1. Occupy movement under attack
2. Waking up to the role of the police
3. Bloomberg's real message
4. Anonymous strikes at the 1%
5. McGill students fight back
6. George Wright still free
7. Mc Sole
8. Occupy the Machine
Does the ailing world economy get you down? ContagionEx might be for you! Take a look at economic austerity and saving the world in a whole new light. A Mark Fiore political animation.
www.tackletaxhavens.com is a global campaign designed to raise public awareness of tax havens: what they are, the damage they do and how we can tackle them together.
Taxes are the most efficient and sustainable means of supporting vital public services like education, healthcare, a legal framework, police force, public transport networks, welfare and much, much more.
But the wealthy can escape their responsibilities to the societies on which they and their wealth depend - by hiding their money in tax havens.
O economista João Pedro Martins publicou recentemente o livro “Suite 605: A história secreta de centenas de empresas que cabem numa sala de 100 m2”, que está relacionado com o paraíso fiscal da Madeira.
Nesta entrevista conduzida pelo jornalista Ricardo Alexandre, João Pedro Martins explica que em causa estão empresas fictícias que só estão na Madeira para que as multinacionais e alguns empresários portugueses fujam aos impostos de forma legal.
“O que está a acontecer em toda a Zona Franca da Madeira é uma autêntica batota fiscal para que quem tem dinheiro não pague impostos em Portugal”, sublinha João Pedro Martins na sequência da investigação que desenvolveu ao longo do último ano. O economista assegura que há “um ninho de corrupção na Madeira” e um “viveiro do crime organizado”, defendendo que é preciso uma investigação judicial à situação.
A história secreta de centenas de empresas que cabem numa sala de 100 m2
SUITE 605 é a maior investigação realizada sobre a Zona Franca da Madeira. O autor de Revelações regressa para nos oferecer um cocktail explosivo que conta a história secreta de centenas de empresas que cabem numa sala de 100m2.
TV Senado (05/09/2011) - O mundo precisa reduzir as taxas de crescimento para proteger o Meio Ambiente. Essa é a opinião de especialistas em uma audiência pública da Subcomissão Permanente de Acompanhamento da Rio+20
Portugal prepara-se para perder o último troço de vida selvagem. Depois de milhões de anos a traçar o percurso até ao Douro, o rio Sabor, em Trás-os-Montes, fica refém da estratégia energética do pais. A construção da Barragem do Baixo Sabor (em alternativa ao Baixo Côa) vai inundar milhares de espécies, muitas delas protegidas. A albufeira vai atingir quatro municípios e guardar água suficiente para encher mais de 600 estádios de futebol. Em 2013 nada será como antes e os 40 kms da albufeira a ser criada, e amparada por um muro com mais de 120 metros, apaga as memórias de uma região ligada à terra que a sustentou durante muitas décadas. A nível natural há espécies endémicas que não poderão ser recuperadas e tudo aponta para que o espelho de água que aí vem não poderá ter aproveitamento turístico. A nível energético passa a ser possível retirar água do Rio Douro e guardá-la a montante no Sabor para ser usada sempre que a pressão na rede eléctrica justificar. O rio vai muitas vezes correr ao contrario, mas à mercê do que a EDP entende ser um armazenamento estratégico de água. Durante mais de um ano todos os passos deste processo foram registados.
Professor John Cacioppo, author of the bestselling book Loneliness and co-founder of the study of 'social neuroscience' outlines the vital importance of altruistic behaviour, social connection, and inclusive communities.
John Cacioppo, one of the founders of social neuroscience, presented his pioneering research on the ways in which isolation or a sense of rejection deeply impacts both mental and physical wellbeing.
Loneliness disrupts not only thinking ability, will power and perseverance but also key cellular processes within the human body, potentially leading to high blood pressure, decline in immune response, and dramatic increase in the corrosive effects of stress. Using sophisticated tools, including fMRI, Cacioppo has documented how social isolation, distinguished from physical isolation, profoundly affects our body and behavior, suggesting that chronic loneliness could be considered as dangerous to health as risk factors such as smoking.
Cacioppo is the Tiffany and Margaret Blake Distinguished Service Professor at The University of Chicago, the director of the University of Chicago Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience, and the director of the Arete Initiative at the University of Chicago.
Este es el segundo encuentro de mujeres llevado en Cali este 7 de agosto de 2011, este encuentro de mujeres se realizo con comunidades indígenas, campesinas y rurales de todo el suroccidente. Video de DHNomadesc1 colgado el 11/11/2011 en youtube
Si quieres conocer videos similares puedes acceder al canal de Defensa de Territorios de Vimeo (vimeo.com/channels/162059) o a la página web del proyecto: defensaterritorios.org, dónde en el menú multimedia puedes acceder a documentales, entrevistas, filmación de conferencias.
La página web de Defensa de territorios forma parte del trabajo que lleva adelante la Asociación Entrepueblos (web: epueblos.pangea.org/)
Si quieres ponerte en contacto: defensaterritorios.ep@gmail.com
Summary: Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? If civilization is destroying us and the earth, do we need to bring down civilization?
Recorded by: Maria Gilardin TUC Radio
Derrick Jensen wrote in his early book: "Listening to the Land": "We are members of the most destructive culture ever to exist. Our assault on the natural world, on indigenous and other cultures, on women, on children, on all of us through the possibility of nuclear suicide and other means--all these are unprecedented in their magnitude and ferocity."
And he follows that with a question: "Why do we act as we do? What are sane and effective responses to outrageously destructive behavior? What will it take for us to stop the horrors that characterize our way of being? My work and life revolve around these questions."
When I recorded him in the Oakland, California warehouse of AK Press, he asked that question in a much more pointed way: If civilization is destroying us and the earth, do we need to bring down civilization?
Les Mutins de Pangée filment le direct de l’émission de radio "Là-bas si j’y suis" sur le stand de France Inter. Daniel Mermet invite l’économiste Frédéric Lordon.
Final Project of my Masters´s Degree in Wildlife Documentary Production from the University of Salford.
Film marked with a distinction. Filmed in Portugal during May/June 2011. A voyage by the Mondego river´s wildlife from the mountains to the sea.
Synopsis
A river acclaimed by poets and songwriters, closely entwined in the History of Portugal. As its waters merge with the sea, a small stream, hidden in the high mountains of Serra da Estrela, continues to ensure the Mondego breathes life into its great variety of habitats and wildlife.
Sherif, M. (1935). A study of some social factors in perception. Archives of Psychology, 27(187), pp.17-22.
Asch, S.E. (1951). Effects of group pressure upon the modification and distortion of judgment. In H. Guetzkow (ed.) Groups, leadership and men. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Press.
Asch, S.E. (1955). Opinions and social pressure. Scientific American, 193(5), pp.31-35.
Berns, G.S., Chappelow, J., Zink, C.F., Pagnoni, G., Martin-Skurski, M.E., and Richards, J. (2005) 'Neurobiological Correlates of Social Conformity and Independence During Mental Rotation' Biological Psychiatry, 58(3), pp.245-253.
Weaver, K., Garcia, S.M., Schwarz, N., & Miller, D.T. (2007) Inferring the popularity of an opinion from its familiarity: A repetitive voice can sound like a chorus. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(5), 821-833.
Grahame Russell of Rights Action joins us for a 30 minute interview about the health, environmental and other heinous human rights violations caused by Canadian mining companies in Guatemala, Honduras and El Salvador -- and about the impunity with which they operate.
While our lying politicians and media tell us we are fighting for democracy in Libya and Afghanistan,
we find out that really, Canadian Corporations are terrorists.
This program is a shocking eye-opener.
Entitled "The Brain on Trial: Neuroscience and the Law," the symposium discussed how advances in neuroscience pose serious challenges for the judicial system. Judges are being asked to admit as evidence the results of neuroimaging as a basis for everything from assessing the competency of a defendant to stand trial, to determine whether someone is being truthful, to judging criminal responsibility. The reliability of eyewitness testimony, the most common cause of erroneous convictions, is being questioned. Even the Supreme Court has cited research on the brain in decisions on the death penalty for the mentally retarded and persons under 18.
"Make You remember", performed by Gabrielle Louise (www.gabriellelouise.com) in concert at the Institute of Musical Traditions (www.imtfolk.org), Airshow Mastering, Takoma Park, MD, USA on August 14, 2011.
Gabrielle Louise is a nationally touring troubadour noted for her poignant lyrics (a two-time John Lennon Songwriting Contest finalist, winner of the Jack Maher Songwriting Award) and lush voice. Gabrielle Louise's music is anchored deeply in folk, but undeniably drawn to rich harmonies and melodic adventurism. Her sound has the earthy feel of early Joni Mitchell while also veering into the spirited delivery of fellow genre-hopping artist Martin Sexton. Unafraid to take a random musical escapade in the name of inspiration, Gabrielle is at one moment folkie and ethereal, the next moment a smoky jazz chanteuse. Recently, she's fallen very much in love with Argentine Tango, and is committing time to studying to play and sing tango standards.
Resumen de la ideología y propuestas del movimiento por el decrecimiento de la mano de Paul Ariès, entrevistado en un acto de apoyo a una candidatura en marzo de 2011.
David Eagleman: Will We Ever Understand the Brain?swissnex San Francisco - California Academy of SciencesAs neuroscientists are learning more and more about our body's hidden frontier, we have gained fleeting insights into our own intuition, habits and seemingly unexplainable preferences. Can we solve those mysteries by creating a complete computer model of our brain? Or, is the brain an unsolvable puzzle? Two leading neuroscientists discuss these question and more as we look into the neurology of the brain.
Technocrats have been installed to lead Rome and Athens, but what do markets think? Italian bond yields are on the rise again, Spanish bond yields are on the rise. So who really rules: Politicians or markets? As billionaire investor Warren Buffet says, "markets are stronger than anything." We also hear from economist Nouriel Roubini on a possible eurozone breakup. Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama pushes for a trade deal with nine Asia Pacific nations at the APEC summit in Honolulu. But wasn't it just a month ago the US and China were on the brink of a trade war? We ask, with the global economy or at least Western economies possibly headed towards a lost decade, are we going to see not more trade deals, but trade wars? Plus, Obama and other world leaders get a protester serenade inside APEC.
It's Arundhati Roy's first and so far only book of fiction and it took the literary world by storm, winning the Booker Prize in 1997.
It's a story about the childhood experiences of fraternal twins whose lives are destroyed by the "Love Laws" that lay down "who must be loved, and how, and how much". The book is a description of how the small things in life affect people's behaviour and their lives, and with a love affair between characters of different backgrounds, shows how cruel the caste system could be.
Arundhati Roy talks about why she's never written fiction since, and how she's not ruling out a return to the genre. She describes how her training as an architect was useful in the planning of this multi-layered story, with its complex time frames which owe a debt to James Joyce's Ulysses.
Economist Richard Douthwaite explains that our current economic system relies on debt for money supply. This means that our economic model requires constant economic growth. He goes on to imagine what happen in a sustainable economic system.
Jem Bendell is a professor and the owner-director of Lifeworth Consulting, providing solutions for systemic change towards sustainable development. For 16 years he has consulted with business, United Nations (UN) and civil society, while writing over 100 publications on the social responsibility of organisations.
In TEDxTransmedia he denounces the crisis in the monetary system.
In this segment, I explain the overall political economic philosophy behind Cleveland’s Evergreen Cooperatives, which I helped develop as a part of the Democracy Collaborative. By reinscribing worker ownership within a community framework, cooperatives like these can not just build a more equitable economy, but can help us get past the growth imperative and stave off ecological crisis.
Dr. David C. Korten is the author, most recently, of "Agenda for a New Economy: From Phantom Wealth to Real Wealth", and "The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community." His previous books include the international best-seller "When Corporations Rule the World;" and "The Post-Corporate World: Life after Capitalism."
Dr. Korten is board chair of YES! Magazine; a board member of the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE); co-chair of the New Economy Working Group, founded in late 2008 with the Institute for Policy Studies; founder and president of the People-Centered Development Forum; a founding associate of the International Forum on Globalization; and a member of the Social Ventures Network, and the Club of Rome. He holds MBA and Ph.D. degrees from the Stanford Business School, has thirty years experience as a development professional in Asia, Africa, and Latin America and has served as a Harvard Business School professor, a captain in the US Air Force, a Ford Foundation Project Specialist, and a regional adviser to the US Agency for International Development.
Harrison Schultz is a sociologist and anarchist occupier at #occupywallstreet
Coloquio y charla de Enric Duran, en el que expone con muchos detalles cómo ha sido el recorrido que dio origen a la Cooperativa Integral Catalana, el actual proceso que ha seguido y la resolución de dudas que pueden surgir fácilmente tras esta exposición.
Tras el 15M ha resurgido con fuerza esta iniciativa abrazada ahora desde diferentes ámbitos del estado, creándose distintas propuestas de creaciones de Cooperativas Integrales.
[AUZOLAN Cooperativa Integral - AUZOLAN Kooperatiba Integrala]
[Cooperativa Integral Valenciana (proyecto ciudadano)]
[Cooperativa Integral de Madrid y alrededores]
[COOPERATIVA INTEGRAL AMALUR]
Grabado en la I Foro Social de Economía del 15-m (24-25 de julio de 2011) en el Retiro de Madrid.
This turbulent, troubled global economy is precisely what Chris Martenson predicted in early 2010, "When Exponential Meets Reality" (episode 166). He asserts that we can no longer look at the economy without factoring in the terminal decline of its master resource -- oil. The author of "The Crash Course: The Unsustainable Future of Our Economy, Energy and Environment" believes that, as "the generation that gets to deal with hitting up to resource limits," we first need a new cultural story to inspire appropriate action.
Gloria Steinem, a world-renowned writer, lecturer, editor, and feminist activist, co-founded New York magazine in 1968 and Ms. Magazine in 1972, for which she continues to serve as a consulting editor. She has produced a documentary on child abuse, a feature film about the death penalty and been the subject of countless profiles. Her books include the bestsellers Revolution from Within: A Book of Self-Esteem, Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Moving Beyond Words, and Marilyn: Norma Jean, and she helped edit The Reader's Companion to U.S. Women's History. Ms. Steinem has helped found many important groups, including: the Women's Action Alliance, the National Women's Political Caucus, Voters for Choice, Choice USA, the Ms. Foundation for Women, Take Our Daughters to Work Day, the Beyond Racism Initiative, and the Women's Media Center.
Center creative director Karen Brown's plenary talk "Revolutionizing K--12 Education with Sustainability in Mind". Enthusiastically received by a live audience of 3,000 at the Bioneers Conference in San Rafael, California and by video Beaming Bioneers gatherings across North America.
Capitalism Is The Crisis: Radical Politics in the Age of Austerity examines the ideological roots of the "austerity" agenda and proposes revolutionary paths out of the current crisis. The film features original interviews with Chris Hedges, Derrick Jensen, Michael Hardt, Peter Gelderloos, Leo Panitch, David McNally, Richard J.F. Day, Imre Szeman, Wayne Price, and many more!
The 2008 "financial crisis" in the United States was a systemic fraud in which the wealthy finance capitalists stole trillions of public dollars. No one was jailed for this crime, the largest theft of public money in history.
Instead, the rich forced working people across the globe to pay for their "crisis" through punitive "austerity" programs that gutted public services and repealed workers' rights.
Austerity was named "Word of the Year" for 2010.
This documentary explains the nature of capitalist crisis, visits the protests against austerity measures, and recommends revolutionary paths for the future.
Special attention is devoted to the crisis in Greece, the 2010 G20 Summit protest in Toronto, Canada, and the remarkable surge of solidarity in Madison, Wisconsin.
Derrick Crowe, War Costs Political Director, joins Thom Hartmann. Meet the top one-one hundredth of one percent - America's war profiteers who are making enormous bucks hurtling our nation into one war after another. Brave New Foundation has just launched a new War Costs video to expose the .01 percenters in America.
George Soros explains to Reuters' Chrystia Freeland how German Chancellor Angela Merkel's actions in 2008 could lead to the disintegration of the European Union. Consequently, a disorderly default of European sovereignties may lead to a global financial meltdown worse than 2008. He explains his analysis here.
This week's guest on Sea Change Radio is author and futurist James Howard Kunstler. In his numerous articles and books he paints a future that involves rather drastic changes to business as usual for the human race. His most recent article in Orion Magazine, Back To The Future, attempts to punch holes in the theories of urbanists like Harvard economist Edward Glaeser who believe that increased, more efficient urbanization can be a life raft for a human race that has already depleted many of earth's treasures.
In his talk with host Alex Wise, you'll hear Kunstler's own dystopian theories on the fate of suburban America, the necessary decline of global commerce, and the bumbling nature of grassroots environmental efforts. But, lest this interview leave us all feeling paralyzed by gloom, Mr. Kunstler talks about what makes him most optimistic about a post-carbon tomorrow.
"Los grupos de poder dominantes intentan reconciliar otra vez, y a partir de las múltiples crisis, la economía capitalista y la apropiación/destrucción de la naturaleza bajo el concepto de "Economía Verde". Ulrich Brand nos habla de la financiarización de los recursos naturales y plantea una transformación socio-ecológica.
Ulrich Brand es Politólogo y Economista. Es Profesor de Política Internacional en la Universidad de Viena.
La mayoría de las ecoaldeas o proyectos que proponen alternativas para utilizar los recursos energéticos, cultivar la tierra o mejorar las relaciones humanas se refieren a la permacultura como guía. Perma... ¿qué?, dicen muchos al escuchar la palabra. ¿Y eso qué es? Para tratar de responder a la pregunta un equipo de El Escarabajo Verde ha estado grabando en el Instituto de Permacultura Montsant, en Tarragona, que lleva unos 20 años formando a gente de todo el mundo, y donde la permacultura se aprende practicando.
Andy Storey es portavoz de Action from Ireland y Profesor de Política Económica y Desarrollo de la Universidad de Dublin. En esta entrevista nos explica la situación respecto a la deuda en su país.
Entrevista grabada durante el encuentro "Viviendo en deudocracia: La deuda en los países del Norte: aprendiendo del Sur" organizadas con el objetivo de proporcionar claves para entender y afrontar la deuda y la actual situación de crisis económica que padecemos.
In this interview we discuss the current reality of capitalism and urban agriculture, and what’s one the horizon for each. Specifically:
-His latest book, Entropy of Capitalism
-The Policy of Urban Agriculture
-The Current Food Crisis
Join as Ellen and Luke discuss why so much is going wrong everywhere at once and how life teaches us to fix it. The interview gives an in-depth look at Ellen's book "Life Rules".
Derrick Jensen is a prolific writer, speaker and activist. He is the author of Endgame and a myriad of other thought-provoking titles. He joins Luke now to discuss his latest work, Dreams.
Eduardo Galeano: "El mundo se divide en indignos e indignados"
The Crime of Ecocide
http://www.pollyhiggins.com/
"... move away from property laws to trusteeship laws, so rather than I own, to I owe. I owe a duty of care to this planet."
12-year old Victoria Grant explains why Canada (her homeland) and most of the world, is in debt.
"How the Media Frames Political Issues" by Scott London
In The Emergence of American Political Issues (1977) McCombs and Shaw state that the most important effect of the mass media is "its ability to mentally order and organize our world for us. In short, the mass media may not be successful in telling us what to think, but they are stunningly successful in telling us what to think about."[13] The presidential observer Theodore White corroborates this conclusion in The Making of a President (1972):
The power of the press in America is a primordial one. It sets the agenda of public discussion; and this sweeping political power is unrestrained by any law. It determines what people will talk and think about - an authority that in other nations is reserved for tyrants, priests, parties and mandarins.[14]
McCombs and Shaw also note that the media's tendency to structure voters' perceptions of political reality in effect constitutes a bias: "to a considerable degree the art of politics in a democracy is the art of determining which issue dimensions are of major interest to the public or can be made salient in order to win public support."[15] http://www.scottlondon.com/reports/frames.html
