News - 10 Dicembre 2019 A U-turn for the American Market Economy Thanks to Poor Governance and Bad Politics The French professor now teaching at New York University, explains that America’s powerful corporations, instead of investing in innovation, are squeezing as much profit as possible from capital in order to create wealth mostly to the advantage of top managers and largest shareholders. They ruthlessly stifle competition and employ armies of deep-pocketed lobbyists in Washington D.C....
U.N. - 1 Aprile 2019 Inequality: Economists Discuss it at the UN but Forget About Human Nature I think of a hypothetical case: I imagine a country where inequality has been eradicated and everyone now owns 5 cows… Is it not more than likely that at some point, one of my neighbors might want to go out and steal a 6th cow? Perhaps even one of mine?
Arts - 26 Aprile 2017 Paying Attention to Homelessness in L.A. In the summer of 2016 I started exploring the streets of Skid Row, Downtown Los Angeles. I had a camera and a white background with me. I began talking to the many homeless that live in the streets. I was engaging them in conversations, talking, listening and taking portraits of them. In one word I was seeing […]
Arts - 9 Settembre 2016 Landfill Harmonic: The Sound of Garbage An environmental technician from Paraguay invited local kids to take music lessons. They began to create instruments out of whatever could be salvaged from the mounds of trash around them. Eventually the orchestra came to life, Landfill Harmonic. This award-winning documentary tells their story.
English - 26 Agosto 2015 South South Awards: Celebrating the development of the Global South The 2015 South South Awards will celebrate the advancement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in the global South. At the press preview, Executive Producer of the gala, introduces the production team responsible for creating the elegant atmosphere of the annual award ceremony, and Alexandru Cujba, Secretary-General of the South-South Steering Committee for Sustainable Development (SS-SCSD), explains its philanthropic impact