Globalization & the Economic Crisis

Tuesday, February 10, 2009 - 6:00pm

Betsy Bowman & Cliff DuRand

Globalization has tied the countries of the world more closely together with trade and investment through giant transnational corporations. It has also promoted the financialization of capitalism, with billions of dollars of highly speculative financial transactions taking place daily. Consequently, the financial crisis originating in the mortgage market in the U.S. quickly spreads around the world and becomes a global crisis. The speakers discuss how globalization has operated over the last 30 years and the crisis it faces today.

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Monday, March 1, 2021 - 1:00pm

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Imperialism in the Global South: Africa and Latin America

David Barkin, Patrick Bond & Ana Garcia

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The developing face of imperialism today can be seen in the global South. The power of transnational corporations and financial capital buttressed by multinational institutions, is immense. All this is played out through imperialist/subimperialist relations between states, geopolitical tensions, internal political processes including the... Read more

Monday, March 8, 2021 - 1:00pm

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Between Classes: The Rise and Fall and Rebirth of the Labor-Intellectual Alliance

Steve Fraser

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The New Deal saw the emergence of a progressive alliance between intellectuals and unions. Roosevelt’s “Brain Trust” designed policies and programs responding to popular demands from organized workers. This shaped the political landscape of the U.S. up into the 1960s. But this alliance was broken by the 1970s as capital’s offensive against... Read more

Monday, March 8, 2021 - 4:00pm

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Four Women for Women

A Concert with Gaby Espinosa, Yaya Fuentes, Yoremen Jocobi & Gaby Perales

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A free online concert for women, and by women, to celebrate women on International Women's Day.

Wednesday, March 10, 2021 - 3:00pm

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Sistemas de Ahorro

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Quizá una de las cosas más difíciles en estos tiempos es ahorrar dinero para nuestras necesidades. A veces incluso preferimos pagar elevados intereses a un banco por un préstamo que aprender a ahorrar hasta tener lo suficiente para pagar lo que necesitamos. Leandro Lazo nos hablará de cómo hacer una cooperativa de ahorro, que a la vez nos... Read more

Sunday, March 14, 2021 - 10:30am

Organized by Ser Mujer with the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of San Miguel de Allende

Women and Sustainability

Ana Lucía Márquez

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Making connections is key to ensuring that everyone is heard. It’s so important, especially as we deal with climate change and water issues throughout Mexico. Ana Márquez works to make sure that women are taken into account at all levels of decision-making, particularly rural and indigenous women.

Monday, March 15, 2021 - 1:00pm

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Human Trafficking Today

Stephanie Bratnick

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Clinical trauma specialist Stephanie Bratnick speaks on Human Trafficking during Women’s History Month. She has worked for the UNHCR and currently runs a counter trafficking program. She has worked with asylum seekers and refugees of sexual gender-based violence.

Human trafficking is a crime that occurs in every community around the world... Read more

Wednesday, March 17, 2021 - 4:30pm

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New Masculinities

Carlos Hernández Babún

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Carlos Hernández Babún has 19 years experience in community work and pedagogy, as a teacher in academia, workshops, community interventions, and research. He has specialized in gender, sexuality, and masculinities, human rights, and peace culture with a focus on the prevention of violence.

Monday, March 22, 2021 - 1:00pm

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Black Women in the U.S. Cooperative Movement

Jessica Gordon Nembhard

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An important part of the history of cooperativism that is usually overlooked is the development of cooperative institutions and practices among African Americans. Emerging as defense against a hostile White world, this collective self-reliance has been a way to survive. Now this story of the agency of a self-conscious People is chronicled in... Read more

Sunday, March 28, 2021 - 10:30am

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Women Helping Other Women

Guadalupe Alvarez

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Is there a secret ingredient that helps women achieve success? Guadalupe Alvarez would say there’s no secret to it – it’s all about women helping other women. Guadalupe Alvarez will discuss what can be achieved when women are empowered to feel courageous and unstoppable.

Monday, March 29, 2021 - 1:00pm

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“It’s What We Do”

Joanna Kafarowski

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Food Security, Climate Change and the Role of Inuit Women in the Canadian Arctic

In many parts of the world, particularly Indigenous communities living in remote areas, food security is compromised. Food security ensures that all people at all times have both physical and economic access to the food they need. In Inuit... Read more

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Globalization & the Economic Crisis