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Feminist economics or nothing! #economicjustice #feministeconomics
Malawi
Joined January 2023
In this podcast episode, two African feminists, Pamela Takwiia and Sahar Mechmech speak about how the current taxation system affects the social organization of care and reinforces the structural marginalisation of women and girls.🎧 https://t.co/GIBLYpyH6n
#EconomicJustice #GDOA
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🗣 Day1 key🗝️takeaways: 🙋🏾♀️ Recognition of #CareWork in tax policy ⚖️ Progressive taxation for #PublicServices ❌ Elimination of regressive tax measures on caregivers 🔎 Tax transparency to curb #IFFs 🌐 A #UNTaxConvention that ⬆️#GenderJustice
#MakeTaxesWorkForWomen
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touting a ‘labour export programme’ as to an apartheid state that’s in the middle of committing a genocide as some kind of employment policy innovation is a whole other level of colonised fuckery.
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Is it possible to build feminist economies? Don't miss out on today's conversation: Reframing narratives on Wealth taxation: A Pan African Feminists’ vision for building feminist economies by Akina Mama Wa Afrika. (11:00– 12:30) Register here: https://t.co/zebrfveOEg
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What is the point of the revolution if we can't stop to smell the flowers, stop and dance to the beat! Well, before the year ends, we will have an opportunity to revel in feminist joy at the annual Feminist Healing Festival themed around Radical Care! See🧵on participation!
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☀️ #ClimateFinanceMyth 6: "Developing countries need to lower taxes for private investment." ✔️Reality: Progressive taxation is key! Multinationals should pay their share for climate action. 💰 #TaxJustice #ClimateActionNow #UNTaxConvention
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#DearWorldBankAndIMF Here is a letter to the @WorldBank and @IMFNews from @abwoolitricia, on how the economic policies pushing for the privatisation of basic needs like water have robbed Tunisians of access to water. #EconomicJustice
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🌿 #ClimateFinanceMyth 3:** Climate finance governance is fair to all countries. **Reality:** It's not. We need equal voice and vote, human rights, and accountability. Time for a complete system overhaul! 🌍 #FfD4 #ClimateJusticeNow
https://t.co/2a4QtRQwTp
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Jessica Mandanda from @FEAM_Malawi gives a speech on the impact of the world bank and austerity measures at the Global People's alternative tribunal on the IMF and World Bank #EndAusterityMeasures
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Faith Lumonya with @amwaafrika delivering a testimony of the harmful impact of a project funded by IFC in Uganda: ecological balance lost, cheapening value of land, explotation of women’s and labor rights. @Bhumika820 At the People’s Alternatives #GlobalTribunalOnTheIMFAndWB
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Join us in #Marrakech to discuss the #humanrights impacta of development #finance to commercial #healthcare actors
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Voices from the continent are rising in protest of the neoliberal economic policies and instituitions that have been imposed on the African continent, resulting into dire consequences. Read our letter series themed; #DearWorldBankandIMF
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SHUT DOWN THE IMF & WORLD BANK!! #ReclaimOurFuture
Flora Sonkin with @SID_INT explaining the systemic solutions that should be promoted to address the climate crisis, as opposed to the WB’s Evolution Roadmap. The WB cannot be reformed and the IFI’s need to be shut down. #ReclaimOurFuture
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World Bank representative roasted by Debt for Climate during greenwashing event! As the IMF & World Bank begin their annual meeting in Morocco to further their agenda of financial colonialism and climate destruction, #DebtforClimate kicked off our week of global mobilizations by
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🔴Starting soon with @travelingKT @meghnaabraham @FaithLumonya @Liepollo9 @ChikumbutsoNgo1 to talk gender, economic & #ClimateJustice #as part of the #ReclaimOurFuture Conference! 📷There's still time to register to watch online: https://t.co/M1yDVpgNzc
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As @jenny_ricks says, the battle for system change starts in our heads. Neoliberalism is dying but not dead & one day will be a blip in history (Makes me think we are now living with Zombie Neoliberalism. It's never easy to kill the undead but in the movies people always win!)
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I am currently attending the International Tax Justice Academy. Today is Day 1. We have covered the foundations of taxation and inequality that come with taxes on the African continent. Check out this summary of the first session of discussions. @TaxJusticeAfric #taxjustice RT!
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Join us for the tenth session of our Political Education Teach-in Series titled “What is Climate Coloniality?” taught by professor and researcher, @Prof_FSultana! 🗓️Wednesday, October 4th ⏰ 14H00 UTC Register here: https://t.co/uiYekVI35A
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The IMF and World Bank Annual Meetings are going ahead in Marrakech, with "utmost importance that we conduct them in a way that does not hamper the relief efforts under way" - Does this mean you're cancelling Morocco's debt? @IMFNews @WorldBank
Statement by @WorldBank President Ajay Banga, IMF Managing Director @KGeorgieva, and Morocco’s Minister of @financesmaroc Nadia Fettah Alaoui announcing the decision to proceed with the 2023 WB-IMF Annual Meetings in Marrakech. https://t.co/f0OcHJcl24
#IMFmeetings
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