Bill Gates takes rich to task

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Feb 4 12:24:08 PST 2002


[from a WEF press release]

At 12:15 PM -0500 2/4/02, Charles McLean, Director, Communications, World Economic Forum wrote:


>Turning to the challenges to corporate power by demonstrators on the New
>York streets during the Annual Meeting, Gates said: "It's a healthy thing
>there are demonstrators in the streets. We need a discussion about whether
>the rich world is giving back what it should in the developing world. I
>think there is a legitimate question whether we are."



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