Stop Speculators from Driving Up World Food Prices: how workers and university students can make a difference

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Workshop Information
Event Date: 
Thu, 06/24/2010 - 1:00pm - 3:00pm
Event Location: 
UAW Building: Ford
Full Description: 

Remember $4 gasoline, $145 barrels of oil and high food prices causing riots around the world? A big reason for those high prices was big investors like pension funds and university endowments who poured billions of dollars into the commodity futures markets. Learn what happened, why we are still in danger of more food bubbles, and about the growing campaign that will change the situation. Workers and students around the country are beginning to pressure the managers of their pension funds and university endowments to stop speculating on commodities. See how you can be a part of this growing campaign.

Organizer Name: 
David Kane
Organizer Email: 
dkane@maryknoll.org
First Sponsoring Organization Name: 
Maryknoll For Global Concerns
Language(s): 
English
Tracks: 
Capitalism in Crisis: tearing down poverty, building economic alternatives & a solidarity economy
Strategies for Building Power & Ensuring Community Needs (housing, education, jobs, clean air…)
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