1. Systems of Injustice
structures, practices and policies

2. Unsustainable: Chapters 1-2
social and environmental injustice linked
through formal/informal structures/
policies
current trend is morally unsustainable /
based in moral injustice (pg.2)

3. basic connections....
wealth of a few REQUIRES poverty and
exploitation of most (pg. 14)
inequity-built into a global system (35)
a system that was made...can be re-
made

4. normalized systems and structures
what is assumed to be ‘normal’ or
‘natural’
roots in colonial system
empires exploit human and physical
resources and redistribute

5. production systems
shutting off the commons
making wage laborers
shift to capitalism
industrial focus and fordism

6. international ‘development’
after WWII driven by allied nations
decolonization
keynsian economics
development = part of global economy

7. priorities, principles and practices
structure: World Bank and International
Monetary Fund
Structural Adjustment Programs (SAPs)
privatization & reduce social services
EPZs and exports
debt, debt, debt

8. fueled by new global economy
new production mode--flexible
accumulation
focus on “free trade” --trade liberalization
increases exploitation--human and
environment