Es paradojico que ante la desgracia de un pueblo pobre y olvidado por todos, sean los grandes medios de comunicación quienes saquen provecho económico propalando los comunicados de la empresa asesina Antamina, y silenciando las declaraciones de los damnificados.
El domingo 5 de agosto visitamos la comunidad Santa Rosa de Cajacay, donde la empresa Antamina puso en peligro la vida de los humildes pobladores al no tomar medidas de precausiones extremas con sus mineroductos que pasan esta zona amenazando la salud y la vida de más de 100 familias.
Al parecer, luego de una semana de ocurrido este macabro accidente que intoxicó a la mayoría de los pobladores, un congresista llegó al mismo lugar de los hechos, Jorge Rimarachín, a pesar de no ser de la región Ancash.
RESUMEN: Un documental del Observatorio de Responsabilidad Social Corporativo en coproducción con la Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED).
Las personas de todo el mundo cada vez somos más dependientes de un menor número de grandes empresas globales. Monsanto controla el 90% de las semillas transgénicas, Microsoft tiene un 88.26% de la cuota del mercado en software informático seguida por Apple con Mac tan solo un 9.93%, Cada día 150 millones de personas en todo el mundo compran un producto Unilever sin ni siquiera saberlo, MC Donald sirve 58,1 millones de comidas diarias en todo el mundo. De las 100 economías más grandes del mundo, 51 son empresas. Los estados pierden poder al mismo ritmo que las grandes corporaciones lo ganan. La globalización ha generado un nuevo contexto que requiere una redefinición de las reglas de juego para la sociedad global del siglo XXI.
En este contexto surge el debate en torno a la responsabilidad social corporativa o de las empresas (RSC), que se plantea como el punto de partida desde el cual replantearse el equilibrio entre el desarrollo económico, la sostenibilidad medioambiental y el desarrollo social necesarios para construir el nuevo tipo de sociedad que queremos. Aunque se está produciendo un incremento paulatino del interés por la Responsabilidad Social Corporativa, tanto en círculos empresariales como en el ámbito social, lo cierto es que el proceso está siendo demasiado lento.
Es el momento de que todos nos planteemos qué tipo de sociedad queremos construir y qué papel debemos jugar para contribuir a su desarrollo. Debemos asumir el rol de personas consumidoras, trabajadoras y opinión pública implicadas en la aplicación de los modelos responsables en todos los ámbitos de actuación de las empresas.
Un documental coproducido por la UNED, en el CEMAV, para la iniciativa "NO A LA VENTA" http://www.noalaventa.com/ del Observatorio de Responsabilidad Social Corporativa (RSC), (http://www.observatoriorsc.org/ "una asociación integrada por quince organizaciones representativas de la sociedad civil, entre las que se encuentran ONG, sindicatos y organizaciones de consumidores/as. Es una red que fomenta la participación y cooperación entre organizaciones sociales que, desde diferentes puntos de vista, trabajan en Responsabilidad Social Corporativa." Entre las entidades colaboradoras se encuentra la UNED. Más información sobre RSC de la UNED en el blog de Responsabilidad Corporativa y Sostenibilidad http://rsc.uned.es/.
Lucy Komisar: closing down the corporate Tax Haven Racket, spoke June 2007 in Washington DC at the Taming the Giant Corporation Conference.Center for Study of Responsive Law. June 8.
Los movimientos de todo el mundo han denunciado los rescates y la evasión de impuestos que han enriquecido al 1% a costa del 99%, pero eso es solo una parte del cuadro. El TNI acaba de presentar un nuevo video de animación que revela, usando un lenguaje accesible, cómo los acuerdos internacionales de inversión son también una pieza clave del sistema económico global que está enriqueciendo a una pequeña elite corporativa a expensas de la ciudadanía.
El video explica, por ejemplo, que: • las demandas de corporaciones contra gobiernos han aumentado casi un 1200% desde 1990 • la factura que debe pagar Argentina para defenderse de las demandas corporativas asciende a los 912 millones de dólares, una cantidad equivalente al salario medio anual de 140.000 maestros o de 75.000 doctores en hospitales públicos • los abogados de las corporaciones, que tienen sus bufetes sobre todo en el Reino Unido y los Estados Unidos, cobran unos 800 dólares por hora y animan a las corporaciones a presentar demandas
Around the world, citizens have been
mobilizing to defend their environment and economic sovereignty from
transnational corporations, but there is another threat lurking in the
shadows that can ride roughshod over our rights. This is a video of
the Network for Justice in Global Investment www.justinvestment.org
Local sovereignty, militarization and colonization, forms of development, control and ultimate ownership of resources, worker rights, investment protocols, energy and resource battles are all implicated in the grand bargain sought by great powers and their corporations. We need to learn every detail of these agreements, and their import. And we need to determine what, exactly, we can do about it.
Lori M. Wallach has been director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch since 1995.
Wallach is an expert on the operations and outcomes of trade policies such as NAFTA, WTO, CAFTA and more. She is steeped in the domestic and international politics of current trade negotiations and disputes. Wallach works closely with Congress and civil society, scholars, and activists in the U.S and developing countries to foster the growing debate about implications of different models of globalization on jobs, off-shoring, wages, the environment, public health and food safety; equality and social justice and democratically accountable governance.
A draft agreement leaked Wednesday shows the Obama administration is pushing a secretive trade agreement that could vastly expand corporate power and directly contradict a 2008 campaign promise by President Obama. A U.S. proposal for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact between the United States and eight Pacific nations would allow foreign corporations operating in the U.S. to appeal key regulations to an international tribunal. The body would have the power to override U.S. law and issue penalties for failure to comply with its ruling. We speak to Lori Wallach, director of Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, a fair trade group that posted the leaked documents on its website. "This is not just a bad trade agreement," Wallach says. "This is a 1% power tool that could rip up our basic needs and rights."
"Formula For Fraud" with William K. Black from the first Italian economic Summit on Modern Money Theory in Rimini, Italy. How to become a billionaire - the four necessary ingredients in the recipe for fraud; the three sure consequences of banking control fraud; gutting of the underwriting process; Gresham's Law; The Business Roundtable; hyperinflation of a bubble.
Van
Jones, acclaimed author and President of Rebuild the Dream, and Eliot
Spitzer, former Governor of New York, discuss the actors who triggered
the 2008 financial collapse and the ramifications of the regulatory
failure on middle class America.
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Culture Project's
acclaimed town hall series, is a bold hybrid of journalism, theatre and
film that brings together leading experts in politics, journalism,
academia, and social activism along with visionary artists, to create
high-voltage, multimedia conversations designed to educate, entertain
and mobilize citizens for vigorous engagement in restoring
accountability into our civic society.
Accountability is critical
to democracy. At a time when grave challenges threaten American
democracy, Culture Project presents "Blueprint for Accountability," a
series that asks "How can we empower ourselves to hold our leaders--in
government, education and corporate institutions--accountable for the
events of the past and the conditions of the future?"
Robert
Proctor, Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University,
explains ways in which the tobacco industry has manipulated science.
Proctor argues that tobacco-friendly scientific research was "mounting a
gigantic confusion campaign."
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Some 65% of all
research and development in the U.S. is funded by private interests.
History shows that the corporate funding of scientific research can be
problematic — the tobacco industry offers a potent example. When
corporations fund science, is truth the ultimate goal, or is stockholder
profit?
Please join five outstanding scholars and teachers as
they take part in a panel discussion that asks, "Does Corporate Funding
Corrupt Science?"
Excellent presentation by Jeff Clements,
author of "Corporations Are Not People". Jeff is also the founder of
Free Speech for People, a national non-partisan campaign working to
restore democracy to the people and return corporations to their place
as economic rather than political entities.
"As
natural gas production rapidly increases across the U.S., its
associated pollution has reached the stage where it is contaminating
essential life support systems - water, air, and soil - and causing harm
to the health of humans, wildlife, domestic animals, and vegetation.
This project was designed to explore the health effects of products and
chemicals used in drilling, fracturing (frac'ing, or stimulation),
recovery and delivery of natural gas. It provides a glimpse at the
pattern(s) of possible health hazards posed by the chemicals being used.
There are hundreds of products in current use, the components of which
are, in many cases, unavailable for public scrutiny and for which we
have information only on a small percentage.
Toxic chemicals are
used at every stage of development to reach and release the gas.
Drilling muds, a combination of toxic and non-toxic substances, are used
to drill the well. To facilitate the release of natural gas after
drilling, approximately a million or more gallons of fluids, loaded with
toxic chemicals, are injected underground under high pressure. This
process, called fracturing (fracking or stimulation), uses
diesel-powered heavy equipment that runs continuously during the
operation. One well can be fracked 10 or more times and there can be up
to 28 wells on one well pad. An estimated 30% to 70% of the frac'ing
fluid will resurface, bringing back with it toxic substances that are
naturally present in underground oil and gas deposits, as well as the
chemicals used in the frac'ing fluid. Under some circumstances, nothing
is recovered.
Drilling or reserve pits are found on most well
pads. They hold used drilling muds, frac'ing fluids and the
contaminated water (produced water) which surfaces with the gas.
Produced water is found in most regions where gas is extracted and
continues to surface for the life of the well (20 to 30 years). It is a
common practice to haul it in "water trucks" to large, central
evaporation pits. Many of the chemicals found in drilling and
evaporation pits are considered hazardous wastes by the Superfund
Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act
(CERCLA). Upon closure, every pit has the potential to become a
superfund site."
Climate Deniers: climate change is not real, not significant, natural and not man-made, will be good & wont hurt you, is worth the inconvenience – the Greenhouse Mafia – carbon emission consumers of producers – coal, oil, gas, automobile, agriculture
Climate Traders: climate change is the single biggest problem and we can deal with it by exclusively focusing on reducing greenhouse emissions, every other problem needs to cue behind it
Climate Justice: global warming and climate change are a symptom of a pathological global system that is based on violence and exploitation. Imperialism, industrial and landed fuedalism, capitalism
Around the world, citizens have been mobilizing to defend their environment and economic sovereignty from transnational corporations, but there is another threat lurking in the shadows that can ride roughshod over our rights. This is a video of the Network for Justice in Global Investment www.justinvestment.org
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.
The fossil fuel industry has left out a few details in their informational video about the process of drilling for natural gas. Comedian Julianna Forlano fills in the gaps in this special edition of The Ironic News Report.
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
I am just an anonymous citizen who firmly believes that we are the ones we are always waiting for. No saviors, heroes, leaders, gurus, or superior or inferior, we are all equals, and we need to think and behave as if it matters.
