EQUALS: Reimagining Our Economy
64 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 1 month ago - ★★★★★ - 16 ratingsA podcast about inequality. We reimagine our economy one conversation at a time with activists, thinkers and politicians across the world. Brought to you by Simon, Max, Nabil and Nafkote.
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Is it Possible to be a Neoliberal Feminist?
March 23, 2024 08:07 - 30 minutes - 42.6 MBOn International Women’s Day, Max and Nafkote interviewed Bhumika Muchhala, a development and feminist economist, on the possibility of being a feminist in an economic system that thrives on the exploitation of people and nature. This episode explores the importance of the way our global economy is organized in understanding the fight for gender equality. How issues like labour rights, fair taxation and debt cancellation are feminist issues. Bhumika is the Political Economist and Senior Ad...
SOCIAL MOBILITY- is the capitalist dream just a myth?
March 09, 2024 07:16 - 23 minutes - 32.3 MBNafkote and Max interview Dr. Faiza Shaheen on how capitalism has failed on its main selling point – work hard and you will succeed. The idea that everyone has equal opportunity in life is just a myth. Your success in life is significantly influenced by where you are born, your social class, race, and education. This episode is a powerful critique of our system - one that perpetuates wealth concentration among the rich while leaving the majority behind. Faiza Shaheen is Professor of Econom...
AUSTERITY: A WEAPON TO DISCIPLINE THE PUBLIC? - with Dr. Clara Mattei
February 19, 2024 11:08 - 30 minutes - 42.2 MBMax and Nafkote interview the brilliant Dr. Clara Mattei on the history of austerity and how it was created to maintain “the capital order”. Austerity today the world over remains a favored tool of policymakers. And yet it is far more than just a policy. We examine the roots of austerity and its fundamental role in entrenching capital, and disciplining people to never dare to create alternative economic systems. Dr. Clara Mattei is Associate Professor of Economics at the New School for S...
"TO LIVE AS AFRICAN" - with Dr Ndongo Samba Sylla, on economic liberation
February 02, 2024 22:40 - 32 minutes - 45 MBNafkote and Nabil welcome the pioneering Senegalese development economist Ndongo Samba Sylla onto EQUALS. We talk about the untold vision of former Burkina Faso President Thomas Sankara for economic liberation. The role of the French colonial currency in today’s world. What Modern Monetary Theory can mean to the Global South. And what a Green Bandung Woods – picking up from where liberation leaders left off – can do to rethink the global financial architecture. Ndongo Samba Sylla is a S...
Professor Ha-Joon Chang on Inequality, Corporate Greed and Economics for the 99%
January 18, 2024 13:39 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBMax and Nafkote interview the world-famous economist Professor Ha Joon Chang to ask what is causing the inequality crisis and what governments can do to stop it. How are traffic lights, neoliberalism, and the Catholic Church in medieval times linked? How can we create a new generation of developmental states that face down corporates and build equal societies? An EQUALS episode not to be missed, with a giant of economic thinking. As ever follow us on Twitter and leave us a review. Tune in ...
ECONOMICS FOR THE 99% - with Professor Ha-Joon Chang
January 18, 2024 13:39 - 28 minutes - 39.3 MBMax and Nafkote interview the world-famous economist Professor Ha Joon Chang to ask what is causing the inequality crisis and what governments can do to stop it. How are traffic lights, neoliberalism, and the Catholic Church in medieval times linked? How can we create a new generation of developmental states that face down corporates and build equal societies? An EQUALS episode not to be missed, with a giant of economic thinking. As ever follow us on Twitter and leave us a review. Tune in ...
THE WALL STREET CONSENSUS - with Dr. Daniela Gabor
December 15, 2023 17:13 - 30 minutes - 41.6 MBEQUALS is back. Max and Nabil speak to Dr. Daniela Gabor, who says we’ve entered a new era of the “Wall Street Consensus”. Her macro analysis is lighting up debates around the world about how much power we’re giving up to global private finance - and what exactly comes after neoliberalism. Daniela, Professor of Economics and Macro-Finance at UWE Bristol, breaks down what is driving this new paradigm, how it drives inequality, and what a true alternative - a Big Green State - looks like. As...
CLIMATE INEQUALITY
November 30, 2023 09:59 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBIntroducing a new EQUALS season and our new podcast co-host, Nafkote Dabi, Climate Policy Lead at Oxfam International. Joining Nafkote and Max in this episode are Astrid Nilsson Lewis and Ashfaq Khalfan. Together, they delve into the latest Oxfam report “Climate Equality: A planet for the 99%” How are the climate and inequality crises intertwined? In this episode, we expose the profound disparities stemming from the dual crises of climate breakdown and staggering inequality. We uncover t...
Season Five Closer. Farewell Nadia!
February 21, 2023 14:40 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBA season five wrap-up with just the co-hosts! Nadia is sadly leaving the podcast (and Oxfam). The co-hosts get together to look back on their time together and reflect on over fifty episodes of EQUALS. We’ll be back for season six folks. Inequality’s sky-high. The fight’s on this decade but there’s hope. You’ve asked us to cover issues from the global debt crisis facing developing countries to the new scramble for minerals across the world. Join us then - watch this space! Follow us on @E...
JOSEPH STIGLITZ ON INEQUALITY, WAR PROFITEERS, AND A NEW COLD WAR
January 22, 2023 14:41 - 28 minutes - 39.5 MBNadia and Nabil interview Nobel Prize Laureate Professor Joseph Stiglitz to ask just how dire the state of inequality is - and what we’ve got to do about it. Is it realistic to tax the richest at rates above 70%? What’s the connection between Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and IMF-backed austerity in low income countries? An EQUALS episode not to be missed with a giant of economic thinking. Make sure you share the podcast on social media and write a review! We’re at @EQUALShope on Twitt...
A PLAN TO MAKE RICH COUNTRIES ADDRESS THEIR PAST WRONGS - PART 2 - With Professor Verene Shepherd and Dr. Grieve Chelwa
December 23, 2022 08:21 - 26 minutes - 35.8 MBHow exactly can rich countries address their past wrongs of slavery and colonialism? Well, there’s a plan. Jamaican scholar and UN leader Verene Shepherd outline what Caribbean nations have called for. This EQUALS episode is the second of a two-part special on reparations. In the first episode, we heard the case for reparations – and went back to the 15th century to the moment European men began an era of the slave trade of colonialism. Now we ask “how”. Nabil and Nadia speak to Professor ...
SHOULD RICH COUNTRIES PAY FOR THEIR PAST CRIMES? – PART 1 – With Professor Verene Shepherd
December 09, 2022 07:34 - 23 minutes - 32.1 MBWe start on the shores of the Caribbean islands of the 15th century. As white European men landed on its shores, the story of centuries of colonialism and slavery, and today’s global inequality begins. This EQUALS is the first of a two-part special on the case for reparations. Nabil and Nadia speak with the Jamaican scholar Professor Verene Shepherd who with others across the world is demanding repair for those atrocities. Professor Verene Shepherd is a social historian and the Director ...
ON BILLIONAIRES AND FOSSIL FUELS - With Nafkote Dabi, Harjeet Singh, and Teun Ott after COP
November 25, 2022 20:44 - 24 minutes - 33.4 MBIn this episode, Nafkote Dabi, Harjeet Singh, and extinction rebellion activist Teun Ott join Max and Nadia to talk about billionaires, inequality, and climate breakdown. Nafkote and Harjeet joined us directly from the COP last week. Nafkote, Climate Lead at Oxfam describes how billionaires contribute to carbon emissions not only through their lifestyles but also through their investments. Harjeet, Head of Global political strategy at Climate Action Network tells us about Loss and Damage an...
THE “CASINO” OF GLOBAL FINANCE – with Ann Pettifor
November 01, 2022 12:32 - 33 minutes - 46.5 MBAnn Pettifor joins Max and Nabil on EQUALS. She famously predicted the global financial crash in 2007/8 and she’s worried again. She says it’s not just simply supply and demand that’s driving global food system shocks - and tells the story of how gambling-like practices in global financial markets are affecting all of us. She’s got some big ideas to on reining in capital, and why poorer countries being crushed under mountains of debt need to be able to declare themselves bankrupt. The late...
COST OF LIVING STORIES ACROSS THE GLOBE – from Lumbadzi, London and Cape Town
September 24, 2022 06:47 - 31 minutes - 43.2 MBWe speak to three people reckoning with today’s massive cost of living crisis – with stories from Malawi, the United Kingdom and South Africa. Max speaks with Nellie Kumambala, a secondary school teacher in Lumbadzi, Malawi, and Walter, a security guard in London, United Kingdom. Nabil speaks with Wafaa Abdurahman, the National Coordinator, Fight Inequality Alliance South Africa. Different countries, same story. People are suffering. They’re ready to act. What are their solutions? Make sur...
INFLATION: THE UNTOLD STORY – with Lindsay Owens and Irit Tamir
September 03, 2022 09:05 - 32 minutes - 44.4 MBEQUALS is back! We're asking: What has *really* been happening in the board rooms of multinational companies? And what's that got to do with today's cost-of-living crisis being felt across the globe? This new season on EQUALS we’ll focus on the crisis, bringing stories and solutions from across the globe. Nabil and Nadia speak with Dr. Lindsay Owens and Irit Tamir. Lindsay is the Executive Director at the Groundwork Collaborative, formerly Economic Policy Advisor to Senator Elizabeth Warre...
“FOR HEAVEN’S SAKE, GET PREPARED!” – With Helen Clark, Former PM of New Zealand
April 20, 2022 11:37 - 32 minutes - 45.2 MBNadia and Nabil welcome former New Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark on the EQUALS podcast for a special episode. The IMF, World Bank and the G20 all are meeting this week. The world is facing multiple crises that are converging from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Ukraine crisis, to soaring food and fuel prices. Two years into the pandemic, we ask PM Clark what governments should have done to respond to the pandemic; what still needs to happen; and how to prevent future crises. And could we...
IT’S A WRAP ON SEASON 4!
March 21, 2022 17:21 - 11 minutes - 15.6 MBIt’s a wrap on Season 4 of EQUALS! Liz, Max, Nabil and Nadia reflect on the season, and on 2 years since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We talk race, inequality, political power, access to justice, and we discuss campaigning for a People’s Vaccine. 14 episodes in, which ones stand out for us and why? Make sure you share the podcast on social media and leave a review! We’re at @EQUALShope on Twitter. For more information about the people’s vaccine movement check out @peoplesvaccine....
WILL CHILE'S NEW 36-YEAR-OLD PRESIDENT BURY NEOLIBERALISM? - with Noam Titelman (and Ana Arendar)
March 04, 2022 12:10 - 34 minutes - 46.8 MBIn a few days, a 36-year-old former student leader who wants to fight inequality will become the President of Chile. He says, “If Chile was the cradle of neoliberalism, it will also be its grave”. We find out about what President-elect Gabriel Boric wants to do, and about the movement of young people whose protests have swung the pendulum of power in Chile. We take a trip to 1973 to the birth of neoliberalism – the economic ideology that would go on to spread across the world – under milit...
FORMER UK PM GORDON BROWN ON THE EXTRAORDINARY COVID RESPONSE WE NEED
February 11, 2022 00:01 - 32 minutes - 44.2 MBMax and Nabil welcome former UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown on the Oxfam EQUALS podcast for an incisive interview. The pandemic is far from over. Vaccine inequality rages on. We ask Gordon what he would do if he was leading the G20 today – and how to rally the world’s leaders to act, as he did in response to the global financial crash. Gordon Brown is the World Health Organization’s Ambassador for Global Health Financing, and a member of Club de Madrid forum – the world’s largest forum of ...
“AN INCREDIBLE EXPLOSION OF INEQUALITY” – with Renowned Economist, Branko Milanovic
January 21, 2022 18:25 - 21 minutes - 29.6 MBWe are witnessing a COVID-19 driven explosion in inequality. This week, Oxfam released its annual report, Inequality Kills, showing that the pandemic is killing at least 1 person every 4 seconds, while the ten richest men have doubled their fortunes during this same pandemic. This is the biggest single increase in billionaire wealth in recorded history. Max and Nadia talk to Branko Milanovic, world-renowned authority on inequality, to find out why. Branko is a Senior Scholar at City Univers...
IS SANTA CLAUS A CAPITALIST ICON? – A lively Holiday Special with Asad Rehman
December 17, 2021 19:10 - 20 minutes - 28.2 MBAlas! Santa Claus is coming to town!! And we’re having a Christmas debate on a hot button topic that is dividing people. Is Santa a socialist or a merciless capitalist? Liz and Nadia talk to Asad Rehman, the Executive Director of War on Want. He’s a lifelong campaigner against racialised capitalism, economic, climate and social injustice – and he’s got some beef with Santa! This is one for the books. With lots of laughter and music. Please do share the episode on your social media. Intro ...
WILL THE PANDEMIC CHANGE HEALTHCARE FOREVER? – With Rob Yates of Chatham House and Rebecca Riddell of New York University
December 10, 2021 15:33 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBWe finally talk healthcare on EQUALS. Could the pandemic trigger the creation of universal healthcare systems around the world? What can we learn from Thailand and Costa Rica? What is privatization doing to healthcare in Kenya? And who is undermining healthcare for all? Liz, Nabil and Max chat to Rob Yates (Director, Global Health Program, Chatham House) and Rebecca Riddell (Co-Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project, NYU Law School Center for Human Rights and Global Justice). The...
POST-COP26: WHAT’S NEXT? CLIMATE JUSTICE V CLIMATE COLONIALISM – With Asad Rehman and Nafkote Dabi
November 19, 2021 17:37 - 26 minutes - 36.3 MBHere’s your post-COP26 deep dive. What do the outcomes mean for us all? Why were developing countries insisting on reparations? What’s the fuss about billionaire emissions? We welcome two amazing guests from the climate justice movement who were influencing the Glasgow climate talks. Asad Rehman is the Executive Director of War on Want, a lifelong campaigner against racial and economic injustice, and has been at the forefront of the climate justice movement helping to reframe climate as an...
BUSES AND THE INEQUALITY CRISIS – With Bassam Khawaja and Matteo Rizzo
October 13, 2021 15:09 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MBWe need to talk about buses. Yes, buses. And inequality. The issue that nobody’s talking about. Since the 80s, transport across the world has been privatized – fueling an inequality crisis that undermines our human rights. Liz, Max and Nabil chat to Bassam Khawaja (Co-Director, Human Rights and Privatization Project, NYU Law School Center for Human Rights and Global Justice) and Matteo Rizzo (Senior Lecturer in Development Studies - SOAS University of London) who know lots about buses. W...
IS GREEN GROWTH A CONVENIENT LIE? – With Jason Hickel, Economic Anthropologist
August 20, 2021 18:09 - 29 minutes - 40.9 MBHow fighting inequality and beating climate change means we must end our addiction to economic growth and fast. We’re asking: How are inequality, climate breakdown and growth linked? Why is green growth an impossibility? If rich nations must stop growing, what does this mean for developing countries? Nadia and Max have an amazing conversation with Dr. Jason Hickel – economic anthropologist, activist, academic and author of ‘Less is More’ and ‘The Divide’ . Jason is a leading thinker on bo...
CAN FOREIGN AID BE DECOLONIZED? – With Power Shifter Degan Ali
August 10, 2021 11:15 - 29 minutes - 40.5 MBForeign aid has helped save millions of lives. But the whole system is facing a huge reckoning. As the New York Times’ Editorial Board wrote recently, “A growing group of intellectuals, aid workers and civic leaders from Africa say the “white savior” mentality of the world’s foreign aid system can end up doing more harm than good. We’re asking: Does aid work? Is aid really so colonial that it needs to end? How must the whole system change? And is it time to move to talk about reparations? ...
ECONOMIC HUNGER GAMES IN AFRICA –With Pan-African feminist Crystal Simeoni
July 27, 2021 15:28 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBWhat doesn’t mainstream economics “get” about Africa? What is the future of the state itself in Africa? And how much should we really be focusing on corruption within Africa? Max and Nabil have a riveting conversation with Pan-African feminist Crystal Simeoni – who is Director at Nawi: Afrifem Macroeconomics Collective (which is well worth checking out here!). Previously, she was head of the economic justice department at FEMNET, one of the largest African women's rights networks. She is...
WHEN NEOLIBERALISM TOOK ON AFRICA’S ECONOMIC IMAGINATION – With Zambian economist Grieve Chelwa
July 09, 2021 16:13 - 32 minutes - 44 MBFormer Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda (“KK”) – who led his country in the wake of independence from colonial rule – recently died. A pan-African giant, he pursued efforts to boldly pursue equality at home and fight for liberation across the African continent. Max Lawson and Nabil Ahmed have an amazing chat with Dr. Grieve Chelwa on what President Kaunda really set out to do with the state taking a far more active role. What can we learn from “Kaundanomics” for today? And what was the i...
TAX THE RICH! SAY THE RICH – Meet Patriotic Millionaires Morris Pearl and Erica Payne
June 04, 2021 17:16 - 30 minutes - 41.8 MBHow does it feel to have more money than you could ever spend? What is it that makes someone who is a millionaire fight for higher taxes on the rich? How does playing a rigged game of monopoly reveal how rich people’s minds work? What chance that President Joe Biden can reverse the relentless lowering of taxes on the richest people? Nadia and Max are joined by Erica Payne and Morris Pearl – founders of the Patriotic Millionaires, a group of wealthy individuals leading the charge to raise ta...
IS RACISM SHAPING THE GLOBAL VACCINE RESPONSE? – With Priti Krishtel, Tahir Amin and Asia Russell
May 18, 2021 16:36 - 32 minutes - 45.1 MBWe’re asking: is racism silently shaping the global vaccine response? And what could President Biden’s recent huge decision to take on vaccine monopolies mean for people around the world? We also do a special round of “big pharma bingo”, examining the key arguments that pharmaceutical corporations have been making that is stifling the mass production of Covid-19 vaccines. Max and Nabil are joined by three giants from the access to medicines and public health movement: Priti Krishtel and ...
MUSIC AS POLITICAL POWER - With PilAto, Zambian Music Artist Sensation
February 12, 2021 16:22 - 30 minutes - 41.7 MB[This episode contains great music!] His beautiful music reaches millions. He’s topped the charts in the African continent. He’s winning change. He’s even been arrested for his music. He is PilAto – real name Fumba Chama – the Zambian music artist and activist sensation. On this truly inspiring episode of the EQUALS podcast Max and Nabil speak to PilAto about his backstory, what’s behind his music, and the power of music to change the world. You can listen to more of PilAto’s music on...
WHY WE NEED TO DREAM – Award-Winning Author Gary Younge on MLK, Inequality and Race
January 27, 2021 17:59 - 28 minutes - 39.6 MBA remarkable conversation with a great thinker and giant of journalism who has covered the great stories of our time. We ask what can be learnt from MLK about the fight against inequality? What holds back change and what is the role of journalism? How can America heal under Biden? We talk about the place of idealism in politics and how we can bring together struggles – and win. Nadia and Nabil speak to the brilliant award-winning journalist, prolific author and now professor of sociology...
SO WHEN DO I GET A VACCINE? – Vaccines Experts on What It’ll Take To Get A People’s Vaccine To The World
January 12, 2021 17:24 - 30 minutes - 42.5 MBA vaccine. Pfizer, AstraZeneca, Moderna. You know the names by now. A vaccine is the light at the end of this painful pandemic. It’s been amazing to see some people in some countries starting to get a vaccine. But just 1 in 10 people in poor countries stand to get one this year. On this EQUALS podcast special we speak to brilliant vaccines experts to answer: when will most of the world get a vaccine? What needs to be done? We speak to vaccine and health experts – Dr. Mohga Kamal Yanni, ...
2021: YEAR OF HOPE? – With Climate Leader Christiana Figueres (& Nafkote Dabi!)
December 24, 2020 17:33 - 29 minutes - 40.2 MB2020 ends. 2021 begins. How can we make sure this will be a defining year in the fight against climate breakdown? What has COVID taught us? And is it possible to be optimistic? We talk to Christiana Figueres – the global climate leader who led the 2015 Paris accord talks and author of “The Future We Choose” – about all of this. And we also get reflections from Oxfam’s Nafkote Dabi about what success really looks like in the wake of the rise of climate movements across the globe. All in unde...
SCHOOLS OUT FOR COVID! – Fighting The New Education Inequality Crisis, with Dr. Prachi Srivastava and Linda Oduor-Noah
December 17, 2020 17:05 - 30 minutes - 42.3 MBCOVID-19 has pushed over a billion kids out of school. What must we do right now to ensure this isn’t a “lost generation”? How does inequality affect access to education? And why do private schools present such a challenge to quality education in developing countries? To show us what needs to be done, we’re joined in this episode by the inimitable Dr. Prachi Srivastava – Associate Professor at the University of Western Ontario, whose fascinating research digs deep on inequality, and the glob...
WILL A BIDEN ADMINISTRATION FIGHT INEQUALITY? – With Stephanie Kelton, “Rock Star” Economist
November 27, 2020 14:00 - 25 minutes - 17.6 MBJust what does the election of US President-elect Joe Biden mean for the fight against inequality, in the US and around the world? How might billionaires be feeling? What’s it going to take to put the right policies into place? What can we learn from FDR? And just how can Modern Monetary Theory – “MMT” – help? We talk to the influential economist Professor Stephanie Kelton. She was formerly chief economist on the U.S. Senate Budget Committee and senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders, and ...
NATURE VS. GREED – Meet Leading Climate Figure Hindou Ibrahim (with Tim Gore!)
October 17, 2020 09:00 - 30 minutes - 21.1 MBHow can we reimagine our relationship with nature? Why do we need to bring down the emissions of the rich more than all? How can we bridge climate science with indigenous knowledge? A profound interview with leading climate figure Hindou Ibrahim, an indigenous leader and member of Mbororo people in Chad and President of the Association for Indigenous Women and Peoples of Chad (AFPAT). We’re also joined by Tim Gore, the climate guru behind Oxfam’s fascinating new research showing how bringing...
IMF CHIEF KRISTALINA GEORGIEVA – ON COMMUNISM, CARBON AND CORONAVIRUS
September 18, 2020 09:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBA truly illuminating conversation with one of the world’s most powerful people, Kristalina Georgieva, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). What does communism have to do with fighting today’s pandemic? How worried should we be about a spike in inequality after the crisis? And has the IMF learnt from its mistakes of the past? From decarbonizing economies to overcoming debt crises, this is one episode you don’t want to miss! This is the Season 3 opener of the EQUALS pod...
IT’S A WRAP ON SEASON-TWO! – Reflections, and if We Can Hope Post-COVID
August 07, 2020 17:00 - 14 minutes - 9.98 MBSeason Two of EQUALS comes to a close! Our 13-episode season started as the snow fell in Davos, talking to best-selling author Anand Giridharadas about whether we need billionaires. As the coronavirus hit our world, we spoke vaccines, race, fascism and more. We interviewed activists like the legendary Lidy Nacpil to doctors on the front-line in Nairobi, to the unstoppable former UN Special Rapporteur and human rights lawyer Philip Alston. Our hosts Nadia, Nabil and Max are joined by our pr...
IS IT POPULISM OR FASCISM? – With Ece Temelkuran
July 17, 2020 17:00 - 28 minutes - 19.3 MBAn illuminating and fun conversation with award-winning Turkish novelist and political commentator Ece Temelkuran about the slide into a more authoritarian world. What’s driving this? Has the pandemic made it worse? And what’s it got to do with inequality? Ece is the author of “How To Lose A Country”, winner of the Edinburgh International Book Festival First Book award for her novel Women Who Blow on Knots, and twice recognized as Turkey’s most-read political columnist. This is the latest EQ...
WHEN WE BROUGHT DOWN A DICTATOR - Meet Lidy Nacpil, legendary activist from Manila, Philippines
June 28, 2020 18:00 - 29 minutes - 20.1 MBShe played her part in bringing down a dictatorship. She’s fought inequality for over forty years. She’s on the front-line of the fight against climate change. She’s described as “one of the busiest organizers in the world”. We speak to Lidy Nacpil, a truly legendary activist fighting for justice to this day. We talk about taking down a dictatorship, her husband’s assassination, the importance of history, and what the coronavirus means for the fight against inequality. An episode full of ins...
RACISM, REBELLIONS AND THE ECONOMY – with Professor Darrick Hamilton
June 05, 2020 19:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBRacism. Today's protests. Rebellions. The economy. Inequality. Structural change. Hope. We speak to the brilliant Professor Darrick Hamilton about all of this. He’s an “intellectual giant” behind thinking on the racial wealth gap and inequality, who's bold policy ideas have been championed by a number of US political figures. We speak to Professor Hamilton about what is happening in the United States right now, and the way in which coronavirus has disproportionately impacted black communitie...
WHY WE NEED A #PEOPLESVACCINE – With Achal Prabhala and Mohga Kamal-Yanni
May 30, 2020 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.5 MBA vaccine against COVID-19 is humanity’s best shot at ending this painful pandemic. But how can we ensure that a vaccine is available to all people, all countries, free of charge? We talk about the need for a #PeoplesVaccine, what to do about the big pharma monopolies and vaccine nationalism that stand in the way and what we can learn from iconic struggles to fight for access to medicines like the victories by HIV/AIDS activists. Nabil and Max speak to two amazing activist-advocates with a ...
SPEAKING UNCOMFORTABLE TRUTHS - Meet Philip Alston, former UN Special Rapporteur and human rights lawyer
May 16, 2020 18:00 - 26 minutes - 18.1 MBAs the UN’s poverty and human rights expert Philip Alston famously spoke truth to governments about what he saw. We explore what kind of world we’re heading into in the wake of coronavirus, and what Philip learnt listening to communities in countries from the USA to Ghana to Chile to Malaysia (some fascinating stories here!). EQUALS is all about bringing a range of experts to share their own unique and insight from their own experiences. Professor Philip Alston was appointed to be the UN Spe...
CORONAVIRUS IN ONE OF AFRICA'S BIGGEST CITIES - Two Perspectives From The Front-Line In Nairobi about the #InequalityVirus
April 17, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBA fascinating look into what coronavirus looks like from one of Africa’s biggest cities: Nairobi, Kenya. Max and Nabil speak to a doctor from a major hospital and a security guard who lives in one of Africa’s biggest slums about what they’re seeing – and what must be done. This is the latest episode of the EQUALS #InequalityVirus mini-series. This one’s from the front-lines of coronavirus. How does it feel to be a doctor right now in a major hospital in Africa? What could still be done to h...
#InequalityVirus – From the Kenyan Frontlines: a Hospital and a Slum
April 17, 2020 18:00 - 30 minutes - 20.7 MBA fascinating look into what coronavirus looks like from one of Africa’s biggest cities: Nairobi, Kenya. Max and Nabil speak to a doctor from a major hospital and a security guard who lives in one of Africa’s biggest slums about what they’re seeing – and what must be done. This is the latest episode of the EQUALS #InequalityVirus mini-series. This one’s from the front-lines of coronavirus. How does it feel to be a doctor right now in a major hospital in Africa? What could still be done to ...
THE INEQUALITY VIRUS – How Coronavirus Preys on The Vulnerable
March 27, 2020 14:00 - 20 minutes - 13.8 MBCoronavirus threatens us all. With each day, more of us are being personally affected by coronavirus. Estimates now show that the virus could kill millions of people. Hundreds more millions of people could be pushed into poverty. And it is clear how coronavirus is exposing and exploiting the extreme inequality that defines our world – and preying on the world’s most vulnerable people. EQUALS is a podcast about fighting inequality and building a fairer world. The virus is on everyone’s m...
WHEN WORKERS WIN – Meet Sharan Burrow, Leader of the Global Trade Union Movement
March 13, 2020 05:00 - 29 minutes - 20.4 MBShe’s been described as “the union boss of union bosses’ union bosses”. She’s the “individual with the possibly the largest democratic mandate in the world”, representing over 200 million workers in 163 countries and territories. And she’s winning change on the front-lines with workers around the world. She’s Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC). Max and Nabil talk to Sharan about why trade unions and collective action is as important as...
TAX, SLAVERY AND BILLIONAIRES – Meet Rising Star Economist Gabriel Zucman
February 28, 2020 10:00 - 29 minutes - 20.5 MBMeet Gabriel Zucman - the acclaimed activist economist who’s taking the world by storm on his plans to tax the rich, end tax dodging and fight inequality. He’s "changing how you think about wealth, whether you know it or not". His proposals for a wealth tax on billionaires in the US have been taken on board by US Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. We talk to Gabriel about his ideas and his new book, ‘The Triumph of Injustice: How the rich dodge taxes and how they ...