{"id":2006,"date":"2021-05-28T18:36:55","date_gmt":"2021-05-29T01:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/event\/privatizing-the-world-different-countries-turkey-us-chile-bolivia-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2021-08-06T23:14:43","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T06:14:43","slug":"privatizing-the-world-different-countries-turkey-us-chile-bolivia-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/event\/privatizing-the-world-different-countries-turkey-us-chile-bolivia-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Privatization, Union Busting, The Global Fightback"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The privatization of public resources is an epidemic around the world. The US through the World Bank and IMF\u00a0has demanded that countries privatize and deregulate their economics to\u00a0make them more \u201cefficient\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0This has\u00a0led to the sale off of all the resources and public services including health-care, education and the pensions of\u00a0public workers,\u00a0and this was pushed in Brazil and Chile by the \u201cChicago Boys\u201d led by Milton Friedman.<br \/>\nThe privatized health-care system has also made it even more difficult to control the global pandemic with\u00a0for profit health-care systems dominating in more and more countries.<br \/>\nWe will look at this privatization as well in the Bay Area with the privatization in Northern California.<br \/>\n<strong>Speakers:<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Fabio Bosco<\/strong><\/em>, Sao Paulo Transit Workers Unions On Privatization<br \/>\n<em><strong>Liza Milos<\/strong><\/em>, CWA UPTE UCSF Interpreter on the Attack on Pensions and Chilean Privatization<br \/>\n<em><strong>Keith Shanklin<\/strong><\/em>, ILWU Local 34 past president<br \/>\n<em><strong>David Hemson<\/strong><\/em>, former Durban dockworker organizer and labor researcher<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The privatization of public resources is an epidemic around the world. The US through the World Bank and IMF\u00a0has demanded that countries privatize and deregulate their economics to\u00a0make them more \u201cefficient\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0This has\u00a0led to the sale off of all the resources and public services including health-care,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116,"template":"","meta":{"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[72,4,70],"class_list":["post-2006","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tribe_events_cat-72","tribe_events_cat-forum-reading","tribe_events_cat-zoom","cat_2021","cat_forum-reading","cat_zoom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2006","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2006\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2006"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/laborfest.net\/2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}