FAIR vs. UNFAIR

Today is my first radio program after a long period of radio silence.

It starts with an interview that can be heard/downloaded and used (non commercially) from the Freie Radios platform on which I finally also got an account: http://www.freie-radios.net/50031

I gave this following description to the program and invited whoever is interested in discussing on the issue of fair trade gold but in the bigger picture of corporate monopoly:

• • Today
  • 4:00pm until 5:00pm

• Radio Ara 103.3 - 105.2, 2 Rue de la Boucherie L-1247 Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg)

• We have fair trade and bio, organic and free range yet all these labels are imposing regulations and certifications on the wrong people, the ones that do things as they have always been done on a small scale, descentralized and oil free. Wouldn't it make more sense to have it the other way around where the unfair, pesticide filled products are labeled and taxed? How about fair trade gold? Does it make sense to continue encouraging the sale of gold as a luxury product? Does this action encourage the sale of unfair gold or is it a necessary step towards giving the millions of people working in miserable conditions a better life? Do people actually need to be GIVEN a better life or they can make it? How does this all fit in with the current financial system and how could a change in it would also affect those at the bottom of this crumbling pyramid? Those that are fleeing the lands where this appetite for resources has made the land unlivable. Those who are then imprisoned in Luxembourg in "not a prison" in the centre de detention. It would be an anonymous place to present ideas, discuss and propose alternatives so if you want to become active come by for a talk during the radio program, LIVE and UNCENSORED. It will not be a classical "moderated" discussion but one based on consensus decision making and anyone could facilitate it. For the time being I propose that I do the facilitation which involves noting down who will speak in what order based on the hand signals that we will use: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consensus_decision-making

During the program there was an unexpected intervention from a listener that was trying to get the point across that technology should still be a great focus point in our lives even if it might mean the loss of human life and the destruction of the earth: http://podcast.ara.lu/?p=2361