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To: philv who wrote (20222)2/19/2004 3:49:24 PM
From: sea_urchin  Read Replies (2) of 81889
 
Phil > I have become alarmed at the growth of Corporate power and its implications. This is the New World Order, an unwritten pact or brotherhood between the great International Corporations and Government, and each one feeding upon and supporting the other.

The choices for "ordinary" people are indeed becoming harder and harder. Even if one sees the problem, what can one do about it? Take on the government? Become an enemy of the state? Those are not easy choices for those who are used to a comfortable middle-class existence --- and who wish the same for their children. Very easy to talk about being a "revolutionary" but damn hard to be one --- and then end up in jail for the rest of one's life.

Here's a very good piece by Ms Arundhati Roy which addresses these questions:

informationclearinghouse.info

She concludes as follows:

>>>How do we begin to mount our resistance?

Let's start with something really small. The issue is not about supporting the resistance in Iraq against the occupation or discussing who exactly constitutes the resistance. (Are they old Killer Ba'athists, are they Islamic Fundamentalists?)

We have to become the global resistance to the occupation.

Our resistance has to begin with a refusal to accept the legitimacy of the U.S. occupation of Iraq. It means acting to make it materially impossible for Empire to achieve its aims. It means soldiers should refuse to fight, reservists should refuse to serve, workers should refuse to load ships and aircraft with weapons. It certainly means that in countries like India and Pakistan we must block the U.S. government's plans to have Indian and Pakistani soldiers sent to Iraq to clean up after them.

I suggest that at a joint closing ceremony of the World Social Forum and Mumbai Resistance, we choose, by some means, two of the major corporations that are profiting from the destruction of Iraq. We could then list every project they are involved in. We could locate their offices in every city and every country across the world. We could go after them. We could shut them down. It's a question of bringing our collective wisdom and experience of past struggles to bear on a single target. It's a question of the desire to win.

The Project For The New American Century seeks to perpetuate inequity and establish American hegemony at any price, even if it's apocalyptic. The World Social Forum demands justice and survival.

For these reasons, we must consider ourselves at war. <<<

Fighting words --- but is the pen really mightier than the sword? Or the dollar?!
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