Follow the Money
Comments (6)Watch and share the short version of Follow the Money:
There is a better way: BetterWayAlberta.ca
The full version of this film premiered in Edmonton on Jan 18, 2012. The new video from Edmonton award-winning documentary producer Tom Radford explains where Alberta's incredible wealth is going, while the provincial government tells Albertans that we have to cut many essential public services.
The book, Follow the Money, by Kevin Taft with Mel McMillan and Junaid Jahangir, is available now in bookstores, at our own office, online through Alpine Book Peddlers, from Chapters, or as an e-book on Kobo.
The video features experts and advocates who take on the big questions of who is really benefiting from our government policies of low taxes and royalties for the very rich and global corporations, including:
- Kevin Taft, author of the new book, Follow the Money, outgoing MLA and former leader of the Alberta Liberal Party
- David Eggen, Executive Director of Friends of Medicare
- Diana Gibson, Research Director of the Parkland Institute
- Gil McGowan, President of the Alberta Federation of Labour
- Bill Moore-Kilgannon, Executive Director of Public Interest Alberta
Tagged under: How should the message get out?
By putting the message on 4'x8' election signs and the web sites of political candidates that support real democracy.
What this province needs is a political party that supports real Participatory Democracy or Rule by the People where people make the decisions and politicians make fewer or no decisions. Your province your way. This can occur over a 15 year period if kids in school get an education in economics, the environment, politics, social systems and more. Until people are better educated as a whole, Participatory Democracy can only be incrementally introduced as democracy demands intelligence. Once people are educated on how to run the province then real participatory democracy can be fully unleashed. The people will even be able to make up the government budget over a year long process (of monthly meetings). The people are best able to decide if they need more doctors, more royalty shares, more potholes fixed in highways, or what ever- not corporate backed plugged in politicians.
If you think this is not possible, then perhaps you should google Participatory Democracy in Brazil where this is occuring in some municipalities. We can grow the concept in Alberta and make a made in Alberta Real Participatory Democracy. We can show the world real democracy leadership by example.
Read a book called IMAGINE DEMOCRACY which describes the Brazilian Participatory Democracy examples.
Democracy demands intelligence and a political party to support it. Be apart of real democracy- not against it. Make way for a better day.
Tell your mom.
The question remains: How do we get this message out to the average Albertan? Ignorance is not bliss.
I agree that this is a topic that needs more discussion, but find the cartoon elements really distasteful - reduces the impact of what should be a serious discussion, and really is insulting to thing that we need this kind of 'comic humor' to get our attention.
Thank you for this analysis. Bad enough what unethical oil does to the environment, but the lie that oil is good economics for average people is exposed when we ask CUI BONO (who benefits)?
Is it safe to grow old in Alberta? Can one afford to grow old in Alberta? We need to get fair, reasonable, honest answers followed by realistic, workable solutions.
Big corporations are running this province.
It is time for the citizens to get our share.
