From the film The End of Poverty?

1. The Cycle of Impoverishment
• “Our chosen economic system always
was, and still is, financed by the poor.” —
Martin Sheen, The End of Poverty?

2. Colonialism
• The “primitive accumulation” of labor, land,
resources.

3. Empire
• Colonies as markets
• Integration of colonial economies into
national economy
• Monoculture

4. Neocolonialism
• Liberation as debt
• Displacement and war

5. Symbolic colonialism
• “A rifle in one hand and a bible in the
other”
• Market fundamentalism

6. Questions
• To what extent, if any, is capitalism
compatible with social justice? Why or why
not?

7. Questions
• To what extent, if any, is capitalism
compatible with social justice? Why or why
not?
• What would you include in the “global
commons”?

8. Questions
• To what extent, if any, is capitalism
compatible with social justice? Why or why
not?
• What would you include in the “global
commons”?
• What are the impediments to creating a
“global commons”?

9. Groups working to create a commons
• Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement
(MST)
• India’s National Slum Dwellers Federation
(NSDF)
• Coalition of Immokalee Workers (US)
• Occupy Our Homes (US)
• Jobs with Justice (US)
• NETWORK (US)
• Divest DU (right here)

10. A takeaway. . . .
• Think globally; act locally
• Also, think locally and act globally