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18.08.2012

Libro: La economía no existe

https://n-1.cc/pg/bookmarks/read/1420836/a-economa-non-existe

Antonio Baños Boncompain es el autor de este texto qe según dice:

"es un libelo en el noble sentido de la palabra: una máquina propagandística que nace de la rabia y que no ofrece soluciones, sino una crítica despiadada contra la religión llamada economía, que ha hecho de nuestra civilización una de las más penosas de la historia…

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06.08.2012

In Debt we trust

in god we trust, the rest pay cash

source: https://diasp.org/posts/1278215

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30.07.2012

Money rulez

one more picture debt related

meme source: https://diasp.org/posts/1267415

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02.07.2012

Discurso del Presidente de Uruguay José Pepe Mujica en Río+20- 2012

"Es necesario darse cuenta de que la crisis del agua y de la agresión al medio ambiente implica revisar la manera de vivir y dejar de estar inmersos en la sociedad de consumo y en la cultura del úselo y tire."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Xj17z628Bo

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28.06.2012

Violencia en México en tiempos electorales

La información en la sociedad mexicana es importante para poder entender los sistemas de poder que oprimen al pueblo mexicano .
Este video que es parte de una serie de videos de Vice, es una mirada inteligente que denuncia lo que los sistemas de poder desde el estado hasta la delicuencia organizada se apoderan y violentan a la sociedad mexicana.
Esta mirada es una de tantas que estaremos comp…

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18.06.2012

Greece says "yes" to DEBT... and Memefest Friendly competition works evaluation goes in to final round!

Still, 26,9 % of the votes went to the "Siriza" party that opposes the debt driven politics enforced by EU and led by Germany. The pro debt politics oriented party "New Democracy" received 29,6 % of votes and is now building a coalition that will try to make sure the austerity measures will continue to enslave Greeks. But this is bad luck, because 55% of the voters actually voted for parties that…

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07.06.2012

DEBT: the right for education, affect, everyday life and solidarity with (student) protests in Montreal

While exciting works you have submitted to this years Memefest Festival, are being curated, here more on DEBT. It seems like the overwhelming tsunami like impact of Debt is being more and more reflected. Student protests like the ones in Montreal are doing a great deal to fight the devastating effects of debt regimes, together with theoretical reflections and communicative / artistic investigatio…

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15.05.2012

Indebted, Conversations in Political Economy with Maurizio Lazzarato (Paris)

Thursday, 31 May, 5pm, NAB LG01, A Goldsmiths' Centre for Cultural Studies event, with support from Departments of Anthropology and Sociology

In the current economic crisis we have entered into a new age of debt. In
spite of emergency loans, bailouts and liquidity injections, waves of
defaults, bankruptcies and capital drains have left the world economy
without cash. Governments, firms,…

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05.05.2012

In Debt as communicators?

David Graeber author of Debt- first 5000 years, one of the texts we use in this years Friendly competition outlines, is interviewed by Uprising Radio. Graeber speaks about the history of Debt, its current role and also about the Occupy movement in which he was involved from the very beginning.

The other video is his lecture on the same theme. Both are very well worth watching. Graeber is a in…

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21.04.2012

DEBT: Bankrupt banks, nationalise financial system, write off personal debt, occupy economics departments of universities

Economist Steve Keen ("As an economist, I do something very unusual: I treat money seriously.") is one of the few economists to have predicted the global financial crisis and now he says we are already in a Great Depression. He says the way to escape it is to bankrupt the banks, nationalise the financial system and write off people's debt.

Keen speaks also about the impact of economic universi…