Audio reports from the World Social Forum 2011 in Dakar, Senegal, produced for broadcast on campus/community radio globally.
In this segment of Dispatches from Dakar we hear a presentation by author Naomi Klein given in Dakar, Senegal, focusing on climate justice struggles globally and the importance of confronting state and corporate attempts at geoengineering the environment. Klein speaks about contemporary climate catastrophes such as the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico as a tipping point on environment globally and the importance of the upcoming climate justice mobilization in Durban South Africa against the UN-backed Climate conference in November and December 2011.
For more information visit http://www.naomiklein.org/
Music featured in this report created by hip-hop artist Makkan J in Senegal.
Dispatches from Dakar interview series is produced for broadcast on campus/community radio by community organizer and journalist Stefan Christoff http://www.twitter.com/spirodon/
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