Am I from the third world?

Jim heartfield jim at heartfield.demon.co.uk
Wed Mar 15 11:38:04 PST 2000


This is the most interesting post all week, thanks.

In message <006b01bf8ded$87562ac0$bbd5cfd8 at teddace>, Dace <edace at flinthills.com> writes
>Jaggi Singh quotes Sanjay Mangala Gopal, the co-coordinator of the National
>Alliance of People's Movements saying: "We will define our own way of
>development and we are capable of doing it. Who are you to teach us about
>child labour or anything else?" These are not words spoken by a
>hypocritical Indian capitalists or government officials. This expression of
>oppositiion to labor standards comes from the leader of a major coalition of
>125 grassroots organizations who have been in the forefront of the
>leadership of the international resistance to globalization. R. Geetha, a
>union and women's rights activist based in Madras, comments: "Who are they
>to impose conditions on Third World countries? People are starving here!
>Why the hell should they tell us what kind of economy we should have?"

-- Jim heartfield



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