G8, G20, or the World? Shout Out for Global Justice
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As finance ministers and heads of state of the world’s “richest” nations gathered for first the G8 and later the G20 meeting, the Council of Canadians held a ‘Shout Out for Global Justice’ featuring an abundance of resourceful people from the left. If you follow Democracy Now!, you can hear Amy Goodman’s talk, “Drilling, Spilling and Killing: From Oil Spills to Oil Wars.” DN! sent out a Tweet pointing to a Canadian news outlet, I had not heard of rabble.ca. You can see the whole ‘Shout Out’ streamed on a loop from RabbleTV. You can also see how the Canadian government spent more than $1 Billion fortifying Toronto for the G20 meeting and some of the demonstrations that have occurred.
Included in the ‘Shout Out’ are a bunch of people with interesting and resourceful responses to NeoLiberal globalization.
Dr. Vandana Shiva has been successful in thwarting the attempt by U.S. chemical giant Monsanto to monopolize the seed stock of Indian agriculture. I have a woman friend from India who is not particularly left politically. She has completed her medical training. She acknowledges that, “It was a good thing she [Shiva] did with the seeds.” My friend understands biology, I hope she will grow in political economy as well.
Pablo Solon, Bolivian UN Ambassador, discusses the struggle to resist privatization of resources in Bolivian. Many losses preceded the eventual success in resisting the privatization of water.
Naomi Klein, remarks on the security surrounding the G20 meeting.
Maude Barlow, Chairman of the Council of Canadians and author of Blue Gold.
More to come…
Time to guard the library.
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