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Walden Bello WTO-IMF-World Bank & War -across room audio |
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by Paul Mueth
Email: paulmueth (nospam) yahoo.com (unverified!) |
16 Apr 2006
Modified: 09:14:32 AM |
“Empire, Crisis, and Resistance: A View from the Southâ€
A talk by Dr. Walden Bello Professor of Sociology, University of the Philippines and Executive Director, Focus on the Global South, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand |
 Bello1.mp3 (40614 k) |
THis talk was recorded wed nite April 12th it's low fi , I may post enhaqmced versions later ..
Bello is in the country for the IMF-WB spring meeting in DC, look for other material from him, including a visit to Democracy Now.
Focusweb.org features a lot of good info including a short video on HongKong WTO ministerial.
Bello played a key role in the movement to restore democracy to the Philippines during the dictatorship of Ferdinand Marcos during the 1970s and 80s. In 2003, Bello was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, or Alternative Nobel Prize in 2003, issued annually by the Swedish Parliament, for his “outstanding efforts in educating civil society about the effects of corporate globalization, and how alternatives to it can be implemented.â€
Bello received his Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton in 1975. He is currently a member of the International Council of the World Social Forum, the Board of the Transnational Institute (Amsterdam), and the Center for Economic Policy Research (Washington, DC). He is also former chair of Greenpeace Southeast Asia Board and of Greenpeace International.
  Bello has published over a dozen books, including Dilemmas of Domination: the Unmaking of the American Empire (New York: Henry, Holt, and Co, 2005); The Anti-Development State: The Political Economy of Permanent Crisis in the Philippines (Quezon City: University of the Philippines, 2004); and Deglobalization: Ideas for a New World Economy (London: Zed, 2002). His articles have appeared in Foreign Policy, Review of International Political Economy, the Columbia Journal of International Affairs, Le Monde, Le Monde Diplomatique, Race and Class, Third World Quarterly, Frontline, and La Jornada Sponsored by the Philippine and Filipino American Interests Group and the Resistance and Empire Reading Group. |
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