Activist & writer on public education, human rights, tax justice, climate justice & the arts @ActionAid @globaleducation @RTEInitiative Views very much mine.
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Next, @DavidArcherAA from @ActionAid talks about how we can unlock financing for global education through changes to tax systems, debt systems, and austerity.
#CooperationForEducation
ALT The servicing of debt massively exceeds spending on education in more and more countries. David Archer, Action Aid and TES Summit, speaking at an IPNEd event.
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Despite its rhetoric, the #EU is undermining multilateral processes aiming to democratise & improve global economic governance. This hypocrisy was evident last week when it again opposed a @UN intergovernmental process on #debt architecture. Read our OpEd: euobserver.com/eu-and-the-wo…
ALT "It appears the EU is reluctant to embrace multilateralism when real decisions are at stake, yet eager to participate in symbolic side-shows ." - Iolanda Fresnillo, Eurodad
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To the UK and Global North countries, THE WORLD IS WATCHING. Meena Raman from @thirdworldnetwork on whats happening inside the halls of the #climatetalks in week 2. #ClimateJustice #HistoricResponsibility #ParisAgreement #Equity #Reparations
Dr Khayisile Litchfield Tshabalala speaking on the anniversary of Sankara's assassination... who stressed that external debt perpetuates colonial rule and blocks economic emancipation. How can you lead a country politically if you do not command your economy?
Starting in one hour - to mark the anniversary of the assassination of Thomas Sankara - join this global webinar with @ActionAid @AsianPeoplesMvt @AFRODAD2011 & allies. As Sankara observed 'Debt is a cleverly managed reconquest of Africa, aiming at subjugating its growth & devt.'
Excellent interview by Bobby Friction with @tanikagupta on BBC Radio London this evening ... you can listen here... bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0m73g…
Briggs Bomba from Trust Africa at #AfCoDD ... we must bring class analysis into the analysis of Who Owes Who? It is not the working class in UK who owe reparations. It is elite individuals and companies who are liable. This is a historic moment in building a new world order
Nombuso Mathibela at @AFRODAD2011 #AfCoDD with powerful reflections on memory. What has time taught us to anticipate in the resurgent call for reparations? What does it mean when the past persists in the present? How do we build a Pan-African feminist praxis & practice of care?
Jane Nalunga from SEATINI says beware what your country signs! Redefining future trade is a key part of reparative justice. Trade deals often force liberalisation & privatisation, perpetuate extractive models & drive indebtedness. Transform trade to transform our economies!
Jason Braganza from @AFRODAD2011 at #AfCoDD stresses that we will fall short of truly transformative reparative justice proposals if we think in silos... we must look at debt alongside wider economic justice, tax, austerity, trade, culture, feminist and gender dimensions
Molly Dhlamini from the South African union of mineworkers at #AfCoDD We are owed a debt for slave wages & the theft of dignity. We need unity, sovereignty, political consciousness, an audit of what is owed, an end to leakages & control over means of production. @AFRODAD2011
Donald Deya from the Pan African Lawyers Union (and @StopTheBleed) at @AfCoDD challenges the over-lawyerisation of action for reparative justice ... but proceeds to give compelling examples of the role of national, regional & global legal action! @AFRODAD2011
Lilian Mouan at AfCoDD talks of the crucial need to link debt to development, to tax justice, climate justice, just transition and reparations. Indeed, all struggles are now interconnected and we need an intersectional approach @AFRODAD2011 #AfCoDD #AfricaReparativeDebtJustice
At #AfCoDD in Accra, Liliane Mouan, trustee of @AFRODAD2011, calls for demystifying and democratising the debt debate. Debt drives austerity and impacts the rights and living conditions of all Africans. We need African agency and leadership for structural transformation.
Dereje Alemayehu from @GA4TJ at #AfCoDD recalls the role of the 54 African nations uniting at the UN, persuading the G77 and winning the vote at UNGA for a UN Tax Convention in 2022. Now we need to do the same for a UN Debt Convention!! @AFRODAD2011 #AfricaReparativeDebtJustice
Dereje from @GA4TJ at AfCoDD argues that you cannot treat tax and debt as silos. Progress on one and lack of progress on the other perpetuates structural injustices. We need coherence and structural transformations - achieved through the lens of reparative justice. @AFRODAD2011
Dr Lilianne Umubyeyi at AfCoDD in Accra references Sankara 'Debt is a skillfully managed colonial tool designed to subjugate Africa. We are all made into financial slaves. This is a new form of colonial violence.' #AfricaReparativeDebtJustice @TaxJusticeAfric @AFRODAD2011
Dr Liliane Umubyeyi keynote at AfCoDD 'To confront contemporary African challenges ... climate, gender, economic ... we need structural transformations and reparative justice. Colonial discrimination still scars the global architecture.' @AFRODAD2011 #AfricaReparativeDebtJustice
What a powerful opening to the African Conference on Debt and Development #AfCoDD in Accra and online ... seeking reparations for both past and ongoing colonialism & exploitation. After the failures of @FFD4 we need bold collective action for a UN Debt Convention @AFRODAD2011
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