John Perkins: Want Corporate Change? Let Your Wallet Do the Talking

Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2010/02/22/John_Perkins_The_Hit_Men_Strike_Home

Can your buying habits change the world? Hoodwinked author John Perkins encourages consumers to use their buying power to support their causes. Perkins uses the example of organizing a boycott of large corporations that capitalize on foreign sweatshops.

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The current crisis is a classic hit by economic hit men (EHM) - except this time, the victims are us.

Drawing on personal experiences described in his blockbuster books (Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, The Secret History of the American Empire, and Hoodwinked), John Perkins explains how tools honed during the past four decades in developing countries are enabling the extremely rich to purchase businesses and real estate at fire sale prices; defend abolition of health care, education, and other social programs; and justify privatization of the public sector. However, crises offer opportunities.

Perkins presents a plan for transforming the economy and describes ways each of us can employ our individual passions and skills to not only prosper but also create a world we will be proud to pass on to future generations.

John Perkins has lived four lives: as an economic hit man (EHM); as the CEO of a successful alternative energy company, who was rewarded for not disclosing his EHM past; as an expert on indigenous cultures and shamanism, a teacher and writer who used this expertise to promote ecology and sustainability while continuing to honor his vow of silence about his life as an EHM; and as a writer who, in telling the real-life story about his extraordinary dealings as an EHM, has exposed the world of international intrigue and corruption that is turning the American republic into a global empire. - Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center

John Perkins spent three decades as an Economic Hit Man, business executive, author, and lecturer. He lived and worked in Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Latin America, and North America. Then he made a decision: he would use these experiences to make the planet a better place for his daughter's generation.

Today he teaches about the importance of rising to higher levels of consciousness, to waking up - in both spiritual and physical realms - and is a champion for environmental and social causes. He has lectured at universities on four continents, including Harvard, Wharton, and Princeton.

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[ONQproductions]

First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a communist;

Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—because I was not a trade unionist;

Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—because I was not a Jew;

Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

[kevintype]

For centuries, we in the developed world looked the other way and let our corporations exploit and abuse people in other countries. We thought they did it all for our benefit.

Now exploiting the rest of the world no longer satisfies their greed, and our corporations return to their birthplaces to find new targets to exploit: us. The crimes of our indifference created their own punishment.

But it is not too late to change our fate, as Perkins and others are trying to tell us.

[lorrieweast]

thanks for the info =) like!

[mmfincon]

John Perkin, I am impress with your Courage , Honesty and Intergrity .It is Spiritual and Inspirational . To me, this is what the teaching of most World Religions is suppose to be about. Love to learn more

Adios mi Amigo ... Adelente ... From an Old time Comm. Organizer PR

[mattyelle1]

@kevintype The problem is the necessary information to make decisions regarding sweatshop slavery is not made available by the mainstream media. Instead, we are encouraged to buy and then buy some more as Black Friday suggests.

Oligarchical controlled media by Corporate and Zionist interests filter news for their interests. This manipulates the developed world's ability to think freely and creates a mass of population that is better manipulated than the German's under the Nazi regime.

[llothar68]

As long as the stupid US Americans do not learn that more Socialism is the way to a better life there will be no change. When i see that in the mid term elections they are falling for the some capitalistic bullshit - i get pissed off.

[johan404]

Tell this to the Chinese, they are the next generation of consumers when they unpeg from the dollar and the yuan goes up. America and Europe are broke.

[scotchnjake]

there is a simple way to bring the corporate elite down, but Americans have to be willing to change their mindset from satisfying our wants to settling to meeting our basic needs. Keep the tv longer keep the car till it cant run any longer wear the shoes till the soles start to come off. I'm talking about basic consumption. Thats the only way we can take our country back hit them where it hurts $.