Imagining economic democracy: Peter Tatchell at TEDxEastEnd

Peter Tatchell was born in Melbourne, Australia, in 1952 and has been campaigning since 1967 on issues of human rights, democracy, civil liberties, LGBT equality and global justice. His human rights inspirations include Mahatma Gandhi, Sylvia Pankhurst and Martin Luther King.
In 2009, he co-proposed a UN Global Human Rights Index, to measure and rank the human rights record of every country - with the aim of creating a human rights league table to highlight the best and worst countries and thereby incentivise governments to clean up their record and improve their human rights ranking.
He coordinated the Equal Love campaign from 2010, in a bid to challenge the UK's twin legal bans on same-sex civil marriages and opposite-sex civil partnerships. The following year, he organised four gay couples and four heterosexual couples to file a case in the European Court of Human Rights, arguing that sexual orientation discrimination in civil marriage and civil partnership law is unlawful under Articles 8, 12 and 14 of the European Convention on Human Rights.
He has proposed an internationally-binding UN Human Rights Convention enforceable through both national courts and the International Criminal Court; a permanent rapid-reaction UN peace-keeping force with the authority to intervene to stop genocide and war crimes; and a global agreement to cut military spending by 10 percent to fund the eradication of hunger, disease, illiteracy, unemployment and homelessness in the developing world.
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[@massimocapriuolo5560]

The very interesting conference approaches much to the economic policy of the PROUT or the theory of progressive utilization of Sarkar. In order to achieve economic democracy, all four economic rights must be guaranteed: 1) Guarantee to everyone the availability of minimum requirements including food, clothing, housing, health and education. 2) To steadily increase people's purchasing power by redistributing wealth. Develop the use of local resources and support the production of essential goods to meet the consumption of the entire population. 3) To give people the right to decide on the local economy: DE supports and promotes forms of work organization as much as possible managed by systems based on co-ordinated cooperation, which allow every worker to be entrepreneur of the company for which he works, Making decisions, profits and risks. 4) Right to control territorial resources and economic planning by the population. The sovereignty of the economy and resources is the responsibility of the people living in that area. Safeguard from speculative external financial economic interference.

[@duwiiscala7882]

read PROUT

[@zanderdefender5680]

There is great information and ideas in this speech but the stage presence and orator skills are lacking. Monotone, unprepared, disorganized ideas, leading to an unengaged, unresponsive audience.

[@cliffordwilson6750]

What do you mean by lack of democracy in capitalism?
People vote on which company goes up and down by purchasing their products and/or services.

[@reddoctorproductions3746]

yes, because a system where one person has 0 votes and another has 200 billion is a fair and equal democracy.