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Ten years later: challenges and proposals for another possible world

The WSF must work to strengthen and deepen the alliance of social movements with environmental campaigners, that was forged in Copenhagen, and broaden the alliance to include peace and conflict organisations as well.

 

La crise, et après? Agir pour la reprise, inventer un nouveau modèle (Video)

Séance plénière de l'université d'été de Parti Socialiste. Animé por Laurent Fabius.

Contribution to the Vienna Conference of the Club of Rome, 16-17 April 2009

"All for ourselves and nothing for other people seems in every age of the world to have been the vile maxim of the masters of mankind," said Adam Smith in The Wealth of Nations. Either we learn to keep the market but eliminate the rapacity and environmental destructiveness of globalised capitalism or it will destroy us.

The problem isn't beef, bananas, cultural diversity, or the patenting of life: the problem is the WTO

Somebody sent me this "oldie but goodie" they wanted permission to quote. I'd forgotten all about this ten-year old piece but in fact things haven't changed that much.

Salon Terre! : « Élever la conscience écologique »

Susan George, figure de proue de l'altermondialisme, interviendra dans le débat sur la crisis au palais des congrès. Sa vision de l'état du monde est franchement décapante.

The global crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy

Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts.

Debating Europe: The Global Crisis, solutions, and implications for EU Trade Policy (video)
Talk of the dangers of trade protectionism is used by European politicians to obscure the need for protection from transnational corporations whose control of European trade policy continues to cause negative social and environment impacts. Susan George and Myriam Vander Stichele debate MEP Ignasi Guardans and Chief Economist DG Trade, Gaspar Frontini, in TNI's Debating Europe series.
È possibile sradicare la povertà

Non si può uscire dalla crisi economica senza uscire da quella ambientale, sostiene Susan George, e propone «keynesianesimo verde» come via d'uscita.

Clean start

There has been a long, silent monetary coup d’état that has transferred value away from labour into the hands of capital, but the current crisis offers a window of opportunity for transforming the economy.

A new, green, democratic deal

Susan George and Walden Bello debate how to resolve the impact of the economic, social and climate crises.

Casino Crash: the end of neo-liberalism? (Video)
Does the greatest financial crisis since the Wall Street crash of 1929 mean that the 'capitalism as we know it' has reached its end? TNI panelists analyse the causes and consequences of the on-going global financial crisis and discuss its profound implications for a changed world order.
Challenges of the 21st century

We can resolve the multiple crises facing us by financing total conversion of our system towards an ecological carbon-free energy system.

Examining relationships between European Union policies and migratory pressures

Instead of relying on the border police, the EU should assess the effects of its own policies on the poor, migrant-sending countries. Unless the policies that perpetuate the conditions for poverty and injustice are changed, the reasons for migration will remain.

Transforming the Global Economy: Solutions for a Sustainable World
The crisis that we are seeing today is not only the financial crisis - this is only one aspect of a much bigger systemic crisis that encompasses the social crisis, or crisis of inequality, the financial and the ecological crises, says Susan George in this video lecture, and suggests radical reforms that would create more just wealth distribution while saving the economy and the environment: an environmental Keynesianism.

Une économie écologique pour sortir de la crise
Susan George décrit le «piège triangulaire» social, financier et écologique en train de se refermer sur l’humanité, et propose des issues originales pour s’en échapper, inspirées d’un keynésianisme d’un genre nouveau.

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Le monde est assailli de crises et, comme
chacune de celles-ci renforce et aggrave les
autres, il est utile de les penser structurellement
comme formant un triangle.

Dehors la droite!

L'intellectuelle militante Susan George débarque à Montréal avec armes et bagages

Figure de proue de l'altermondialisme, personnalité fondatrice d'ATTAC, Susan George débarque ces jours-ci à Montréal avec armes et bagages. Évidemment qu'elle espère que le démocrate Barack Obama sera élu président mardi prochain. Autrement plus conservateur qu'elle s'est mis à le souhaiter aux États-Unis. La crise financière? «Une possibilité de restructuration citoyenne de l'économie.»

Patience et longueur de temps.

We must think big
Susan George is known for her critiques of corporate-driven globalisation and hard-hitting books on hunger, development and debt. Now,she argues, we can borrow lessons from the early 1940s to transform our shattered economies and halt runaway climate change before it’s too late

Our poor battered world is beset by

multiple crises. There is mass poverty,

and growing inequality within and between

rich and poor countries.

Predictable Poverty: The Inevitable Legacy of a Neo-Liberal Europe

The requirements for reducing or eliminating poverty, in Europe and world-wide, are known and the money is there, but the weight of the financial lobby is such that political will at present seems non-existent.

"Sozialismus für Reiche"

Die Globalisierungskritikerin Susan George fordert, die Rettung des Finanzsektors an staatliche Auflagen zu knüpfen. Nötig sei ein ökologischer Keynesianismus.

Transforming the Global Economy: Solutions for a Sustainable World

The current financial crisis provides the ideal opportunity to implement tax reforms that would finance the conversion to eco-friendly industry: an environmental Keynesianism that would pull the world out of economic ruin and social chaos while getting the runaway global financial system under control.

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