Ep 389 Francine Mestrum On Obstacles to Winning

About this episode

Francine Mestrum discusses the challenges faced in social justice movements and her experiences in activism.

Episode 389 of RevolutionZ has as guest Francine Mestrum, a longtime social justice researcher and organizer whose work spans globalization, poverty, inequality, social protection, public services, gender, and the “social commons” approach to economic and social rights. She has marched, organized, and built a campaigns and organizations and yet felt like the world barely moved. And she has thought about why. Her experience in networks tied to the World Social Forum has given her a wide ...

People in this episode

Host: Michael Albert

Guest: Francine Mestrum

Topics covered

• social justice
• globalization
• inequality
• poverty
• gender
• social rights

Keywords

• social justice
• globalization
• inequality
• poverty
• gender
• social commons
• public services

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: World Social Forum

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