#occupywallstreet: The Next Human Rights Movement?

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December 1, 2011: What right do people have to claim against social and economic inequality? Is inequality unjust? Who can be held accountable? A debate between protesters and Columbia faculty from the Economics, Business, Human Rights and Political Science worlds. Panelists include Columbia faculty members: - Elazar Barkan - Bruce Kogut - Peter Rosenblum - Jeffrey Sachs - Dorian Warren and #OWSers: - Yesenia Barragan - Alicia White

Moderated by Anya Schiffrin

https://www.facebook.com/events/309262785759838/ Occupy Wall Street: The Next Human Rights Movement?

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  • The audio portion where someone attempted to record the video playing within this video is very poorly done. Whoever recorded it left it in the red zone resulting in over-modulation and distortion. Please consider your audience before filming again. Thanks.

  • In the current system, the rich have the means to pay for better health care, better education, better representation in the law courts - these are things that should be available to all in equal measure NO MATTER WHAT.  I think Jeffrey Sachs should run for President - he would do a world of good for the U.S.A. and bring it back to being a true, economically strong democracy.

  • Yes, I think inequality is unjust, and I think that money, greed and profit is the problem - think about it this way - if we didn't have money and we went back to the way things were done before there was money - a simple 'trading' system, in which a service was traded for a service or a resource was traded for another resource - you would never have inequality. No one person could possibly offer the return value of billions of dollars to the people they took it from (by however means).

  • Excellent talk, I just regret it got sidetracked at the end with people whining about the word "occupy" ... I mean really? You're not going to participate in fighting for human rights and the restructuring towards a more democratic representation because of a fucking word? How self-righteous can you be? That's nothing, that's marketing... "Omg they aren't using the right word, I'm not participating" Get over yourself... I actually hate that it was brought up at all, cause now I'm just miffed.

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