Friends of the Earth
1101 15th St, NW, 11th Floor Washington, D.C. 20005
May 16, 2016
10:30 PM - 12:30 AM (GMT-4)
Free screening of The Same Heart, a documentary that follows the stark effects of inequality on the world's children, followed by a discussion with filmmaker Len Morris and economist Dean Baker of the Center for Economic and Policy Research.
The Robin Hood Tax — a miniscule tax on the trades of stocks, bonds, and other financial instruments -- is widely seen as a promising source of funds to help developing countries take climate action. France capitalized on its presidency at the Paris COP to push for a Robin Hood Tax as an innovative source of climate finance. And now France and 9 other European countries are on the cusp of establishing the world's first regional Robin Hood Tax. Additionally, the finance ministers of the Vulnerable Twenty (V20), a group of highly climate change-vulnerable developing countries, have called for an FTT "to meet the urgent finance mobilization needs of climate action."
With vivid and often beautiful footage of hard places to grow up in, The Same Heart is shot in eleven countries, including the US. The film gathers a growing number of global economists, joining their voices with moral leaders, to propose an extremely small tax on Wall Street financial transactions -- popularly known as the "Robin Hood Tax." This tax would place the needs of children at the heart of the global financial system in an age of environmental crisis.
The event is sponsored by Child Labor Coalition, Friends of the Earth US, Institute for Policy Studies, International Labor Rights Forum, Maryknoll Office for Global Concerns, National Nurses United, and Public Citizen.
