Filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin on the troubling past of one of the world’s biggest agricultural companies.
Monsanto is a world leader in industrial agriculture, providing the seeds for 90 percent of the world’s genetically modified crops. Once a chemical company based in the US, Monsanto has transformed into an international life sciences company, aiming to solve world hunger and protect the environment. Filmmaker Marie-Monique Robin, however, exposes the company’s troubling past, in her recent film, The World According to Monsanto. In an interview with The Real News Network, she discusses Monsanto’s controversial practices from a producer of PCBs and Agent Orange to genetically modified seeds and related herbicides.
Marie-Monique Robin is an award winning French journalist and filmmaker who specializes in social and political issues. She is also the author of several books including Le monde selon Monsanto, De la dioxine aux OGM,which coincides with the launch of her documentary by the same name.
Unregulated and criminal speculation main cause of high oil prices.
Oil consuming nations stepped up pressure on the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) on Sunday to increase production at an international summit on spiraling crude prices in the Saudi city of Jeddah. OPEC leaders are saying doubling of oil prices over the past year was due to geopolitical tension, unregulated speculation and a shortage of refining capacity rather than a failure by producers to supply enough crude. Antonia Juhasz, author of the book “Tyranny of Oil” comments on the current situation.
Dr. James Hansen calls for moratorium on coal and phasing out by 2020
Dr. Hansen stated that we have already exceeded a safe amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, which he places at 350 parts per million (ppm). He testified that the US must begin using a carbon tax to lower the nation’s emissions and that the US must stop producing energy from coal by 2020.
James Hansen heads the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. He is currently an adjunct professor in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at Columbia University and serves as Al Gore’s science adviser. Hansen is best known for his research in the field of climatology and his testimony on climate change to congressional committees in the 1980s that helped raise broad awareness of the global warming issue.
Activists from the World Development Movement attended Barclays’ AGM to question the bank’s involvement in the controversial Phulbari Mine project in Bangladesh.
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