Global Meltdown: Is another world really possible? Plenary Panel from 6 Billion Ways conference, London.
Financial markets in turmoil, energy price rises, food riots, violent conflicts and environmental disasters. And whatever the disaster, poor and marginalised people are always affected the most.... It doesn't have to be this way.
Meena Raman · Trevor Ngwane · Susan George · Tariq Ramadan · Mark Thomas · Bianca Jagger. Chair: Asad Rehman.
Exploring how every person on the planet can make change happen. 6 Billion Ways was a day in London where the arts met ideas, discussion and action to explore the causes and find solutions to these interlinked global crises.
28th February, 2009, Shoreditch Town Hall, London.
Bringing together all the strands of the day, the final plenary speakers gave their vision of how we tackle the environmental, economic and political injustices that underpin the global crisis we face. Calling for a new understanding of 'we' who can take up the challenge offered by the financial crisis to build a world where jobs, justice and the environment are prioritised over bankers' bonuses....
audio available now: http://www.archive.org/details/GlobalMeltdownIsAnotherWorldReallyPossibl...
6 Billion Ways was organised by City Circle, Friends of the Earth, Jubilee Debt Campaign, People and Planet, Rich Mix, War on Want and the World Development Movement.
