The world-wide peasant movement La Via Campesina, celebrates its 20th anniversary this year. Ibrahima Coulibaly of Mali, part of La Via Campesina network, described at the World Social Forum in Tunis the threat of multinational corporations:
“Agribusiness and transnational corporations are a major threat to the world. They consume too many resources. They control the best land, and are grabbing even more land everywhere. Instead of producing food for people, they produce crops for export markets– bio-fuels for cars or animal feed for industrial meat factories. But farmers are also uniting globally and we will defend our lands.”
Another world isn't just possible; it makes sense. Our world feels like it is becoming smaller. Distances seem to be overcome faster. National borders easier to cross, family and friends even though spread all over the world, seem to be just a click away. There are global media networks, where people from all over the world are not only consuming news, but are also contributing by social networks. Companies are working on international levels, due to online communication it doesn't matter whether employees work from their computers in Nanking, New York or Nairobi. They work together as if they were in one office. People from all corners of the planet are taking part in educational online courses. They join from various cultural backgrounds to study one specific issue. We living in "one world", in a single world community. At theWorld Social Forum participants from all over the world are thinking about how they can help to create initiatives that deal with global problems. They seek goals that do not separate them - but rather seek solutions for common problems.
The world capitalist economy is neither sustainable, nor just. Sharing is anathema to capitalism, the explicit purpose of which is to amass large sums of money and property and decidedly NOT share very much of it. Capitalism controls our lives it forces us to do things that can only be described as sociopathic. The reason millions people starve to death in the world each year is because we allow it to happen by supporting capitalism when there is a clear alternative .
For or a world community, socialists argue that we need much more than just seeking common ground. We need to abolish the borders of nation states, unite humanity and create common ownership.
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“Agribusiness and transnational corporations are a major threat to the world. They consume too many resources. They control the best land, and are grabbing even more land everywhere. Instead of producing food for people, they produce crops for export markets– bio-fuels for cars or animal feed for industrial meat factories. But farmers are also uniting globally and we will defend our lands.”
Another world isn't just possible; it makes sense. Our world feels like it is becoming smaller. Distances seem to be overcome faster. National borders easier to cross, family and friends even though spread all over the world, seem to be just a click away. There are global media networks, where people from all over the world are not only consuming news, but are also contributing by social networks. Companies are working on international levels, due to online communication it doesn't matter whether employees work from their computers in Nanking, New York or Nairobi. They work together as if they were in one office. People from all corners of the planet are taking part in educational online courses. They join from various cultural backgrounds to study one specific issue. We living in "one world", in a single world community. At theWorld Social Forum participants from all over the world are thinking about how they can help to create initiatives that deal with global problems. They seek goals that do not separate them - but rather seek solutions for common problems.
The world capitalist economy is neither sustainable, nor just. Sharing is anathema to capitalism, the explicit purpose of which is to amass large sums of money and property and decidedly NOT share very much of it. Capitalism controls our lives it forces us to do things that can only be described as sociopathic. The reason millions people starve to death in the world each year is because we allow it to happen by supporting capitalism when there is a clear alternative .
For or a world community, socialists argue that we need much more than just seeking common ground. We need to abolish the borders of nation states, unite humanity and create common ownership.
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