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AUDIO
William
I. Robinson: Global Capitalism & 20th Century Fascism
WorldStreams Interview aired Wednesday 6.8.11 - 9:00-10:00 PM
The Global Financial Crisis - A Primer
Professor Barry K Gills discusses the history leading up to the credit
crunch, the financial crisis as it stands now and looks to the future
with thoughts on possible solutions. Finally, Professor Gills discusses
the lessons which can and should be learned from the global financial
crisis.
Food,
Fuel and Finance: Public Forum on Global Crisis
Forum Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Location: New York University Wagner, Rudin Forum for
Civic Dialogue
While the global financial crisis currently dominates the front pages, it has displaced global crises of fuel prices and access to food. This discussion explores the relationship between these three crises, the policy solutions necessary for an effective response, and the social transformations that will likely ensue.
With:
- Walden Bello, executive director of Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines, and author of Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy
- June Borras, Canada Research Chair in International Development Studies Saint Mary's University Halifax, Canada, co-editor of Transnational Agrarian Movements Confronting Globalization
- Barry Gills, Professor of Global Politics, Newcastle University, editor of The Clash of Globalizations: 'Empire' or 'Cosmopolis'
- Frances Moore Lappe, co-founder of the Small Planet Institute and author of Diet for a Small Planet and co-author of Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet.
VIDEO
Jerry
Harris, Open University of the Left, 11-19-2011, Chicago, IL
The Relationship between Nation-States and Democracy
Jerry
Harris: Globalization of Capitalism
Jerry Harris, Devry University professor and author of The Dialectics
of Globalization, Political and Economic Conflict in a Transnational World,
explains the growing globalization of transnational capitalism replacing
national sovereignty. Presented on November 14, 2008 at the Brecht Forum
in New York.
William
I. Robinson: The Crisis of Globalization
Presented at the University of California, Santa Barbara, January 28,
2009
Anwar
Shaikh: Our Sin of Our Era - the Massive Misery of People at Bottom of
Pyramid
Anwar Shaikh, professor at the New School for Social Research, says that
the big economic challenge of our era is not the environment, but the
poverty of the huge number of people who live at the bottom of our social
ladders. Interviewed by Daniel Erasmus at King's College, April 2010.
Richard
Wolff: Capitalism Hits the Fan, Brown University
Economist, author, Professor emeritus University of Massachusetts, Amherst,
Richard Wolff, speaks about the current economic crises, its roots and
what we can do about it. Filmed by Paul Hubbard at Brown University, Providence
RI on 12-2-09.
DVD
Capitalism Hits the Fan
Richard Wolff on the Economic Meltdown
With breathtaking clarity, renowned University of Massachusetts Economics Professor Richard Wolff breaks down the root causes of today's economic crisis, showing how it was decades in the making and in fact reflects seismic failures within the structures of American-style capitalism itself. Wolff traces the source of the economic crisis to the 1970s, when wages began to stagnate and American workers were forced into a dysfunctional spiral of borrowing and debt that ultimately exploded in the mortgage meltdown.
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Made in L.A.
Made in L.A. traces the moving transformation of three Latina garment workers
on the fault lines of global economic change who decide they must resist.
Through a groundbreaking law suit and consumer boycott, they fight to establish
an important legal and moral precedent holding an American retailer liable
for the labor conditions under which its products are manufactured. But
more than this, Made in LA provides an insider's view into both the struggles
of recent immigrants and into the organizing process itself: the enthusiasm,
discouragement, hard-won victories and ultimate self-empowerment.
