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The International Context of Global Outrage (4/5)
Common features of the various 2011 mobilizations
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Eric Toussaint
19 January 2012
In 2011 we come across several common features when looking at the Arab Spring, Occupy Wall Street or the Indignados movements in various countries. 1. Demonstrators reclaimed public space, they even settled there, they organized many marches. In the past radical actions have often started at places of work or study and involved their occupation. Although strikes and factory or school occupations did take place in some countries such as Egypt or Greece, the most common form of action (...)
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Myths and realities about economic crisis and poverty in Greece
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Christos Papatheodorou
2 November 2011
The recent global economic crisis has apparent effects on poverty and on the deterioration of the levels of living for the most vulnerable population groups. However, instead of disputing the dominant paradigm for organizing and administrating the economy, it has lead to further strengthening the neoliberal arguments for fiscal discipline, reduce of public spending, and labour market deregulation. One of the main consequences is the strong pressure for further decrease of social (...)
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United for #globaldemocracy
17 October 2011
On 15th October 2011, united in our diversity, united for global change, we demand global democracy: global governance by the people, for the people. Inspired by our sisters and brothers in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, Syria, Bahrain, New York, Palestine-Israel, Spain and Greece, we too call for a regime change: a global regime change. In the words of Vandana Shiva, the Indian activist, today we demand replacing the G8 with the whole of humanity - the G 7,000,000,000. Undemocratic international (...)
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15 October 2011: a great victory for the Outraged
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Eric Toussaint
16 October 2011
Since February 2003, this is the first time a call for an international action on a specific date has met with such an echo. In Spain, where the Indignados movement began, almost 500 000 demonstrators marched through the streets of around 80 different cities, including 200 000 or more in Madrid. Actions have taken place on five continents. More than 80 countries and almost one thousand different towns have seen hundreds of thousands of youth and adults on the march, protesting against the (...)
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The Impact of the Crisis on Women in Eastern Europe. Paper for AWID
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Ewa Charkiewcz
27 December 2010
Banks are doing well. But how much women can take? Financial crisis as the crisis of social reproduction Between 2004 and 2009 five women sales representatives and debt collectors of Provident Poland have been brutally murdered by clients whom they approached for pay back of loans to their employer. Provident Poland is a daughter company of UK based Personal International Finance, which in turn is a daughter company of Provident Financial, established in 1880 to loan to poor (...)
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Global Crisis and Current debt scenario
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Eric Toussaint
9 December 2010
Colombo – Sri Lanka 9-11 December 2010 South Asian CADTM Workshop: “Global Crisis and Current debt scenario” I. The debt of developing countries and developed countries First: which countries are we talking about? What is the size of their debt? We are talking about the countries designated as developing countries by international bodies such as the IMF, WB and OECD in the following regions: Latin America, Africa, Middle East, Asia excluding Japan and South Korea, Eastern Europe. Size (...)
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CADTM-Pakistan strategize campaign for foreign debt cancellation
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Abdul Khaliq
23 August 2010
To discuss debt crisis in the backdrop of the severe humanitarian and economic crisis, caused by the on-going devastating floods in Pakistan, CADTM-Pakistan organized a meeting of the group members and various representatives of civil society organizations on 21 August 2010, at CADTM office, 7/Egerton Road, Lahore. The meeting sole agenda was discussion on strategy to highlight and articulate demand for Pakistan’s debt cancellation. The meeting had consensus view that worst-ever floods have (...)
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USA. Heads, they win and the people lose. Tails... they continue winning and the people paying.
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Daniel Munevar
9 November 2009
During recent weeks the press has abounded with comments on the anniversary of the major events of the financial crisis of 2008. Among those significant events that have attracted more press coverage are the fall of Lehman Brothers coupled with the AIG bailout, the approval by the U.S. Congress of the TARP, as well as the forced conversion of the few remaining investment banks into commercial banks, prominently J.P. Morgan and Goldman Sachs, in order to provide these institutions with (...)
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United-States : Where is the help for the workers?
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Daniel Munevar
2 October 2009
At the onset of the worst economic crisis in the global economy since the Great Depression, employment losses are starting to mount at a dramatic pace. According to the ILO (International Labour Organization) more than 50 million workers are expected to lose their employment as a result of the crisis. An important share of these employment losses has been concentrated in the USA, locomotive of the global economy and epicenter of the recent financial meltdown. Since the first moment in (...)
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Conference at the Socialism 2009 organized by the Center for Economic and Social Change, Chicago, July 20th 2009.
The impact of the world crisis in Latin America
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Claudio Katz
4 August 2009
Thank you for this invitation and congratulations for this conference In my opinion, the effect of the world crisis in Latin America pose different types of discussion. The immediate economic effect, the political effect and the social measures required to confront the financial collapse. Economic arena The crisis has produced in Latin America a generalized collapse of the stock markets and capital out-flights that reduced credit. Commodities depreciation induces recession, unemployment (...)
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