378) Asad Rehman: The end of imperialism in a radical green new deal

Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration

kaméa chayne

Nature, Alternative Health, Society & Culture, Philosophy, Health & Fitness, Science

4.9 • 661 Ratings

🗓️ 25 October 2022

⏱️ 63 minutes

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“Our economies globally have forced the Global South to be commodity-driven, export countries, with powerful multinationals. [The] profits that come from the exploitation of countries in the Global South flow to the Global North. As I say, imperialism is as alive today as it was then.”

In this episode, we welcome Asad Rehman, the Executive Director of the radical anti-poverty and social justice organisation War on Want. Asad is a leading climate justice activist whose work has helped to reframe the climate crisis as a crisis of neoliberal capitalism, inequality, and racism. Asad has led climate justice groups inside the UNFCCC process, and was co-founder of the Global Campaign to Demand Climate Justice, is currently coordinator of the Global Green New Deal Project and was also one of the founders of the COP26 Coalition. Over the last 35 years, he has worked with many social movements both globally and nationally including the anti-racist movement, the alter-globalisation movement, and the anti-war movement.

(The musical offering featured in this episode Tear Down The Wall by Forest Veil. The episode-inspired artwork is by Carolina Altavilla.)

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1:45.0	If you did the same map right now, you'd see the exact same commodities flowing from the global south to the global north,
1:52.0	because countries were forced to and said, you will provide and produce this commodity because we want it.
1:59.0	Not because actually it's needed by your people or it's
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