Participants from the People’s Voices on the Crisis event that took place on Saturday 20 June 2009 in New York spoke at WBAI Radio’s Building Bridges: Your Community & Labor Report on Monday, June 22, 2009 at 7 - 8 p.m. EST over 99.5 FM. Listen to the programme here
Peoples’ Voices on the International Economic Crisis
. Jana Silverman, Coordinator of Campaigns of Social Watch, an NGO network monitoring poverty eradication & gender equality,
headquartered in Montevideo, Uruguay
. Gemma Adaba, Representative, UN, International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC), New York
. Milena Kadieva, Legal Advisor & Project Coordinator, Bulgarian Gender Research Foundation, Plavdiv, Bulgaria
. Beverly Keene, Latin American Coordinator, Jubilee South Network, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Responses to the current global economic crisis have been inadequate and fail to fully address the myriad of related global crises, such as food security and climate change. An international coalition of ‘working’ people directly impacted by these crises, and civil society organizations, met in a public forum Saturday to deliver this message to world leaders in advance of this week’s UN Conference on the economic crisis being organized by Miguel D’Escoto Brockmann, the current President of the UN General Assembly (and a Sandinista liberation theology priest)
Follow what happened at the People’s Voices on the crisis:
