Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Violence

  • State-sponsored terrorism kills more people
    and destroys more properties than what are
    actually reported by the mainstream bourgeois media.
  • Cheap food imports and food aid from the Global North
    jeopardize the livelihood of countless local peasants in the
    Global South by depressing the prices of their products.
  • To meet the production target, over-time is forced upon
    workers by the management in many factories and offices.
  • Hunger is not a mere medical affliction.
    It is by and large a socio-economic problem.
    Attempts to medicalize hunger by reducing it to a mere case of
    malnutrition renders it as a mere personal problem,
    not a social one.
    (Nancy Scheper-Hughes)
  • Racism, ageism, sexism and elitism
    are examples of structural violence.
    The quality of life (QOL) of people is adversely affected if
    they are marginalized and oppressed by the social structures.

DS 112 recorded speech (alternative theories and approaches)

Present a recorded 3-minute speech about your assigned topic. Situate it in the context of the Global South. Provide an appropriate title. P...