#rob_wallace

Building an internationalist response to Coronavirus
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Sonia Shah, award-winning investigative science journalist and author of Pandemic: Tracking contagions from Cholera to Ebola and Beyond (2017).
Luis Ortiz Hernandez, public health professor in UAM-Xochimilco, Mexico. Expert on social and economic health inequities.
Benny Kuruvilla, Head of India Office, Focus on the Global South, working closely with Forum For Trade Justice.
Mazibuko Jara, Deputy Director, Tshisimani Centre for Activist Education, helping to coordinate a national platform of civic organisations in South Africa to confront COVID-19.
Umyra Ahmad, Advancing Universal Rights and Justice Associate, Association for Women’s Rights in Development (AWID), Malaysia

#internationalisme

The coming global recession: building an internationalist response

Recording of a TNI-hosted webinar on Wednesday, 8 April with Professor Jayati Ghosh, Quinn Slobodian, Walden Bello and Lebohang Pheko on the likely global impacts of the economic fallout from the Coronavirus and how we might be better prepared than the 2008 economic crisis to put forward progressive solutions.

The webinar explored what we can expect in terms of a global recession that many predict could have bigger social impacts than the virus itself. How should we prepare? What can social movements learn from our failures to advance alternative progressive policies in the wake of the 2008 economic crisis?

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiP5qJhHsjw&feature=emb_logo

Panellists:

Professor Jayati Ghosh, award-winning economist Jawaharlal Nehru University, India. Author of India and the International Economy (2015) and co-editor of Handbook of Alternative Theories of Economic Development, 2018.
Quinn Slobodian, associate professor of history, Wellesley College. Author of Globalists: The End of Empire and the Birth of Neoliberalism (2018)
Walden Bello, author of Paper Dragons: China and the Next Crash (2019) and Capitalism’s Last Stand?: Deglobalization in the Age of Austerity (2013)

Lebohang Liepollo Pheko, Senior Research Fellow of Trade Collective, a thinktank in South Africa that works on international trade, globalisation, regional integration and feminist economics

#récession #crise_économique

A Recipe for Disaster: Globalised food systems, structural inequality and COVID-19

A dialogue between Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and agrarian justice activists from Myanmar, Palestine, Indonesia and Europe.

The webinar explored how globalised industrial food systems set the scene for the emergence of COVID-19, the structural connections between the capitalist industrial agriculture, pathogens and the precarious conditions of workers in food systems and society at large. It also touched on the kind of just and resilient food systems we need to transform food and agriculture today?

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9A6WkeqPss&feature=emb_logo

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Panellists:

Rob Wallace author of Big Farms Make Big Flu and co-author of Neoliberal Ebola: Modeling Disease Emergence from Finance to Forest and Farm.
Moayyad Bsharat of Union of Agricultural Work Committees (UAWC), member organization of La Via Campesina in Palestine.
Arie Kurniawaty of Indonesian feminist organization Solidaritas Perempuan (SP) which works with women in grassroots communities across the urban-rural spectrum.
Sai Sam Kham of Metta Foundation in Myanmar.
Paula Gioia, peasant farmer in Germany and member of the Coordination Committee of the European Coordination Via Campesina.

#inégalités #agriculture #alimentation

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#livre:
Big Farms Make Big Flu

In this collection of dispatches, by turns harrowing and thought-provoking, #Rob_Wallace tracks the ways #influenza and other pathogens emerge from an agriculture controlled by multinational corporations. With a precise and radical wit, Wallace juxtaposes ghastly phenomena such as attempts at producing featherless chickens with microbial time travel and neoliberal Ebola. While many books cover facets of food or outbreaks, Wallace’s collection is the first to explore infectious disease, agriculture, economics, and the nature of science together.

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Taking Health back from Corporations: pandemics, big pharma and privatized health

This webinar brought together experts in healthcare and activists at the forefront of struggles for equitable universal public healthcare from across the globe. It examined the obstacles to access to medicines, the role of Big Pharma, the struggles against health privatisation, and the required changes in global governance of health to prevent future pandemics and bring about public healthcare for all.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KSIRFYF3W8&feature=emb_logo

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Panellists:

Susan George, Author and President of the Transnational Institute
Baba Aye, Health Officer, Public Services International
Mark Heywood, Treatment Action Campaign, Section27 and editor at the Daily Maverick
Kajal Bhardwaj, Independent lawyer and expert on health, trade and human rights
David Legge, Peoples Health Movement Moderator: Monica Vargas, Corporate Power Project, Transnational Institute

#santé #big-pharma #industrie_pharmaceutique #privatisation #système_de_santé

States of Control – the dark side of pandemic politics

In response to an unprecedented global health emergency, many states are rolling out measures from deploying armies and drones to control public space, to expanding digital control through facial recognition technology and tracker apps.

This webinar explored the political dimension of state responses, particularly the securitisation of COVID-19 through the expansion of powers for military, police, and security forces. It examined the impact of such repression on certain groups who are unable to socially distance, as well as how digital surveillance is being rolled out with little, if any democratic oversight.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4KI515hJud8&feature=emb_logo

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Panellists:

Fionnuala Ni Aolain, UN Special Rapporteur on the Protection and Promotion of Human Rights while Countering Terrorism, University of Minnesota
Arun Kundnani, New York University, author of The Muslims are Coming! Islamophobia, extremism, and the domestic War on Terror and The End of Tolerance: racism in 21st century Britain
Anuradha Chenoy, School of International Studies in Jawaharlal Nehru University (retired), and author of Militarisation and Women in South Asia
María Paz Canales, Derechos Digitales (Digital Rights campaign), Chile

#contrôle #surveillance #drones #reconnaissance_faciale #démocratie

ping @etraces

A Global Green New Deal

This sixth webinar in our COVID Capitalism series asked what a truly global #Green_New_Deal would look like. It featured Richard Kozul-Wright (UNCTAD), and leading activists from across the globe leading the struggle for a just transition in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbNhmPXpSAA&feature=emb_logo

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Panellists:

Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development, author of Transforming Economies: Making Industrial Policy Work for Growth, Jobs and Development
Karin Nansen, chair of Friends of the Earth International, founding member of REDES – Friends of the Earth Uruguay
Sandra van Niekerk, Researcher for the One Million Climate Jobs campaign, South Africa

#transition

Proposals for a democratic just economy

Outgoing UN rapporteur, #Philip_Alston in conversation with trade unionists and activists in Italy, Nigeria and India share analysis on the impacts of privatisation in a time of COVID-19 and the strategies for resistance and also constructing participatory public alternatives.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6-IvJq9QJnI&feature=emb_logo

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Panellists:

Philip Alston, outgoing UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights
Rosa Pavanelli, General Secretary of the global union federation Public Services International (PSI)
Aderonke Ige, Our Water, Our Rights Campaign in Lagos / Environmental Rights Action /Friends of The Earth Nigeria
Sulakshana Nandi, Co-chair, People’s Health Movement Global (PHM Global)

#privatisation #participation #participation_publique #résistance

Feminist Realities – Transforming democracy in times of crisis

An inspiring global panel of feminist thinkers and activists reflect and discuss how we can collectively reorganise, shift power and pivot towards building transformative feminist realities that can get us out of the worsening health, climate and capitalist crises.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XFEBlNxZUAQ&feature=emb_logo

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Panellists:

Tithi Bhattacharya, Associate Professor of History and the Director of Global Studies at Purdue University and co-author of the manifesto Feminism for the 99%.
Laura Roth, Lecturer of legal and political philosophy at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Barcelona, member of Minim Municipalist Observatory and co-author of the practice-oriented report Feminise Politics Now!
Awino Okech, Lecturer at the Centre for Gender Studies at School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London who brings over twelve years of social justice transformation work in Eastern Africa, the Great Lakes region, and South Africa to her teaching, research and movement support work.
Khara Jabola-Carolus, Executive Director of the Hawaii State Commission on the Status of Women, co-founder of AF3IRM Hawaii (the Association of Feminists Fighting Fascism, Imperialism, Re-feudalization, and Marginalization) and author of Hawaii’s Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for COVID-19.
Felogene Anumo, Building Feminist Economies, AWID presenting the #feministbailout campaign

#féminisme

COVID-19 and the global fight against mass incarceration

November 3rd, 2015, Bernard Harcourt (Columbia Law School) and Naomi Murakawa (Princeton) present rival narratives about mass incarceration in America. In The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order , Harcourt shows the interdependence of contract enforcements in global markets and punitive authority. InThe First Civil Right: How Liberals Built Prison America, by contrast, Murakawa traces prison growth to liberal campaigns and progressive legislation. Together, Murakawa and Harcourt offer fresh ideas about into the political, economic and ethical dimensions of mass incarceration.

▻https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLeXbi4aIno&feature=emb_rel_pause

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Olivia Rope, Director of Policy and International Advocacy, Penal Reform International
Isabel Pereira, Principal investigator at the Center for the Study of Law, Justice & Society (Dejusticia), Colombia
Sabrina Mahtani, Advocaid Sierra Leone
Maidina Rahmawati, Institute of Criminal Justice Reform (ICJR), Indonesia
Andrea James, Founder and Exec Director, and Justine Moore, Director of Training, National Council For Incarcerated and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, USA

#prisons #emprisonnement_de_masse #USA #Etats-Unis

De nombreux épidémiologistes ayant constaté un lien entre déforestation, élevage industriel et multiplication des zoonoses (maladies transmises par un animal) depuis une cinquantaine d’années dans les zones intertropicales (VIH-1, Nipah, etc.), certains, comme l’épidémiologiste américain #Rob_Wallace, ont transposé, sans enquête préalable [sic !] , l’établissement de ce lien sur le cas du Covid-19. L’autre thèse, apparue dès la fin du mois de janvier dans la presse et les réseaux sociaux chinois, est celle d’une fuite accidentelle dans l’un des deux laboratoires de virologie P2 ou P4 de Wuhan où des études sur le coronavirus de chauve-souris étaient menées. Suite à la révélation dans le Washington Post du 14 avril, de câbles diplomatiques américains constatant des problèmes de sécurité en 2018 dans ces laboratoires, ces soupçons, là aussi sans enquête préalable [re sic !], ont été relayés mi-avril par l’administration américaine, les gouvernements britannique et français.

Quoiqu’il en soit, le virus est le déclencheur mais pas la cause de l’aggravation de la situation de crise structurelle et globale déterminée de manière sous-jacente par la contradiction interne dont nous avons parlé. Comme expression des contradictions internes accumulées par le régime d’accumulation aujourd’hui structurellement fixé sur l’anticipation de la production de survaleur future au travers d’un endettement généralisé, la crise sanitaire est l’expression et le vecteur d’une crise déjà à l’œuvre, dont elle ne fera qu’accélérer le cours.

Traduit en bon français : c’est la criiiiise !

Il fallait bien un bouquin pour nous le rappeler, sinon, on ne s’en serait pas aperçu...

Ce qui est vraiment remarquable dans cette prose jargonneuse et répétitive, c’est l’indifférence totale à la réalité concrète des phénomènes : ils ne sont là que pour confirmer l’excellence de la prétendue « théorie critique » qui les relègue au second plan.

On se demande où et quand nos théoriciens font des « enquêtes préalables » dans le monde tel qu’il ne va pas...

Quoiqu’il en soit, « rien qui ne soit vraiment percutant ». La WertKritik « prêche pour sa paroisse », une fois de plus.

#cuistrerie

Si la prise de conscience qu’on marche sur la tête nous amène vers le genre de merde ci-dessous, on n’est pas sorti de l’auberge ! J’attends des convergences avec des vegans anti-indus mais c’est un front secondaire visiblement.

Manger végan pour prévenir de futures pandémies ?
▻https://www.msn.com/fr-fr/lifestyle/nutrition/manger-v%c3%a9gan-pour-pr%c3%a9venir-de-futures-pand%c3%a9mies/ar-BB119urE?ocid=st
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La meilleure chose que chacun de nous puisse faire pour endiguer le développement de nouvelles pandémies est de faire la transition au niveau sociétal vers un mode d’alimentation qui ne serait pas basé sur l’élevage et le confinement d’animaux. Chacune et chacun de nous peut s’inscrire dans ce changement en évitant la viande et en choisissant à la place des repas sains, éthiques et sans produits animaux.

@antonin1

Bon sang, mais c’est bien sûr ! Pourquoi n’y avons-nous pas pensé plus tôt !! C’est pourtant si simple !!!

Plus simple que d’abolir le capitalisme ?

Tout y est, @tranbert : zéro réflexion sur l’agri ou la technique, politique des petits gestes. Miam !