QUOTES
The
global economy works for about twenty percent of the world, for about eighty percent
it doesn't.
There's
two globalizations. There's the globalization of the elites, of the corporations,
represented by the World Bank, the IMF, the World Trade Organization. That's the
global state. It's a secret global government information. There's another globalization
that's grass roots globalization. The Fair Trade Networks, the Sister Cities,
Sister Schools, Citizen Diplomacy, the work we do at Global Exchange, linking
people up at the grass roots. That represents majority forces. The elite globalization
represents minority forces. The elite globalization is about make money. It's
money values. The people's globalization, the democratic mass globalization is
about life values. So you got two paradigms, the money cycle and the life cycle
and they're in contestation.
We
have a global economy that is not structured around democratizing and including
people in the decision-making. It's operated in secret.
A
momentous decision confronts us as a nation: Do we define the violence of Sept.
11 as an act of war or as a crime against humanity? If we define it as war, it
couches the issues in nationalist sentiment and separates us from the people of
other nations. If we define it as a crime against humanity, it holds the potential
for uniting humankind against the scourge of terrorism.
