Who's Dirk Barrez
Dirk Barrez is a writer and a television journalist working for VRT, the Flemish public radio and television (the former BRT, Belgian radio and television).
Recently he published two books on globalisation, on which answers to give and on the so-called anti-globalisation movement, her alternatives and her future strength:
- The Answers of Anti-Globalisation. From Seattle to Porto Alegre, 2001 (published in Dutch by Globe / Mets en Schilt / 11.11.11and in 2002 in French by Le Roseau Vert et Oxfam)
- I don't want to die in the twentieth century. Surviving in the twenty-first century, Globe, December 1999, 238 p. (published in Dutch, is also a journalistic and educational internet project www.ikwilniet.org)
This book confronts the reader with the numerous problems afflicting humankind today, and does not forget to talk about solutions. Sometimes very original solutions such as a basic income of a quarter of a euro a day for all six billion human beings.
For thirteen years now, he's mainly making television reports for current affairs programmes. He made reports and did other journalistic work in Belgium, half of Europe, Algeria, Brazil, China, Gambia, Honduras, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Nicaragua, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Tanzania, Thailand, Turkey, United States, Western Sahara and Zimbabwe.
Since the early eighties he has published numerous articles and eight books, four of them were top-10 best-sellers in Belgium, such as The land of 1000 scandals. Encyclopaedia of a quarter century of Belgian public outrages (1997). He loves public debate and is willing to stimulate it as with his book Fallen angels (1991-93), about failing non-governmental development organisations.
Dirk Barrez was very active in the European Peace Movement in the eighties and also - until today - in what's mostly called the Third World Movement. To him, the antiglobalisation movement and the World Social Forum gather those people and movements who – very realistically - want our one world more sustainable, more democratic and more solidary.
"Remember, only twenty years ago we were very few, those who didn't accept the division of Europe and the everlasting opposition of more than one million soldiers, ready to fight at any time. We were so-called naive idealists but only ten years later the Iron Curtain was history. So, it's very realistic to predict that many of the ideas and the proposals and much of the spirit of Porto Alegre will be common sense, probably not in then years but certainly this century, if we persist to work on it.” (Dirk Barrez, January 9th 2001)
contact :
site web www.dirkbarrez.be - www.ikwilniet.org
Bibliographie Dirk Barrez
- De antwoorden van het antiglobalisme. Van Seattle tot Porto Alegre, Globe / Mets en Schilt / 11.11.11, september 2001, 264 p.
- Une autre mondialisation est possible. De Seattle à Porto Alegre, Le Roseau Vert / Oxfam Solidarité, 2002, 272 p.
- Ik wil niet sterven aan de XXste eeuw. Over leven in de 21ste eeuw, Globe / 11.11.11, december 1999 (tweede druk 2001), 238 p. – www.ikwilniet.org
- Het land van de 1000 schandalen. Encyclopedie van een kwarteeuw Belgische affaires, 384 p., Globe, 1997 (derde druk 1997), 384 p.
- Le pays des 1000 scandales. Un quart de siècle d'affaires en Belgique, Quorum, 1998
- Het onderzoek: een bende. Over het onderzoek naar de Bende van Nijvel, Standaard Uitgeverij, 1996
De val der engelen. Waarom ontwikkelingsorganisaties falen, 1991, verschenen in Het orkest van de Titanic. Werken aan andere Noord-Zuid verhoudingen, VUBpress & Student Aid, 1993, te vinden op www.indymedia.org - Super Club. Scenario van een kaskraker, Kritak, 1991
- Barrez Dirk e.a., Nicaragua. De ondermijnde revolutie, NCOS, 1985
- Barrez Dirk en Rutgeerts Jan, Stop de Bom. Twee jaar actie tegen de kernbewapening, IOT, 1982
