Barbara Garson on WEF

["Ian Murray" <seamus2001@xxxxxxxxx>]

[from Focus on Trade]

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Though it frightens me to realize it, we, who are so often called
"anti-
globalists," will have to come up with new global rules that work
for the
common good.  Our chants outside meetings like this one are the
only
voices suggesting to the public that another world is possible.
So even
though I'm an investor, I'm going to be outside the Waldorf Hotel
in NYC
on February 2, shouting as loud as I can.

* Barbara Garson is the author of "Money Makes the World Go Around:
One Investor Tracks Her Cash Through the Global Economy from
Brooklyn to Bangkok and Back" Penguin Paperback Feb 2002. See
review below.

PS:  The new Patriot Act makes it difficult for lawyers to help any
non US
citizen arrested at a demonstration.  We advise non-citizens to
keep
well away from the police even at this peaceful, legal activity.
As a
matter of fact, our lawyers tell us that the Patriot Act defines
terrorism so
vaguely (intimidation meant to change a government's policy) that a
march or rally against neo-liberal economics could in certain
climates
get us all defined as terrorists.  As citizens we would at least
have the
opportunity to challenge the law.   That makes it a good time for
non-
citizens to use caution and for citizens to come out in great
numbers to
defend our right to demonstrate.

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