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...Only a foolish optimist can deny the dark realities of the moment…This is because the rulers of the exchange of mankind's goods have failed through their own incompetence…The unscrupulous money changers stand indicted in the court of public opinion. They only know the rules of a generation of self seekers. They have no vision and when there is no vision the people perish.

     President Franklin D. Roosevelt, First Inaugural Address - 1933

Overview

The Political Economy of Labor, Capital, and Oligarchy with Evan Matthew Papp is an Inquiry into how Philosophy, History and Culture shape our world and how dialogue and reason will lead us to a new renaissance based on humanism, art, science,  beloved optimism, and a harmony of interests.

Learn More at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/politicaleconomy

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We finish this series with our fifth of five conversations with today’s focus on Climate Justice, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Previous topics focused on Inclusive Development, Empowerment, Democratic Values and an Introduction to Development Ethics.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international/

Guest Biographies 

Dr. Gael Giraud is the founding director of Georgetown University’s Environmental Justice Program. He received his PhD in applied mathematics at the École Polytechnique in Paris, France. He also holds a PhD in theology and has been appointed as research professor at Georgetown University. From 2015 to 2019, he served as Chief economist and executive director of the French Development Agency (AFD). In 2009, he was nominated best young French economist  (by Le Monde).  And in 2013 he was ordained as a priest.

Belynda Petrie is an environmentalist from Cape Town, South Africa and founder and director of ONE World Sustainable Investments, which is an African-based sustainable development consulting organization focused on adaptive development within the context of changing climate and resource constraints. Belynda was a contributing author to the Sixth Assessment Report of the United Nations  Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, (the IPCC), specifically on the Governance chapter. She was also a PhD Candidate at the University of Cape Town with a focus on  Cooperative Governance for Water Security in Africa.

Given that the essence of moral thought is to address and ameliorate human suffering, and to expand human freedoms, how can we afford not to attend to moral clarity when it comes to international relief and development? 

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We continue the dialogue with our fourth of five conversations with today’s focus on Democratic Values, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. 

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international

Panelist Biographies

Paulina Ibarra is the Executive Director of the Fundacion Multitudes in Chile and the first elected Chair of the Civil Society Pillar of the Community of Democracies. She has global experience in the areas of transparency, citizen participation and accountability and has worked in government, private sector and international organizations. In Washington, D.C., Paulina worked with the Open Government Partnership during the administration of President Obama and advised the World Bank on issues of education and digital activism. 

Dr. David Crocker is a Development Ethics Professor at the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland. He specializes in socio-political philosophy, international development ethics, transitional justice, democracy and democratization, and the ethics of consumption. He is also the founder of the International Development Ethics Association.

Overview 

Given that the essence of moral thought is to address and ameliorate human suffering, and to expand human freedoms, how can we afford not to attend to moral clarity when it comes to international relief and development? 

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We continue the dialogue with our third of five conversations with today’s focus on Empowerment as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. 

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international

Panelist Biographies 

Saji Prelis is Co-Chair of the Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security and Director of Children & Youth Programs for Search for Common Ground. Saji has over twenty years’ experience working with youth movements and youth focused organizations in conflict and transition environments in over 35 countries throughout the world. In 2010 he co-founded and has been co-chairing the first UN-Civil Society-Donor working group (Global Coalition on Youth, Peace and Security) that helped successfully advocate for the historic UN Security Council Resolution 2250 (in 2015) on Youth, Peace and Security. As a result of the Global Coalition’s advocacy, two additional Security Council Resolutions, Resolution 2419 in June 2018 and Resolution 2535 in July 2020, were unanimously adopted. 

Christine Koggel is Professor of Philosophy at Carleton University in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Her main research and teaching interests are in the broad areas of moral theory, practical ethics, feminism, social and political theory and development ethics. She is the author of Perspectives on Equality: Constructing a Relational Theory (1998), a book that brings together her interests in moral, political, and feminist theory. She has published 45 journal articles and chapters in edited collections, the most recent of which explore topics in development ethics (capabilities approach, agency, empowerment, work/labour), feminist theory (gender, oppression, care ethics, feminist relational theory), settler-colonialism; Indigenous issues; and their intersections. She is the former President of the Canadian Society for Women in Philosophy (CSWIP), Board member of the International Development Ethics Association (IDEA) and is a Lead Co- Editor for the Journal of Global Ethics.

Overview

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We continue the dialogue with our second of five conversations with today’s focus on Inclusive Development, as part of The Center’s ethical development series building an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community, to the mutual benefit of both, and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Other topics in this series explore Climate Justice, Empowerment, Democratic Values, and an Introduction to Development Ethics.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.international/ 

Panelist Biographies

Dr. Serene Khader holds the Jay Newman Chair in Philosophy of Culture at Brooklyn College and is a Professor of Philosophy and Women's and Gender Studies at the CUNY Graduate Center. Her most recent book, Decolonizing Universalism: A Transnational Feminist Ethic asks what values should guide transnational feminist solidarity. And she is currently writing a book entitled The Freedom Myth about why we need to stop thinking feminism's core value is freedom and start thinking it's equality.

Dr. Ravi Verma is the Asia Director of the International Center for Research on Women and leads local and regional efforts on an array of issues, including reproductive health, family planning, preventing domestic violence, child marriage, engaging men and boys to empower women, HIV/AIDS and economic development.

Overview

Given that the essence of moral thought is to address and ameliorate human suffering, and to expand human freedoms, how can we afford not to attend to moral clarity when it comes to international relief and development? 

The Center for Values in International Development seeks to apply the insights, analytical frameworks, knowledge, and experience that already exist within the field of international development ethics, to guide relief and development practice. 

We begin the series of conversations introducing ethics in development that will start to build an effective bridge between the practitioners’ community and the ethicists’ community,  to the mutual benefit of both,  and to the significant improvement in the effectiveness of international relief and development. Other topics in this series will explore Climate Justice, Inclusive Development, Empowerment, and Democratic Values.

To learn more about The Center for Values in International Development, visit: https://www.centerforvalues.internati...

Panelist Biographies

Nungari Mwangi received her PhD in Development Studies from the University of Cambridge and currently leads the Centre for African Leaders in Agriculture, which is part of the Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa based in Nairobi, Kenya.

Jay Drydyk is a Professor of International Development Ethics at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada, and he is the past President of the International Development Ethics Association and current President of the Human Development Capability Association.

Evan Papp discusses the largest armed insurrection in the U.S. since the Civil War with the American System Network. This was recorded in September 2021, shortly after Evan produced a series on the Battle of Blair Mountain for the 100 year anniversary.

You can hear the original recording at American System here. Union Solidarity Forever!

Additional Content About the Battle of Blair Mountain 

Voices from the Centennial March to Blair Mountain - Organized by the United Mine Workers of America

Remembering 1921: The Battle of Blair Mountain - David Rovics Audio Essay

Mother Jones in West Virginia Coal Fields Making Speeches to Excite Miners

The Road to Blair Mountain - Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

Matewan directed by John Sayles

West Virginia Mine Wars Museum

Dr. Charles B. Keeney’s book The Road to Blair Mountain Saving a Mine Wars Battlefield from King Coal

ABOUT EMLab

Empathy Media Lab is produced by Evan Matthew Papp and we are a proud member of the Labor Radio Podcast Network. Support media, authors, activists, artists, historians, and journalists, who are fighting to improve the prosperity of the working class everywhere. Solidarity forever. 

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I am humbled to have been asked to speak about my experience to students at Montgomery College. This is from November 2021. My presentation was a little windy and moves around quite a bit but I think it captures an origin story of a sort.

Overview

Evan Papp is the founder of Empathy Media Lab, a full-service production house for civil society organizations,  NGOs, and universities. He brings to this work over a decade of experience consulting, developing, and managing communications for the U.S. government, private industry, and non-profits. During his time with the U.S. Agency for International Development, he advanced the strategic communications of high-profile initiatives, including a Presidential energy initiative with commitments from more than 150 global partners across 12 U.S. government agencies. Evan’s private sector experience includes several start-ups including a permaculture farm and an international labor radio and podcast network. Prior to this work, Evan spent five years with the Peace Corps working on emergency health, rural education, and public outreach activities in Zambia, Jamaica and Washington, D.C.  Evan has a master's degree in public policy specializing in international security and economic policy and a bachelor’s degree in philosophy and political science.

You can watch the orginal video here:

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We are excited to share Radio Labour’s January 25, 2022 excerpt, “Garment workers in Bangladesh need a living wage,” that covered The Labor Link’s podcast interview with Kalpona Akter. 

Summary:

Kalpona Akter is a former child worker and labor activist from Bangladesh. She is the founder and Executive Director of the Bangladesh Center for Workers Solidarity and was awarded Human Rights Watch's Alison Des Forges award for Extraordinary Activism. 

The Radio Labour team consists of labour educators, negotiators, research representatives, union members and others connected to the labour movement. Most of us work, or have worked, for a union, a labour studies centre, or a global union. The team is led by Marc Bélanger, an international labour educator, based in Canada.

To learn more about Radio Labour, visit: https://www.radiolabour.net/. 

We continue to explore ways in which if advocates and workers themselves are part of the design and control of platforms, big data may open up new opportunities for vulnerable workers who have long been isolated and exploited.

Guests:  Palak Shah, NDWA Labs; Fairuz Mullagee, University of Western Cape/Social Law Project; Abigail Hunt, Overseas Development Institute

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The Gig is about the women and men who work in the so-called 'gig economy' worldwide. They find work through online platforms, and will tell us why we all need to be concerned about the real future of work.

Following The Gig Podcast’s successful launch of Season 1, host and executive producer Bama Athreya is back with Season 2 focusing on gig workers in the care economy.

For Season 2, The Gig Podcast is partnering with fellow Labor Radio Podcast Network member Evan Papp of Empathy Media Lab to support the production of the new series.

Learn more at: https://www.empathymedialab.com/thegigpodcast

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PROMO - https://youtu.be/hTvUedJjSRc