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To: elmatador who wrote (60037)	2/5/2005 9:13:33 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 74559

elmat, There's a saying that "Brazil is the country of the future, and it always will be." Generally, this is repeated by supercilious New Yawk and London traders. I'm beginning to see that perhaps the future will arrive. :) I find it quite gratifying that Brazil is going to press to create a G10 or G11. And I'm even more pleased that this transformation to economic superpower is occurring under the watchful eye of Lula de Silva, rather than the abysmally corrupt Menem crowd. It gives me hope that there is perhaps some justice in this world. :) So, we can be allies about the economics of the BRIC countries and their ascendancy. But we'll remain on opposite sides as far as the World Social Forum is concerned. To me, the WSF is an extension 100 years on of the wonderful and effective Progressive Movement here in the U.S.A. Many, if not most, of the advances that created a vibrant and successful middle class in America were due to the Progressive Movement. In 1900, 90% of people in the U.S.A. were living in poverty. Then came the Progressives, fighting for a Civil Service to eliminate the corrupt practices of political patronage (which George Bush is hellbent to bring back ASAP), fighting for the 8 hour work day, the end of child labor, the right of working people to organize against amoral corporatists, the right to free public education, the right to a decent old age, the right to clean air and water, and the right for races to be granted the same civil rights. This is what the WSF is all about, on a larger stage today. And that is why I was so aghast when you sniffily dismissed the very sincere and very decent people who gathered at Porto Allegre to point out to the world that the present system of corrupt war mongering and sleazy financial scheming isn't the only way forward. That indeed, "another world is possible". I'm disappointed that you've become so enmeshed in the corporate parasite world that you cannot see the bleak future that that the corporatists have in mind for your daughter. A world of prisons. A world where even the rich find it necessary to imprison themselves in gated communities, fearing for their lives, their money and their way of life because they've stolen it all from the rest of humanity. Such a bleak future is our fate if we let the corporate monsters rule as they see fit. I firmly believe that..... Another World Is Possible.