Videos
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Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Maria-Lucia Fattorelli: “Before anything else can be done, there must be a debt audit”
17 March 2016 - by Maria Lucia Fattorelli
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Eric Toussaint: “The Greek public debt crisis is a web of lies”
17 March 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Summary of the 1 March 2016 session at the European Parliament “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”
Video: Zoe Konstantopoulou: “The Greek Debt Truth Committee’s final report scared the creditors.”
17 March 2016 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
Several members of the Greek Debt Truth Committee (GDTC) attended the session on 1st March 2016 at the European Parliament in Brussels on the topic “Restructuring of debt – reconstruction of democracy”. The session was organized by Nikolaos Chountis, Vice-minister of the first Tsipras government (January-July 2015) and MEP representing Popular (...) -
Video: The Ecuador debt audit, a seven minute summary
2 March 2016 - by Aris Chatzistefanou, Eric Toussaint, Hugo Arias Palacios
In seven minutes, Eric Toussaint and Hugo Arias, members of the Ecuadorian debt audit commission that sat in 2007 - 2008, summarise its ins and outs, and explain the success of the suspension of payments that Ecuador decided as a result of the commission’s report. If you want to know more about the situation in Ecuador in the years before (...) -
Video: Somnambulism: Debt Zombies
15 February 2016 - by ODG (Observatorio de la Deuda en la Globalización)
#Somnambulism shows us how debt is devouring our societies, affecting our physical and psychological conditions and breaking our communty by imposing an illegitimate and unsustainble burden. From low income countries indebted with rich countries, to families or students not able to pay their loans, debt is a problem that affects us all across (...) -
Videos: Documentary series about the TTIP
10 February 2016 - by Art.35 Films
Documentary series about the TTIP, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, which the United States and the European Union are negotiating. TTIP: The privatizacion of justice TTIP: Energy and climate change TTIP: A corporate governance TTIP: The countryside gone into (...) -
Human rights law beyond borders: Confronting austerity in Greece
21 January 2016 - by Margot E. Salomon
Margot Salomon has played a key role in documenting international responsibility for the human rights violations resulting from the austerity conditions imposed on Greece following the debt crisis. Dr Salomon’s research was based on her involvement in the development of the Maastricht Principles which define states’ obligations for human rights (...) -
Video: Greece falls prey to ECB diktats and blackmail
19 January 2016 - by Eric Toussaint
The following video shows a talk given at the European Parliament in Brussels by Eric Toussaint on 14 January 2016 on the occasion of the international meeting organized by the left-wing European Parliamentary Group GUE/NGL (European United Left/Nordic Green Left). The theme was “The ECB, Europe’s unelected government” (For the full programme, (...) -
Ludovica Rogers at the European Citizens’ Assembly on debt
12 January 2016 - by Ludovica Rogers
Ludovica Rogers is part of Debt Resistance Uk, a collective formed by activists and researchers in order to challenge the political narrative surrounding the debt. This group is based in London and it is a great example of popular campaign against illegitimate debts. Here we share the speech by Ludovica Rogers at the European Citizens’ Assembly (...) -
This is not a coup
18 December 2015 - by Infowar Productions
Infowar Productions, creator of the documentaries Debtocracy (2011), Catastroïka (2012) and Fascism Inc. (2014) is preparing its fourth project on the role of the EU, and particularly ECB, in undermining democracy in Europe. The new documentary describes ECB’s financial interventions in states like Italy, Ireland, Portugal, Cyprus and Greece. (...) -
Video: Eric Toussaint on Debt dependency of the third world countries as a mean of control over their development and resource
4 December 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Eric Toussaint described how the debt bondage leads different countries to underdevelopment. He cited examples of the opposite policies as well: success stories of states that defied recommendations imposed by the IMF and the World Bank. After a long-lasting audit of the odious debt, the leftist government of Ecuador defaulted, thus freeing (...) -
Sen. Bernie Sanders: From Greece to Puerto Rico, the Financial Rules Are Rigged to Favor the 1%
15 November 2015 - by Democracy Now
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders recently convened a panel of economists in Washington to discuss the debt crisis in Greece and throughout the world. In his opening statement, Sanders talked about the debt crisis in Greece as well as in Puerto Rico. “It is time for creditors to sit down with the governments of Greece and Puerto (...) -
Zoe Konstantopoulou at the European Citizens’ Assembly on debt
19 October 2015 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
In Greece as everywhere else, debt is an instrument to subject the people to the interest of the wealthy. In the name of debt, the Troïka and the Eurogroup have forced Greece to continue to implement austerity policies. However, many movements throughout Europe refuse to bow to the blackmail, and are now looking for alternatives. Debt audits (...) -
Together we can cool the planet!
18 October 2015 - by GRAIN, La Via Campesina
For many years, La Vía Campesina and GRAIN have been telling the world about how the agroindustrial food system causes half of all greenhouse gas emissions. But the world’s governments are refusing to face these problems head on, and the Paris Summit in December is approaching without any effective commitment to doing so on their part. This (...) -
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Greece: Why Capitulate?
10 September 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
Chapter titles: The Citizen Audit Commission of 2011 The position of SYRIZA’s leadership regarding the citizen audit committee of 2011 SYRIZA’s program in the legislative elections of May-June 2012 Late 2012: SYRIZA’s leadership moderates its positions October 2013: Alexis Tsipras calls for a European conference on public debt SYRIZA becomes (...) -
Zoe Konstantopoulou’s speech at the United Nations Headquarters in New York
3 September 2015 - by Zoe Konstantopoulou
Zoe Konstantopoulou’s speech was given during the Fourth World Conference of Speakers of Parliament on 2nd September in New York -
“We Are La Via Campesina”
27 August 2015 - by La Via Campesina
La Via Campesina, the international peasant movement, is happy to release a new Video. In this video, men and women, leaders of La Via Campesina member organizations in Africa, Latin America, Asia and Europe share their struggles and fight for food sovereignty, social and climate (...) -
Eric Toussaint’s speech at the presentation of the preliminary report of the Truth Committee
11 August 2015 - by Eric Toussaint
The Committee for the Truth on the Greek public debt presented its first findings in June 2015. Éric Toussaint, who coordinates the Committee’s works, summed them up during a public session of the Greek Parliament on 17 June 2015. It was a historic moment as the Greek government attended the session, along with Greek and foreign MPs (from Spain, (...) -
Video : Debt crisis in Greece and in the EU
13 July 2015 - by Dimitris Papadimoulis, Eric Toussaint, Michael Hudson
Conference by Eric Toussaint (CADTM) and Michael Hudson (Levy Economics Institute, USA) coordinated by Dimitri Papadimoulis (MEP Syriza, vice president of the EU Parliament) July 2nd 2015 - Brussels, European Parliament. -
Audit the debt, cancel it!
8 July 2015 - by Aris Chatzistefanou
The Hellenic Parliament established the Truth Committee on Public Debt in April 2015, mandating the investigation into the creation and growth of public debt, the way and reasons for which debt was contracted, and the impact that the conditionalities attached to the loans have had on the economy and the population. The Truth Committee has a (...)
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