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Summary
Summary
We are constantly bludgeoned into believing that there are no alternatives to globalization -- with its giant corporations in the driver's seat, dominating a 'free' market in reality shaped in accordance with their dictates. But there are alternatives. And the movement for global justice and solidarity is giving voice to them.
This collection brings together the most important themes and voices which these rapidly growing, diverse citizens' movements have expressed at the World Social Forum which gathers each year in Porto Alegre, Brazil. The global movement for justice and solidarity has become the major opposition to capital's contemporary globalization.
Its power emerges from the multiplicity of activists and organizations that make it up. But its diversity also poses a challenge -- how to articulate their different agendas into a shared set of proposals for alternative social models to neoliberal globalization. This book assembles some of their most constructive thinking around the key issues:
- Production for profit versus production for people
- Biohegemony versus biodiversity
- Westernization versus cultural diversity
- Corporate rule versus civil society
- Neoliberalism versus the reinvention of democracy
Here is a very different human -- and humane -- future. It is up to all of us, as active citizens, to think further about what it could be like, and to struggle against vested interests in order to achieve it.
Author Notes
Prof. William F. Fisher is Director of International Development, Community Planning and Environment (IDCE) at Clark University, USA.Thomas Ponniah was an Intern with the WSF Executive Secretariat from January 2002 to June 2002. He is a founding member of the Worcester Global Action Network in Massachusetts (an activist group that is part of the global justice/anti-globalization movement).
Table of Contents
PrefaceToni Negri and Michael Hardt |
IntroductionWilliam Fisher and Thomas Ponniah |
Part I The Production of Wealth and Social Reproduction |
Editors' IntroductionWilliam Fisher and Thomas Ponniah |
External Debt: "Abolish the Debt in Order Free Development"Eric Toussaint and Arnaud Zacharie |
Conference synthesisBernard Pinaud |
Africa/Brazil: First Synthesis of "Africa/Brazil"Jacques D'Adesky |
TranslatedClaudia Boal with revisions and Joris Van Mol |
Second Synthesis of "Africa/Brazil" Translated--Marialva Dorneles with revisionsJoris Van Mol |
Controls on Financial Capital: "Controls on Financial Capital"--ATTAC-France and translatedGermaine A. Hoston |
Conference SynthesisNicola Bullard |
International Trade: Synthesis for International TradeBernard Cassen |
TranslatedJoris Van Mol |
Transnational Corporations: "World Social Forum Conference on Transnational Corporations"Josh Karliner of Corp |
Watch and Kevin Danaher of Global Exchange |
Labour: "A Strategic Perspective on the International Trade Union Movement for the 21st Century" the Congress of South African Trade Unions |
"A Global Strategy for Labour"Jeff Faux |
The synthesis for the conference was translatedMariana de Lima Medeiros |
"Guiding Questions for the Conference" |
Solidarity Economy: "Resist and Build"--the Economic Solidarity Group of QuebecJean-Francois Aubin and Rene Lachapelle and Gerald Larose and Nancy Neantam |
ESGQ delegates to World Social Forum and Francois Lamarche, CSN delegate |
TranslatedClifford D. Croom |
"Guiding Questions for the Conference" |
"The Solidarity Economy: The Basis of a Humane Globalization"--The Working Group on the Solidarity Economy |
Part II Access to Wealth and Sustainability |
Editor's Introduction |
Knowledge, Copyright and Patents: "OXFAM discussion paper on |
Intellectual Property and the Knowledge Gap"--OXFAM England |
"The Life Sciences: Draft Contribution to the World Social Forum"Jean-Pierre Berlan |
SynthesisFrancois Houtart |
World Alternatives Forum |
Medicine, Health, AIDS: "Access to Medicine, the TRIPS Agreement and Public Health"--Doctors Without Borders |
Synthesis--Sonia Correa, DAWN Network-Brazil |
Environment and Sustainabity: "Goals of the Conference"Sara Larrain |
International Forum on Globalization |
"Peace Terms," "Declaration from the International Conference on Trade, Environment and Sustainable Development," "Living Democracy"Vandana Shiva |
Water - A Common Good: "Water, a Common Heritage of Humanity"Ricardo Petrella |
World Water Forum, Italy and Medha PatkarNarmada Bachoa Andolan |
SynthesisGlenn Switkes |
International Rivers Network, USA |
Indigenous Peoples: "Document from the Indigenous Commission" |
SynthesisPaulo Maldos |
Cities, Urban Populations: "Towns and Urban Populations"--CFCO |
SynthesisErminia Maricato |
Food Sovereignty: "Final Declaration--the World Forum on Food Sovereignty" |
"People's Right to Feed Themselves"--the APM World Network |
Synthesis--Francisco Menezes of IBASE, Brazil |
Part III The Affirmation of Civil Society and Public Space |
Editors' Introduction |
Combating Discrimination and Intolerance: "Combating Discrimination and |
Intolerance" |
"Against Fundamentalisms, People are Fundamental" |
Synthesis--Lilian Celiberti, Articulation of Women, Marco-Sur, Urug |