Topic started by Vishvesh Obla (@ 1cust173.tnt1.albany.ny.da.uu.net) on Sat Mar 17 18:44:43 .
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A heartening thing that is happening all over the world today is that we see a protest against Globalization , not in the backward left oriented third world countries, but in the G7 countries itself. Last year there was a manly protest in US itself, which has spearheaded the inhuman concept of Globalization. There was another massive one it Italy today which eventually received what all such human protests end up with : a beat-up by the police and a distortion by the media. But the thing to note is that the modern capitalist concept of Globalization has failed as exemplified by these protests. It gives hope than Mankind has not entirely lost its trace of human-ness and its belief that life as it ought to be lived not just belongs to a few countries alone.

I paste this message in this forum for the concept of Globalization has a special context in shaping the future of India. For further information about the recent protest at Italy please refer to this link:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1226000/1226593.stm

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• From: Vishvesh Obla (@ alb-24-195-114-31.nycap.rr.com) on: Wed Dec 25 13:04:53
  
  
  Question : I belong to a farmer family and myself am a farmer. Farmers were exploited even when there was no globalisation. And I totally agree with you globalisation is going to lead (to) neocolonisation, but we can't be out of globalisation. WTO is a ground reality - no country can get out of it like you have suggested.
  Vandana Shiva: WTO rules are written on pieces of paper - as I mentioned in my lecture they're not God given. And therefore they are not ground reality in the way the soil and the Ganges are ground realities that can't be changed. These are rules that need to be changed - that was the message of Seattle and the way to change them is to bring consideration of people's livelihoods, sustainable use of resources at the heart of every step of trade decisions, and to ensure that trade rules reflect sustainability and the right of people to have security.
  
  
  Dr.Vandana Shiva, apart from the fact that she is a noted ecologist, has been a brilliant spokesperson talking sensibly about Globalization and how we could resist it in the larger interests of mankind.
  
  A very good article of her is found at
  http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/static/events/reith_2000/lecture5.stm
  
  In this article, she makes a brilliant distinction between yield and output in agriculture, and how Globalization emphasizes on Yield alone to its benefit, but causing ruin in the long run. She makes some very important inferences s to how destruction itself is counted as growth from the point of view of Globalization.
  
  The article also emphasizes that the anti-Globalization protests all over the world are not merely driven by political ideologies, but by sensible people who want to sustain livable standards of life for mankind in general on long term solutions.
  
  
• From: V (@ alb-24-195-114-31.nycap.rr.com) on: Wed Dec 25 13:06:53
  
  Read the 's' in the fourth paragraph second line as 'as'
  
  

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