People's Voices: Challenging the G-20's Agenda of Corporate Globalization Video: People's Voices on the G20 Summit in Pittsburgh
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As world economic leaders met behind closed doors in Pittsburgh, Americans for Informed Democracy staff Sarah Frazer and Ethan Frey joined thousands of representatives of grassroots, national and international organizations, unions, student and faith-based groups to contest the G20's failed policies and to strengthen the movement for a sustainable new economy. Find out what the buzz was about with our original video documenting the People's Voices event series, featuring voices of the Institute for Policy Studies, Indigenous Environmental Network, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and Grassroots Global Justice. Contact Sarah@aidemocracy.org for more information on joining this global movement for economic justice.
THE PEOPLE'S TRIBUNAL
The economic development priorities of the G-20 go on trial. Hear testimony from organizers and people who have experienced devastation at the hands of these policies and decide for yourself. Are G-20 policies in violation of UN-recognized human rights?
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Ai-Jen Poo, from Domestic Workers United, speaks about growing unemployment here in the U.S. and around the world. She also speaks about the growing workers' movement that's fighting back. |
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Helena Wong, from the Committee Against Anti-Asian Violence, speaks on the G-20's corporate neo-liberal agenda and the root causes of migrant labor and exploitation. |
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Will Thompkins, from The Pittsburgh Project, speaks about Pittsburgh's struggle for local economic development, how decisions are made and how money is allocated, and lack of public participation in how development is defined. |
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Priva Hang'andu, from Jubilee Zambia, shares an international perspective on debt, who pays, who benefits, and the system of international lending that exacerbates poverty. |
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Jihan Gearon, from the Indigenous Environmental Network, speaks out against the U.S. culture of consumption and extraction, calling for an environmental and climate justice movement that ensures global well-being for all. |
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Scilla Wahrhaftig, from American Friends Service Committee Pensylvania, sheds light on the profit of war, the growing militarization of city and national budgets and international cooperation. |
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Alberto Arroyo, from la Red Mexicana de Acción Frente al Libre Comercio, shares the Mexican struggle against privatization, cuts in public service and deregulation of financial markets, and fifteen years of NAFTA. |
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Kali Okuno, from Malcom X Grassroots Organizing Committee, speaks out against criminalization poverty, the prison-industrial complex, and racism in America and across the world. |
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Mimi Yahn and Earlina Fisher, two local activists, provide a gender lese on the G20 agenda, denouncing the double and often triple impact of these policies on women. |
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Salma Mirza, from United Students Against Sweatshops, speaks truth to the state of deteriorating education in the U.S. and ways that we can educate for a better world to come. |
PANEL DISCUSSION ON THE G-20
Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz, Foreign Policy In Focus’ Emira Woods, and the Hill District Consensus Group’s Carl Redwood Jr. addressed packed pews on September 23 at the Monumental Baptist Church in Pittsburgh. The topics of discussion: How will real people will be affected by the policies promoted by the G-20? What topics should really be on the table as world economic leaders meet behind closed doors at the Pittsburgh Convention Center?
Check out the discussion and other latest news at G-Infinity Media in the Stories section.