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ProtestThe usual image associated with anti-globalisation campaigning is one of protest - very often leading to violence. Sadly the press seem more interested in portraying the clashes with police, and forget that behind the anger there is a significant body of evidence that suggests that the globalisation of our economy is bad for the environment, bad for the third world, bad for workers, and bad for democracy.GATSExeter Friends of the Earth is concentrating it's campaign currently on GATS: the General Agreement on Trade in Services. This is a new WTO agreement which aims to give multi-national corporations greater opportunities to expand their trading operations. |
Globalisation of the EconomyHardly a day goes by without a new disaster or crisis looming. Global warming, Storms, Floods, Extinction of Species, Rising Job Insecurity, Crime and Alienation, Breakdown of Communities, Poverty in the Third World.The list is endless. We are taught to see these as separate issues with separate problems. But, in reality, these problems are merely symptoms of a far greater and more fundamental problem. It is our Economic System which relies on more growth, more consumption and more waste - all spurred on by the concept of 'Free Trade'. Economic Globalisation has become the greatest threat to life on this planet. Exeter Friends of the Earth have teamed up with other groups locally, to concentrate on this one issue; Click here for the Exeter Trade Justice Campaign website. |
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