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Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics – ARCHIVE

By MariaJuly 19, 2016All Time Favorites, Banking, Newest Catalog Items

Marilyn Waring was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment.
At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a [ . . . ]

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Who’s Counting – Marilyn Waring on Sex, Lies and Global Economics (ONE of TWO) – ARCHIVE

By MariaJuly 12, 20162016

A TUC Radio classic on the destructive power of endless economic growth
Marilyn Waring was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. This GDP system counts only cash transactions in the market and recognizes no value other than money. This means there is no value to peace and to the preservation of the environment.
At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings [ . . . ]

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TUC Radio LIVE recordings

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Live Recordings

Maria Gilardin is taping many more interesting events than fit into the weekly schedule. Here are a few unedited, LIVE recordings that represent the rich cultural and political life of the Bay Area and beyond.
Helen Caldicott
Lecture In Mill Valley on April 11/2002
Helen Caldicott’s book, The New Nuclear Danger, has been released and she is now on a book tour. This talk before an overflow audience drew an enthusiastic response. (unedited recording)
code: A201 To order a copy click here: $8.00
Helen Caldicott
Lecture In Berkeley on January 25/2002
Helen Caldicott is back from Australia and now campaigns against the new STAR WARS, as well as nuclear and laser weapons in space. (unedited recording)
code: A202 To order a copy click here: $8.00
Greg Palast
The [ . . . ]

By MariaJuly 11, 20169/11

March 26-28, 2004 Herbst Theater, San Francisco
Conference audio tapes of all sessions (LIVE, unedited)
NOTE: Some of the material below was used to produce the 13 Part radio series above.
March 26
Friday Afternoon Session
The 9-11 truth movement. Carol Brouillet/ Report on the Berlin 9-11 conference. Nicholas Levis/ Where we are now. Barrie Zwicker/ Historical context. Gray Brechin/ The Bush family and the Nazis. Webster Tarpley
code: 9-11-1 To order two cassette tapes click here: $18.00
March 26
Friday Evening Session
Reichstag Fire, song by David Rovics/ The ’93 WTC attacks. Joseph Calhoun / Special Operations. Mark Taylor / What didn’t happen on 9-11. Mike C. Ruppert / Blueprint for World Domination. Bruce Gagnon
code: 9-11-2 To order two cassette tapes click here: $18.00
March 27
Saturday Morning [ . . . ]

The International Forum on Globalization

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Globalization

Welcome to the IFG page Updated May 22, 2006

The International Forum on Globalization held the first-ever Teach-In on the issue of globalization in New York (1995), followed by Washington, DC, (1996), Berkeley (1997), Seattle (1999) and New York (2002). TUC Radio distributes radio programs and conference tapes of these IFG events. I was present at all these Teach-Ins and many of the behind the scenes brainstorming sessions and dedicated the first eight years of TUC Radio production to globalization

These recording are still being used by writers and scholars. I am maintaining the full listings for future research.

Jerry Mander, Director and founder of the IFG, wrote into my copy of the
IFG publication: Alternatives to Economic Globalization

For my dear friend Maria –
You [ . . . ]

The Secret Side of Free Trade: Voices of Opposition to the GATT

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Globalization

~ The first-ever radio series on the GATT ~
From the TUC* archive (1994)
In January 1995, the deregulated free-market system, pioneered by the US and the industrialized nations of the North, became anchored in international law. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), a huge trade agreement that binds over 120 member countries and sets the rules for about 90% of world trade, will make free trade a legal and global requirement – no longer a matter of choice. In the process the GATT was renamed the WTO.

Ronald Reagan’s Gift of GATT
code: FT 1 To order a copy click here: $8.00
Why GATT is more important than the US constitution and how the GATT connects to the IMF and World [ . . . ]

International Forum on Globalization (IFG)

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Globalization

The Social, Ecological, Cultural and Political Costs of Economic Globalization
A radio series based on the meetings of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG)
NOTE: We added a search function to our site. Since the search will only take you to the top of any page please use yourControl and the letterF key on your keyboard toFIND a key word or name that takes you directly to the entry.
“We believe that the world’s corporate and political leadership is undertaking a restructuring of global politics and economics that may be historically as significant as the industrial revolution.”
IFG Mission Statement
From the first-ever Teach-In on globalization, held at Riverside Church, New York, this series brings you up to the Berkeley event in 1997. [ . . . ]

Seed Savers Vs Monsanto – Lawrence Davis-Hollander

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Seed Sovereignty

A movement is spreading through North America and it may play a profound role in the ever clearer contradiction between corporate and community farming, between genetically modified and pure and healthy food, between monoculture and diversity. Today’s speaker, Lawrence Davis-Hollander says that finally, after the farm and gardening revival that began in the 1960 and early 70s, the seed collecting and seed saving movement is flourishing as well.
This is a rich, personal account of Davis-Hollander’s experience as collector, touching on many of the pertinent questions around seed saving, the connection to history, genetic variety, food, culture and place – and the role seed saving plays in the resistance to genetic engineering and corporate control of seeds.
For a broadcast quality mp3 [ . . . ]

Family Farmers Vs Monsanto – Attorney Daniel Ravicher

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & WaterGenetic Engineering, GMOs

Monsanto appeared in Federal District Court in Manhattan on January 31st, 2012, to have a suit dismissed that was filed by organic growers. At stake is: Can Monsanto sue farmers whose land was contaminated by pollen or seed from genetically modified plantings by their neighbors? The answer is that Monsanto has asserted their patent rights over those whose land was polluted by GMOs and continues to do so. Monsanto has to date filed 144 lawsuits against farmers in at least 27 different states for alleged infringement of its transgenic seed patents, while settling another 700 out of court.
Dan Ravicher, the attorney for the Organic Seed Growers & Trade Association and others, representing over 300,000 individuals, gave this summary of the [ . . . ]

Scientific Freedom in the Age of Biotechnology

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & Water

With Arpad Pusztai, Tyrone Hayes, John Losey and Ignacio Chapela
This program is about academic freedom, independent thinking, corporate intervention into science, the buying of academia, the collusion of regulatory agencies with the very corporations they are to oversee and maybe – most frightening of all – the invasion of the DNA, the inner spaces and the self organization of life.
Arpad Pusztai was an advocate of genetic engineering until his research with rats showed serious damage to their immune system and organ growth when they were fed with genetically engineered potatoes. He was fired from his job as Principal Scientific Officer at the Rowett Institute in Scotland, a job he had held for 30 years.
Tyrone Hayes did research on the effects [ . . . ]

Food That Kills: The Politics Of Obesity

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & Water

A panel at UC Berkeley’s School of Journalism called attention to the role of the food industry in our current obesity crisis.
The media and the food industry – even government agencies – tell us that the serious current obesity crisis is our own fault and that we need to exercise more. Of course exercise is good for us but nobody tells us that the food industry, with the help of huge government subsidies, through advertising and addictive ingredients promotes ill health by feeding us grease, sugar and starch.
There is talk of law suits targeting fast food chains patterned after the law suits against the tobacco corporations. They also claimed that there was no health risk associated with smoking. The food [ . . . ]

Fatal Harvest: Andy Kimbrell and Vandana Shiva

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & Water

Kimbrell talks about the transformation of nature via biotechnology to make life fit a dangerous system rather than changing technology to make it appropriate to life. Vandana Shiva reports on rural resistance and WTO free zones in India. Taking back the seed from the 5 corporations that now control the source of food of the planet is for her the symbol of the new freedom.
For a broadcast quality mp3 version click HERE
code: A222 To order a cassette copy click here: $8.00
code A222CD: >To order a CD click here: $10.00

Vandana Shiva: Biopirates VS The Peasants of India

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & Water

Vandana Shiva is a physicist, philosopher of science, feminist and campaigner against globalization, the patenting and ownership of life, and the WTO. She now is an internationally acclaimed speaker and author and uses her growing influence to champion the cause of the poor in India. During her speech at the University of San Francisco she spoke not about philosophy or science but of the plight of the peasants in India who see their knowledge taken away, their seeds poisoned and their local economies destroyed by multinational food corporations. The small farmers, she reports, are fighting back and declaring zones that are free of genetically modified seeds.
code: A173 To order a copy click here: $8.00
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Organic Farming and Globalization

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & Water

code: ECO 401 >To order a copy click here: $8.00
Mark Ritchie heads the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in Minneapolis. He highlights globalization’s challenge to organic agriculture. Taped at the Ecological Farming Conference, Asilomar, Calif., 1998 40 minutes

Gardens in Jail

By MariaJuly 11, 2016Food & Water

code: ECO 402 >To order a copy click here: $8.00
The love and work that make a garden grow can heal and empower a person. Cathrine Sneed is the founder of the innovative Greenhouse Project (est. 1982) at the San Francisco County Jail. Asilomar, Calif., 1998 60 minutes