Eco-justice
This collection contains materials from movements, organizations and activists interested in creating a more equitable distribution of environmental benefits and burdens and promoting systems and policies of sustainability and resource management.
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Date: 1/1/1999Call Number: KP 279BFormat: Cass BProducers: National Radio Project, Corporate Watch, Insitute for Public AccuracyCollection: Eco-justice
Recorded before the WTO Summit in Seattle in 1999. Speakers Norman Soloman and Julie Light moderate brief interviews and clips from a number of activists who have are critical of the WTO and the dissolution of trade barriers. Arif Jamal, a Sudanese scholar and activist, speaks about farmers and agriculture. Colin Raja, a Malaysian national in the US, discusses inflation and Malaysian economic collapse. Kevin Danaher, author of 10 Reasons to Abolish the IMF and World Bank, discusses who gets representation at the summit. Paige Fischer of the Pacific Environment and Resource Center speaks about the timber lawsuit against US trade representatives and the Department of Commerce that her organization filed. Peter Rosset, executive director of Food First, Oakland, presents the problem of access to food that has manifested because of free trade and deregulation. There is also a clip from Renato Ruggiero, former director general of the WTO.
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