The Anti-Globalization movement is protesting the present world wide
governmental directions to develop one global market where goods and
services (and not people) can move freely across any country while
copyrights and business secrets remain protected and entrenched in
the few hands of the big transnational corporations.
Now, you will hear from the conventional corporate controlled
media, that the Anti-Globalization protesters are a bunch of people
coming from any walk of life and whose main interest is to cause
social disturbances. Corporate journalist Marina Jiménez bunches all
the protesters as belonging to diverse anti-social movements and
says "It is the 'Summer of Resistance' for anti-globalization
activists. Protesters can fit their riots into their holiday
schedules."
And Sylvia Ostry, a scholar at the Munk Centre for International
Studies at the University of Toronto, says contemptuously and
ironically that Anti-Globalization is the business of "dissent.com...
One must be wary of the view that these loose and diverse coalitions
represent a new form of globalized participatory democracy."
And Dr. Anthony Daniels writes in the National Post "The anti-globalists
are attached to a worldview in which only oligarchs can display
undesirable qualities, and in which the common man is by definition
good and admirable. To preserve this worldview intact, they have to
invent a cabal of unscrupulous manipulators to hate and protest
violently against. This is supply-side resentment: They hate the
suppliers, not the consumers."
And
Prime Minister Jean Chretien, after defending democracy at the
Quebec summit at a price of $135-million and human rights
casualties, vowed yesterday he will not allow violent
anti-globalization protesters to "trash" a summit of industrialized
world leaders when Canada plays host next July.
Our elitist leadership is so purposely demented, they don't want
to realize yet they are the main cause of violence in this world.
David
Korten, a prominent social activist, has dedicated his book "When
Corporations Rule the World" to the courageous youth who put their
lives on the line in Seattle, Washington on November 30, 1999 and to
his life partner Dr. Frances Korten. And in this book, Korten
synthesizes the catastrophic consequences of Globalization,
including poverty, social disintegration, and environmental
destruction, and says "evidence of the resulting social stress is
everywhere: in rising rates of crime, drug abuse, divorce, teenage
suicide, and domestic violence... Violent crime is increasing at
alarming rates all around the world."
Violence has therefore become an endemic consequence of
Globalization. So, we have violence living with us day after day,
there is violence when social activists protest the Globalization
degenerative excesses, there is violence when our patriots celebrate
Canada Day, and there is violence when innocent people are killed by
the police here in Saskatchewan. And I have a question for our
Chretiens of the world, whom do you dedicate your Globalization's
works to?
References
Our summer of 'dissent.com' The business of protest has become so
organized, anti-globalization activists can peruse a Web site to
plan their summit-hopping. Critics wonder whether some people just
get a rush out of tossing rocks at police, Marina Jiménez, National
Post, July 11, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010711/615513.html
It's bad taste that makes the mob mad. Don't blame Wall Street or
a secret cabal for the ghastliness of global culture, Anthony
Daniels, National Post, June 23, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010623/599742.html
Chretien to move G8 to thwart protesters. 'There will be no town
trashed' in Canada, PM says, Robert Fife, Ottawa Bureau Chief,
National Post, July 12, 2001 http://www.nationalpost.com/home/story.html?f=/stories/20010712/616477.html
When Corporations Rule the World, by David C. Korten, 2nd Edition
2001, Cowboys in a Spaceship, page 30 http://iisd1.iisd.ca/pcdf/corprule/corporat.htm
This Is A Thursday Morning, by Timothy Shire, July 12, 2001
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