Videos
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How do the dominant media manipulate the debt issue?
15 December 2018 - by Eric Toussaint, The Medium
Eric Toussaint talks to The Medium. The discourse in mainstream media and by governments consists of repeating that there is too much public debt, too much public expenditure, that States must pay their debts and reduce their expenditure. With the CADTM, we are raising the questions of where those debts come from, whether the objectives for (...) -
[Film] The Audit. An Enquiry into Greek Debt
20 June 2018 - by CADTM, ZinTV
18 June 2015: the Truth Committee on Greek Debt presented a preliminary report while negotiations between the newly elected Greek government and European Institutions made the headlines across the media. The Committee’s findings were that the whole of the Greek public debt was unsustainable and that the part owed to the Troika (i.e. 85% at the (...) -
Éric Toussaint: “There is a disposition in the world’s masses for radical left proposals”
7 May 2018 - by Eric Toussaint
On 16 April 2018, Éric Toussaint was invited to speak about the role of the central banks and the banking sector at a seminar organised by Sampreeti – Sanskriti, a cultural association linked to the All India Reserve Bank Employees Association (AIRBEA, the main trade union of the Indian central bank’s employees) in Kolkata, India. The conference (...) -
Binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights: press conference and action at opening of the week of mobilization in Geneva
26 October 2017 - by Karin Nansen, Radio Mundo Real
Hundreds of social movements and organizations demanded on Monday in Geneva (Switzerland) that countries commit and make substantial advances in the process of UN negotiations towards a binding treaty on transnational corporations and human rights violations. The social groups, gathered in the Global Campaign to Reclaim Peoples Sovereignty, (...) -
IMF substantial profits thanks to Greece (2010-2015)
10 July 2017 - by Dimitri Tzanninis
Ten Best Practices Yet to be Applied to the Greece Program, by Dimitri Tzanninis (former Greece Ministry of Economy and Finance, former IMF) USC Global Leadership Summit, 29-30 April 2016 Watch this video on Youtube Watch the Q&A session See the slides used by Dimitri Tzanninis during his (...) -
UNCTAD organizes a side-event of the Second Committee on Sovereign debt restructurings
27 October 2016 - by Renaud Vivien, UNCTAD
Renaud Vivien (CADTM) intervened at the special event of the second committee of the general assembly, prepared by the secretariat of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) on sovereign debt restructurings, on wednesday, october 26th 2016. Here’s the text of his intervention. Brief video conference appearance to (...) -
Zoé Konstantopoulou : “The Greek people have not surrendered”
30 September 2016 - by Rototom, Zoe Konstantopoulou
At the international reggae festival Rototom, Zoe Konstantopoulou, invited to speak, recalled that the Greek people would not give up his fight against the payment of illegitimate debt. More infos : Zoé Konstantopoulou unmasks the reality of debt in the Social Forum: “The people did not know the truth” : (...) -
The Big #TTIPALARM Festival
24 August 2016 - by Nick Dearden, Transnational Institute
Nick Dearden on why we have to fight against TTIP and CETA, and why he believes we are on the winning side. Listen to the closing speech of the Big #TTIPalarm Festival held in Amsterdam, 29 May 2016. Source: https://www.tni.org/en/article/nick-dearden-the-big-ttipalarm-festival -
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The Greek debt, a European Tragedy
22 July 2016 - by CADTM, Productions du Pavé
The animated video “ The Greek debt. a European tragedy” here presented is the result of an intense effort of sensibilisation realised by the collective “Production du Pavé” and the CADTM staff. This video intends to sum up in a simple and easy way, how Greek indebtedness grew into the outbreak of the public debt crisis of 2010. It also seaks (...) -
Hedge Funds Are Killing Off Schools In Puerto Rico
20 juin 2016 - par Brave New Films
Hedge funds that profit off of the misery of places like Puerto Rico are raking in massive dollars by forcing schools to close and making education unaffordable. -
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The Greek debt, a European tragedy
17 June 2016 - by CADTM
Teaser of the animation short film “The Greek debt, a european tragedy” that will show you another truth about the Greek crisis. Based on the report of the Truth Committee on Greek Public Debt. -
Vulture funds feed on Puerto Rico’s debt
27 May 2016 - by Partido del Pueblo Trabajador PPT
Puerto Rico is confronting vulture hedge funds that are massively buying back its debt at a fraction of the original price. These powerful financial institutions are lobbying the US Congress to impose a draconian tax board in order to secure their illegitimate profits. -
The GLOBAL Assembly of the Committee for the Abolition of Illegitimate Debts CADTM—Tunis, April 2016
18 May 2016 - by William Gaviria Ocampo
60 delegates from 29 organisations in 19 countries in Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, Europe and Asia met in Tunis from 26 to 30 April 2016 to set out our course of action and organisation for the next two years. The National Union of Bank Employees, NUBE (UNEB La Unión Nacional de Empleados Bancarios) and the National Federation of (...) -
Global Wealth Inequality
21 March 2016
If “TheRules.org” does not call to finish with capitalism, we wished to share this video on global inequalities. -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Cephas Lumina: “The Paris Club has no legitimacy”
17 March 2016 - by Cephas Lumina
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Maria-Lucia Fattorelli: “Before anything else can be done, there must be a debt audit”
17 March 2016 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Eric Toussaint: “The Greek public debt crisis is a web of lies”
17 March 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Zoe Konstantopoulou: “The Greek Debt Truth Committee’s final report scared the creditors.”
17 March 2016 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Video: The Ecuador debt audit, a seven minute summary
2 March 2016 - by Aris Chatzistefanou, Eric Toussaint, Hugo Arias Palacios
In seven minutes, Eric Toussaint and Hugo Arias, members of the Ecuadorian debt audit commission that sat in 2007 - 2008, summarise its ins and outs, and explain the success of the suspension of payments that Ecuador decided as a result of the commission’s report. If you want to know more about the situation in Ecuador in the years before (...) -
Video: Somnambulism: Debt Zombies
15 February 2016 - by ODG (Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización)
#Somnambulism shows us how debt is devouring our societies, affecting our physical and psychological conditions and breaking our communty by imposing an illegitimate and unsustainble burden. From low income countries indebted with rich countries, to families or students not able to pay their loans, debt is a problem that affects us all across (...)
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