Historic Opposition to the Global Trade Agreements On May 7, 2022, I heard Hazel Henderson in a spirited one hour interview on the Ralph Nader Radio Hour. She was introduced as Nader’s personal friend and advocate for economic models that are based on principles of cooperation and sharing in our abundance. She sadly died, age 89, only two weeks after the interview.
Here is my tribute in memory of Hazel Henderson. I met her in 1993 and recorded her whenever she visited San Francisco. This is my archival recording of Hazel Henderson from the Healthy Cities and Communities Conference in SF in December 1993. She was applauded as a “world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of the award-winning book entitled, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy”.
Hazel Henderson campaigned, along with notables such as Edward Goldsmith and Ralph Nader, against the emerging trade agreements – such as NAFTA and GATT, The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade that was later renamed the World Trade Organization.
Here is my recording of Edward Goldsmith and his critique of Global Trade. In the early 1990s I had become part of a campaign to derail or fundamentally redirect the global trade negotiations – most of my radio work was done in association with the IFG, the International Forum on Globalization. I recorded Edward “Teddy” Goldsmith in 1994 and published him and Hazel Henderson in a 13 part TUC Radio series under the title: The Secret Side of Free Trade.
This re-broadcast from the TUC Radio archives of The Secret Side of Free Trade is to honor the legacy of Hazel Henderson, who died on May 22, 2022, and in honor of Edward Goldsmith who died on August 21, 2009.
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