arch/ive/ief (2000 - 2005)

In this groundbreaking pamphlet, Lori Wallach and Michelle Sforza, directors of Ralph Nader's Public Citizen group examine the World Trade Organization's track record, demonstrating how the WTO aims to create a new global economic system that increases corporate profit with little regard for social and ecological impacts, or democratically enacted law. Wallach and Sforza make clear recommendations for altering the undemocratic course that the WTO imposes on democratic society.
"When you cut through the corporate propaganda about the benefits of globalization and really look at the 5 year track record of the WTO what you'lll find is a slow motion coup d'etat, a low intensity war waged to redefine free society—democracy and its non-commercial health, safety and other protections—as subordinate to the dictates of big business. In the U.S., if we do not make the connection between our local problems and the corporate drive for economic and political control, then others will be blamed for these unavoidable and increasing problems. "It's the immigrants!" "It's the welfare system!" "It's greedy farmers or workers" "It's the regulatory agencies!" Allowing such camouflage of the real causes of our problems means a massive diversion of our focus, dividing people against each other to the further benefit of mega-corporations. Thus, what we face now is a race against time: How can citizens most effectively mobilize a reversal of the expanding corporatized globalization agenda while we defend our democratic spaces, instincts and institutions from further assault? Step one: read this pamphlet and pass it on." —Ralph Nader

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