----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Perelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> I would rather call for the strengthening of the International Labor > Organization than the WTO. Any organization that emphasizes trade rather > than people's lives is not likely to do much good. ================= I would second that as long as we can encourage people to ask about what kinds of freedom trade facilitates in order to 'dig a bit deeper' into how we produce/create [un]freedoms. When lefties frame the trade issue in terms of poverty eradication, democracy and ecological sanity, we can win the argument every time. This is an issue that should play to our strengths. > On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 08:27:06PM -0700, Sabri Oncu wrote: > > Monbiot: > > > > I am not sure if I agree with this. It would have been nice of > > course if we can transform the World Trade Organization (WTO) > > into a Fair Trade Organization (FTO), but one question I have is > > this: > > > > Is the WTO transformable into an FTO? ====================== As I live in 'the North' I would rather hear from others even as I think that many in 'the South' are vehemently against the Bretton Woods paradigm, given my limited sampling of opinions. There's a new cosmo-eco-politics struggling to be born that's not like what happened between 1873-1918 and we need to understand and help create it > > Who knows where the road may lead us, only a fool would say > > Who knows what's been lost along the way > > Look for the promised land in all of the dreams we share > > How will we know when we are there? How will we know? > > << > > > > Best, > > > > Sabri ======================== There is no promised land, there's evolution and us; an open-ended adventure..................... Ian
