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domingo, 20 de dezembro de 2009

 


Escultura do artista dinamarquês Jens Galschiot no porto de Copenhaga lembra como os opulentos vivem à custa dos mais fracos 

A escultura do artista dinamarquês Jens Galschiot com o título «A sobrevivência dos opulentos» foi colocada à entrada do porto de Copenhaga no início deste mês de Dezembro e representa uma figura opulenta, símbolo dos países industrializados, às costas de uma figura mais frágil representada na pessoa de um homem africano.

A escultura acaba por confirmar o que os activistas sociais já suspeitavam, ou seja, o facto do mundo industrializado impedir a tomada de decisões importantes contra as alterações climáticas, cujas principais vítimas são as populações dos países mais pobres.

A escultura é acompanha da seguinte legenda:

I’m sitting on the back of a man.
He is sinking under the burden.
I would do anything to help him.
Except stepping down from his back.

Sobre Jens Galschiøt
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jens_Galschi%C3%B8t

Retirado de: http://pimentanegra.blogspot.com/

sábado, 6 de dezembro de 2008

Why is there No Class Warfare in the US?

American Exceptionalism and Inequality

By Chuck Collins

About the Lecture

In this talk, Collins discusses the economic impact of the (then) proposed and (now) passed into law Bush tax cut, and issues around distribution of wealth. United for a Fair Economy is a national non-partisan organization that draws attention to the dangerous consequences of growing income and wealth inequality in the US and inspires action to reduce economic inequality.

About the Speaker

Chuck Collins is co-Founder and Program Director, United for a Fair Economy and Responsible Wealth in Boston. He is co-author of several books about economic inequality including Economic Apartheid in America: A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity. His latest book, co-authored with William Gates, Sr., is Wealth and Our Commonwealth: Why America Should Tax Accumulated Fortunes (2003).

Mr. Collins holds a B.A. in History & Economics from Hampshire College (1984) and an M.B.A. in Community Economic Development from New Hampshire College (1987).
Institute for Policy Studies
MIT World

quinta-feira, 20 de novembro de 2008

Transforming the Global Economy:

Solutions for a Sustainable World
By Susan George
15 November 2008

The crisis that we are seeing today is not only the financial crisis - this is only one aspect of a much bigger systemic crisis that encompasses the social crisis, or crisis of inequality, the financial and the ecological crises, says Susan George in this video lecture, and suggests radical reforms that would create more just wealth distribution while saving the economy and the environment: an environmental Keynesianism.

Speach delivered at the School of International Development & Global Studies, University of Ottawa, 29 October 2008. Recorded by Chris Brown, LIQUID VISUAL, and published by blip.tv
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