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To: Thomas M. who wrote (11779)	2/22/2002 12:35:21 PM
From: GUSTAVE JAEGER	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23908

As I told you (on the Free Trade is Squeezing You thread).... Straight from the horse's mouth: FEATURE STORY \| March 11, 2002 From Protest To Politics by MARC COOPER Porto Alegre, Brazil thenation.com Excerpt (from page 4): Overall, the Americans kept a low profile in the [Porto Alegre] forum, deferring to the Europeans and Latin Americans, who were recognized as being vastly more experienced in building oppositional social and political movements. But they were treated with respect: Superstar attention was lavished on Chomsky, and Americans Lori Wallach from Public Citizen and Sarah Anderson of the Institute for Policy Studies were on headliner panels. [...] __________________ Indeed, this "anti-globalization" circus is basically a Euro-South-American sting.... think of it as a makeshift syndicate of losers --the global economy's losers, that is. Both Latin America and Europe share the same Eurocentric, colonialist worldview, and both despise the US indiscriminate free-for-all model, a meritocratic model that allows a relentless shakeup of the American fabric and, eventually, the successful co-optation of all minorities. Of course, that's not the way our Porto-Alegrean Evangelists are gonna brand it: instead, they'll lament about the hopeless Africans, Indian children in the toils of unscrupulous corporations, etc, etc. Or they'll freak you out with Frankenfood and genetically modified crops --but hey, don't ask them why the Chinese and most of Asia are nuts about it (they have about 3 billion people to feed). Moreover, Europe still clings to its enduring colonial consuetudes.... Although Europe's former colonial powers can no longer enforce it abroad --since their withdrawal from Africa, Indochina, the Middle East,... after WWII-- they're somehow implementing it at home! As more and more immigrants pour into Europe, the colonial model gets a new life.... Gus