The Wall Street Conspiracy explores a pernicious form of
fraud called illegal naked short selling that has had an enormous
impact on the 2008 collapse of the US economy.
His name is carefully guarded from the general public but within the
secretive inner circles of the ultra-rich Dr Alex Hoffmann is a legend –
a visionary scientist whose computer software turns everything it
touches into gold.
Together with his partner, an investment banker, Hoffmann has
developed a revolutionary form of artificial intelligence that tracks
human emotions, enabling it to predict movements in the financial
markets with uncanny accuracy. His hedge fund, based in Geneva, makes
billions.
But then in the early hours of the morning, while he lies asleep
with his wife, a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of
their lakeside house. So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia and
violence as Hoffmann attempts, with increasing desperation, to
discover who is trying to destroy him.
His quest forces him to confront the deepest questions of what it is
to be human. By the time night falls over Geneva, the financial
markets will be in turmoil and Hoffmann's world – and ours –
transformed forever.
"La dialéctica hoy se hace clara entre quienes militan por la paz y entre quienes militan por la guerra. Entre quienes militan por la abolición de todos los abusos y desigualdades y quienes militan por la explotación y las hambres..En definitiva, entre quienes militan en y para la vida y quienes militan en y para la muerte. No hay neutralidad posible. Los hombres y los pueblos han de optar por una u otra alternativa"
Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo (alcalde de Marinaleda).
El documental Marinaleda: El sueño de la
tierra de Eva Abad y Pablo García Cabrera, nos habla de la
extraordinaria historia de Marinaleda, un pueblo de Sevilla que por
medio de la lucha pacífica ha hecho realidad el viejo sueño de la tierra
para quien la trabaja. Una hazaña colectiva basada en la solidaridad,
una revolución socioeconómica en una de las regiones más atrasadas de
Europa. Marinaleda ya no solo se enfrenta con sus viejos enemigos: ahora
también debe consolidar sus logros.
Vemos momentos memorables como
la toma del Cortijo El Humoso por parte de los jornaleros de Marinaleda,
y también la lucha que durante más de 30 años han llevado a cabo los
jornaleros de Andalucía, organizados a través del Sindicato de Obreros
del Campo (S.O.C). Sus logros y el momento presente
Public lecture: Food movements,
agroecology, and the future of food and farming. Today, a billion people
live in hunger. Peak oil and environmental degradation threaten the
food security of billions more, particularly with half the world's
population living in urban environments where they are dependent on
industrially produced and imported food. A transition is urgently
needed, but how? What alternative policies can enable communities to
realise their own food security in the face of environmental challenges,
while also improving livelihoods, building resilience, and conserving
ecosystems? Many food-related movements have already emerged around the
world, but what ongoing challenges do they face?
Tony Weis gave
this talk at the University of Amersterdam in the Netherlands, on
Tuesday 13 December 2011. The event brought together three prominent
radical thinkers each with a long background of experience in activism
and academic research on transdisplinary but interconnected themes such
as conservation, agro-ecology and sustainable farming, political economy
and the social sciences:
Tony Weis, (Associate Professor of
Geography at the University of Western Ontario and author of The Global
Food Economy: The Battle for the Future of Farming), who addressed the
economic and environmental problems of the dominant chemical-industrial
food system; Miguel Altieri (Professor of Agroecology at the University
of California, Berkeley and author of Agroecology: The Science of
Sustainable Agriculture), who looked at the alternatives offered by
ecological, small scale, local and urban farming; and Eric Holt-Giménez
(Executive Director of Food First / Institute for Food and Development
Policy, and author of Food Movements Unite!: Strategies to transform our
food systems) discussed the emergence of food movements from a global
perspective, as well as the divisions between North and South, urban and
rural.
This event was co-organised by the Transnational
Institute (TNI), the Institute of Social Studies (ISS), and the Real
World Economics Group at the University of Amsterdam.
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.
