78 - Case Study, Ecuador: Listen To Martin Luther King And Learn How To Get On The Correct Side Of The World Revolution

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🗓️ 26 January 2007

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Martin Luther King, Jr. proclaimed on April 4, 1967:A true revolution of values will soon look uneasily on the glaring contrast of poverty and wealth. With righteous indignation, it will look across the seas and see individual capitalists of the West investing huge sums of money in Asia, Africa, and South America, only to take the profits out with no concern for the social betterment of the

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0:00.0	Greetings, this is podcast number 78 of Blast the Right.
0:23.8	I'm Jack Clark from TheRationalRadical.com.
0:27.4	Today we're going to continue on from last podcast and talk a bit more about global economic
0:36.9	justice from a truly progressive perspective.
0:40.8	One country in South America will be our focus.
0:44.3	Let's get right into it.
0:46.7	Last week we discussed on a macro scale global wealth inequality.
0:51.9	In the latest and most comprehensive study it was found that the richest 2% of people in
0:57.3	the world own over half the world's wealth.
1:00.7	At the other end of the spectrum half of the world's population 50% of the earth's inhabitants
1:06.8	can claim ownership of barely 1% of the world's wealth.
1:11.6	And as you might expect, fully 90% of the world's treasure is concentrated in quote North
1:17.9	America, Europe and high income Asian and Pacific countries such as Japan and Australia.
1:26.1	In other words, mostly the former colonial powers, big surprise there, huh?
1:33.4	At the end of the podcast I told you that much more so than in the United States, at least
1:39.3	so far, people around the world have been waking up and taking concrete action.
1:45.4	I promised that I would give you some examples of powerful steps being taken in some other
1:50.4	nations to achieve global economic justice.
1:54.9	That's what we'll do today.
1:57.0	My sources are the British newspapers, the independent and the guardian, the CIA Factbook,
2:03.9	AmericanReturic.com, the Christian Science Monitor, the Financial Times, the Progressive
2:09.6	Magazine and the Associated Press.
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