Member of Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), Portugal.
Member of Bloco de Esquerda (Left Bloc), Portugal. less
Work:
Research Assistant at Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Currently researching lim... more
Research Assistant at Center for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. Currently researching limits to commensuration in public decision on large infrastructures, i.e., how to decide when the values at stake cannot be compared using a common metric (a pre-requisite of cost-benefit analysis). less
Educational:
PhD candidate in Economics, conducting a thesis on carbon trading.
PhD candidate in Economics, conducting a thesis on carbon trading. less
After the Piper Alpha disaster in 1988, which killed 167 UK oil workers, there was a surge of union organisation on the North Sea. Neil Rothnie recalls this in an interview, published together with an archive of the rank-and-file workers' paper Bl...
There’s something inherently wrong and irreversibly damaging about a culture where potentially the same conglomerate corporation owns and manufactures the food you feed your dog, the tablets you take for a cold, your electronic toothbrush and the ...
The recent building collapse and ongoing sweatshop fires in Bangladesh killing hundreds of poor garment workers are no different from the mass suicides of “Monsanto farmers” in India, oil pipeline fires killing poor children in Nigeria or i-Phone ...
3 days in central Athens with Algerian refugees listening to their stories and experiences. A chronic context but the humanity of the refugees shines through.
Perhaps the greatest threat to global sustainability is the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which is currently being negotiated in secret. June 2013 Green Time TV explores its costs to social justice and the environment.
A reflection - in Spanish - of former Guatemalan dictator Ríos Montt's closing statement at his dramatic trial for genocide in Guatemala City on May 9, 2013.
When Judge Wilcox asked me what happened on March 5th, 2013 I said the following:
1) Housing and shelter is a basic human right.
2) Olympia and Thurston County criminalize the poor and homeless.
3) That in response to this increased crimin...
