WEJ - Information & Discussion Session
On Wednesday August 23, 2006 WEJ (World Economic Justice) held an information and discussion session.
An introduction was given by one of the WEJ founders Tegi Obamda. Tegi introduced the evening with a talk on Natural Resources being the main source of all Wealth.
- Resource plunder as the main source of poverty, enviornmental degradation, conflict wars, and misery in the world.
Wanyee Kinuthia, co-founder of WEJ talked of the New International Resource Management -- NIRMO.
-Local Direct Investment as opposed to Foreign Direct Investment
-Cooperatives as opposed to Corporations
-Fair Trade as opposed to Free Trade
-Economic Justice as opposed to Economic Exploitation
-Prosperity for all as opposed to Mass Poverty
-Sustainability as opposed to Enviornmental Degradation
The Evening was joined by Joan Kuyek (Executive Coordinator, Mining Watch Canada), Rob Clarke (Executive Director, Transfair Canada), Caitlin Peeling (La Siembra Cooperative), Richard Edwins (Africa Diaspora Coop), and Laura Macpherson (Youth Enviornmental Network, Sierra Club). 
Joan Kuyek - Mining Watch Canada
posted by World Economic Justice @ 12:34 PM
1 Comments:
At 7:26 AM,
WEJCANADA said…
Hello, this issue is the mother of all issues in the world today!. Look at the commodity prices exploding through the roof! while we still have food banks, and people sleeping uner bridges! Poverty in Canada- A country whose Prime Minister brags is a "resources superpower!?." something is a miss here! The fact is, there is double government- the public and private and any government of the day is sqaurely in middle like a kid of divorce being pulled left and right. The strongest wins even though the "weak" might be right. In this resources struggle- the people "owns" the resources but get crumbs from them. The governments of the day are simply helpless, therefore it is the people who must be educated and empowered to TAKE OVER COMPLETE ownership of their resources and then CONTRACT OUT management of these resources. The People will call for bids, the winning bidder will be paid for services BUT WILL NOT be allowed to own or control the resources ever!. The education of Citizens from Prime ministers to ordinary citizens must begin today in earnest, before total depepletion of these non-renewable resources are gone--- gone foever and we- the ordinary citizens, have nothing to show for it. Thank, Gabriel Ogada.
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