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"The Globalization of humanity is a natural, biological, evolutionary process. Yet we face an enormous crisis because the most central and important aspect of globalization-its economy-is currently being organized in a manner that so gravely violates the fundamental principles by which healthy living systems are organized that it threatens the demise of our whole civilization. -- Elisabet Sahtouris We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems. -- Elisabet Sahtouris

The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public. -- George Bernard Shaw, 1928

A key issue in managing globalization is therefore how we organise the global investmentand labour markets to meet the needs of flexibility for enterprises, security for workers and quality for consumers. We need new proactive policies that focus directly on how authorities in the public and private sphere can blend economic and social policies with an enabling environment for private initiative to create market opportunities for Decent Work. -- Juan Somavia

I think the team that successfully puts together an economic and social policy framework for global full employment in decent working conditions based on local development, that would command the support of all stakeholders and all international organizations concerned, should be awarded the [Nobel] prize. I am sure they would get it not just for economics, but also for peace in the world.
-- Juan Somavia

I think the greedy corporate owners have to be confronted with the fact that they are ignoring their most powerful resource -- their workers.
-- John Sweeney, 1995

There is a growing consensus that Globalization must now be reshaped to reflect values broader than simply the freedom of capital.
-- John Sweeney

Clearly, the Global Economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
-- John Sweeney

We can no longer allow multi-nationalists to parade as agents of progress and democracy in the newspapers, even as they subvert it at the workplace.
—John Sweeney

Did you ever expect a corporation to have a conscience, when it has no soul to be damned, and nobody to be kicked?
-- Lord Chancellor Thurlow

It is absolutely sure that if globalization is not founded on moral values not only will fail but will bring about global calamities. -- George Vithoulkas

Contrary to the received wisdom, global markets are not unregulated. They are regulated to produce inequality.
-- Kevin Watkins

"I'm helping to create an economic system that will respect and protect the earth -- one which would replace corporate globalization with a global network of local living economies. Business is beautiful when it's a vehicle for serving the common good." -- Judy Wicks

Since trade ignores national boundaries and the manufacturer insists on having the world as a market, the flag of his nation must follow him, and the doors of the nations which are closed against him must be battered down. Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process. Colonies must be obtained or planted, in order that no useful corner of the world may be overlooked or left unused. -- Woodrow Wilson, 1919

Since I entered politics, I have chiefly had men's views confided to me privately. Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it."
-- Woodrow Wilson

Globalization

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GLOBALIZATION
HERO PIX

Kofi Annan | Maude Barlow | Kevin Danaher
Albert Einstein | Dwight Eisenhower | Michael Lerner

Workers Day - May 1
Fair Trade Day - 2nd Sat in May
End Poverty Day - October 17
Buy Nothing Day - 4th Fri in November