Hosts Cecil and Celeste speak with Global Policy Network Organizer Tony Avirgan about what kind of world system might emerge out of our economic meltdown.
Tony Avirgon joined the Economic Policy Institute as organizer of its Global Policy Network in 2000. Formerly he was a communications coordinator of The Development GAP, a non-governmental organization striving to give Southern marginalized groups a voice in economic policy making. Over the course of his career he co-produced and shot several documentary films, and worked as a freelance writer, reporter and film-maker based in Tanzania, covering African liberation struggles and Costa Rica, covering Latin America and the Caribbean. He also worked as editor of Mesoamerica, a monthly publication of political, economic, and environmental news of Central America and Panama.