Re: Transfers from North to South (RE:Keeping focus after the WTO

["Patrick Bond" <pbond@xxxxxxxxxx>]

No charity, though, Nathan. The key point of the growing South
reparations movement, and particularly in the anti-debt and
environmental justice sectors, is that the North owes the South not
the other way 'round.

On 11 Dec 99, at 15:26, Nathan Newman wrote:
> And so on.   In the ideal, fair trade and labor standards would be
> associated with a global unemployment fund-- we are obviously a few
> iterations of reform away from that point, but the post-Seattle organizing
> has to make economic solidarity and transfers a key part of combatting the
> argument that free traders are the ones dedicated to helping the third
> world poor.