Slave Labor Sweat-Shops and Worldwide Media Coverage
The problem of the corporate usage of dirt cheap worldwide slave labor needs adequate worldwide media coverage.Wisconsin Public Radio http://www.wpr.org/ which broadcasts live on the Internet with evening rebroadcasts—covered this slave labor sweat-shop issue this morning, 08/21/00. For the news media and anyone interested you can get a TAPE of any of their programs by calling 800-747-7444. This important slave labor tape is code number, 08 21 B. News media person inquiries should directed to Joy Cardin, the Director of the Ideas Network: Cardin@wpr.org
One of the most important things that the media can do is to cover political affairs on parity with sports reporting, oh yes they can, and they can make it every bit as interesting. We also need graphic, on-going exposé journalism in documentaries and in all forms of reality based insightful and fully comprehensive informative reporting on the political issues that directly affect our lives.
The press simply refuses to fully expose and dramatize many policy-making realities. The common interdependent economic interests' of the employee, the small businesses, and the family farm economic units must be a substantive equity source of the on-going news and information contributing sources to news media information. They need to have substantive equity of representation on all talk format programs. Only then, will we have a democratic representation of the major economic interest sector voices in our mainstream media.
We also need to establish awards for good journalism as well as exposing the worst unacceptable reporting with plaques that are so inscribed, and displayed in public and on the Internet! We need to have effective media watchdogs in every community that communicate with reporters and document their work.
The Economic Living Sustenance of Billions of Human Beings Reside within these Global Economic Policy Making Issues with millions of Lives hanging in the Balance
Nothing is more important to 6 billion human beings in our global village than an adequate opportunity to earn a livelihood. Large portions of that number have scant little opportunity to earn a decent standard of living. We must create a capitalist economic system with mutual win-win policies and practices that will remedy the existing win-lose zero—sum economic policy relationship equations.The first essential is to understand the gigantic economic production cost differentials that exist between countries, and especially between First and Third World countries. There are several types of differentials; there are the long term and rather static structural differentials that can not be easily changed or manipulated. Then, there are the economic policy making differentials of a more dynamic nature that represent the more easily manipulated economic policies of: interest rates, monetary valuations, and other regulatory types.
Additionally, there are many controlling factors and factions of a global nature, such as the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and a multiplicity of other financial and political organizations that are skewing the policy making process. Many of these lending and insuring institutions' control access to capital, and protect borrowers by attaching various conditions to access privileges. Through these controlling mechanisms, global institutions become the controllers of the economic policies of countries, which results in the loss of governing sovereignty by the people. We must fashion a model of capitalism and economic policies that will remedy these existing shortcomings and that will block these new one-sided corporate-country agreements.
The corporations with the help of the International Development Association (IDA), the International Bank For Reconstruction and Development (IBRD), the World Bank's lending policies along with the policies of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and other global financial institutions have the power to deny countries their needed loans. Also, they could call existing loans and thus have the power to force agreements on countries while bypassing citizenry involvement. That means: no available loans, no investment moneys and therefore no economy!
However, the corporate media see no reason to cover these issues. At this point in time the Corporate interest doesn't realize that they will also be enabled to prosper in on-going sustainable ways that will eliminate the problem of lack of equity of economic opportunity for all. When all sectors of an economy prosper together in a win-win economic relationship equation in compliance with ecological systems we lift the quality of life to optimal levels for everyone. This is the way to unimagined levels of genuine peace and prosperity within each country on a worldwide basis.
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Posted: 08/21/00
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