Podcast for Saturday, September 27, 2008
27
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2008
- Ann Pettifor is executive director of Advocacy International. In the 1990s she helped design and lead the international campaign Jubilee 2000. She is editor of “The Real World Economic Outlook” (Palgrave) and author of “The Coming First World Debt Crisis” (Palgrave). This week she wrote the articles “The week that changed everything” and “America’s financial meltdown: lessons and prospects” at openDemocracy.net.
Read her blog at http://www.debtonation.org - John Atlas is founder, president and former executive director National Housing Institute. NHI is “a think tank dedicated to promoting empowerment and community building strategies that will help lead to affordable housing, urban revitalization, and an engaged civil society. NHI produces studies dealing with public housing, homelessness, employee-assisted housing, and crime prevention, and publishes Shelterforce, the oldest independent magazine dedicated to creating and preserving thriving communities”. John co-wrote the story ” Foreclosing on the Free Market: How to Remedy the Subprime Catastrophe” in the Fall issue of the New Labor Forum.
Read John’s blog at http://www.rooflines.org


