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"People before Commodities" - IFOAM Side Event at the UNFCCC Climate Change Negotiations in Bonn, Germany (AWG-KP 13 and AWG-LCA 11), that took place on Thursday, 5 August .
Date of Production:
Aug 2010
"We are often told that the poor are grateful for charity. Some of them are, no doubt, but the best amongst the poor are never grateful. They are ungrateful, discontented, disobedient, and rebellious"
Oscar Wilde
Date of Production:
Aug 2010
PARIS -- 3 June 2010 -- At a Global Subsidies Initiative (GSI) event on fossil-fuel subsidies today at the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) headquarters in Paris, New Zealand's Deputy High Commissioner to Australia, Vangelis Vitalis, speaking on behalf of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, announced the formation of a new initiative, The Friends of Fossil-Fue
Date of Production:
Jun 2010
With the outbreak of the global economic crisis, the reaction from international institutions were varied. The G20 in particular was elevated to the leaders level to develop a collective policy response. In this video, international affairs experts are asked to explain how and why the crisis has acted as a catalyst for reform of the international economic order.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
The IMF's annual spring meetings have been going on here in Washington, and we aren't neccessarily going to call it business as usual. Greece is asking for a bailout, the global economy is still in a rut, and now more than ever, the power structures within the IMF itself are being questioned and challenged.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
Finance ministers from around the world have descended on Washington, D.C. for the annual World Bank/IMF spring meetings. The annul gathering opened with the 20 finance ministers from the worlds leading economies. Top on their agenda were two new bank taxes, climate change and possible reforms to the institutions voting system.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
April 23, 2010
Riot police in Athens fired tear gas to dispel a group of protesting youths throwing stones and sticks at police following an anti-IMF demonstration. Jon Decker reports.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
Video from the Run on the Bank, the first event of the Anticapitalathon Games, cooinciding with theIMF and World Bank Spring Meetings for 2010.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
Early AM on April 24, anti-IMF/World Bank protesters stormed a hotel housing delegates to the IMF Spring Meetings.
Footage edited only for framerate, color balance, audio EQ, and to attach two whole clips together. Shot while zoomed from a VERY cheap camera.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
Democracy Now report on the contentious approval of the Eskom loan to South Africa
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
On 25 February 2010, the EIB invited Brussels-based civil society organisations (CSOs) to its Annual Briefing on the Bank's 2009 results and its prospects for 2010. EIB's Vice-President Philippe de Fontaine Vive, responsible for the Bank's relations with civil society organisations, chaired the briefing, which was held on the same day as the Bank's Annual News Conference.
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
From April 23 to April 25, DC area activists are staging the Anticapitalathon Games. People are getting in shape and preparing for this epic contest that will coincide with the annual Spring meetings of the IMF and World Bank.
There will be a Run on the Bank, anticapitialist baseball and soccer, walking tours of Washington DC,workshops, and an elegant closing ceremony
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
This video, produced by International Accountability Project and Accountability Counsel, shows the struggle of two indigenous Shipibo communities in the Peruvian Amazon, who have suffered from oil contamination and severe health impacts caused by Maple Energy plc, a multinational oil company that has received financing from the International Finance Corporation (IFC).
Date of Production:
Apr 2010
Author:
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The film focuses on the lives of the villagers of Barskon, a remote settlement in the west of Kyrgyzstan that, since 1997, has also been home to a controversial gold mine. In 1998, nearly two tons of cyanide spilled from the gold mine operations, poisoning the nearby river and leaving several people dead and hundreds seeking medical treatment.
Date of Production:
Mar 2010
Maurice Carney on the western corporate backing of Joseph Kabila and the corporate pillaging of the Congolese people's resources.
The IMF/World Bank play a key role in softening up local governments and pave the way for corporate takeovers of African countries.
Date of Production:
Mar 2010
Some of the IMF improvements included the expansion of SDRs to eastern european countries. This happened in June 2009 under Title 14 of the supplemental defense appropriation for Afghanistan. the IMF will never be the same. Title 14 in effect rewrote parts of Breton Woods.
http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Supplem...,_2009/Title_XIV
Date of Production:
Mar 2010
Utrecht, 2 February 2010. Multistakeholder Consultation on the World Bank Group Environment Strategy 2010, hosted by ICCO. Full recording of the session:
1. Presentation of the World Bank Group concept note on 2010 Environment Strategy
2. Intervention by Paul Wolvekamp (Both ENDS) and Ekko van Ierland (Wageningen University)
3. Debate and conclusions
See more on the ComPart Learning Blog
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Rick Rowden visits the World Bank InfoShop and is surprised to find his new book - "the Deadly Ideas of Neo-Liberalism" - prominently displayed inside the IMF/World Bank ..
Date of Production:
Mar 2010
The World Bank has issued a stern warning to Government to safeguard the second phase of the Northern Uganda Social Action Fund, NUSAF, that is to cost 100 million dollars.
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Author: Kweldulfur
Keywords: Iceland-Icesave
Added: February 11, 2010
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Author:
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The destruction of Haiti before the destrution.
Washington, Aristide, and the issue of the sale of state-owned enterprises
The events after early 1994 were discussed by Naomi Klein and Aristide in 2005. After that discussion, and after research assistance by Aaron Maté, the following words of Klein were published by The Nation and Now magazine:
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Author:
Baracka Productions.
Bill Nighy appears in a video backing a Robin Hood tax on banks to raise billions of pounds to fight poverty and climate change.
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Author: mrsite
Keywords: News
Added: February 9, 2010
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Author:
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On the 20th of November 2009 the Dutch NGO Both ENDS organised a Political Cafe in The Hague. In the debate a diverse panel gave their opinion on investments made by the European Investment Bank. This bank invested in a hydro-power dam in Uganda and a paper pulp mill in Brazil. In Both cases the local population and the environment were severely damaged.
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
Utrecht, 2 February 2010. Ywende Awe from the World Bank shares the main messages that emerged from the public consultation on the environment strategy hosted by ICCO.
Date of Production:
Feb 2010
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