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From the wider context of the Multistakeholder/Democracy discussion.<br>
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Interesting –
though quite long: “Stop The Fast Track To A Future Of Global
Corporate Rule”<br>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">March 11, 2015</p>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.eurasiareview.com/11032015-stop-the-fast-track-to-a-future-of-global-corporate-rule-oped/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29">http://www.eurasiareview.com/11032015-stop-the-fast-track-to-a-future-of-global-corporate-rule-oped/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+eurasiareview%2FVsnE+%28Eurasia+Review%29</a>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Some quotes:</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">We are in the midst
of a critical political conflict over the future of global
governance. Do we want to be ruled by corporations or ruled
democratically?...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">For the first time
texts of international agreements have been classified so that
members of Congress have had very limited access and are not able
to
discuss what they’ve read. These are more than trade agreements.
The portions that have been leaked show that they will affect
everything that we care about from the food we eat to the jobs we
have to the health of the planet...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The WEF uses
language very similar to what social movements use. For example,
the
WEF claims it seeks “bottom-up” decision-making, but does not
define what that would look like. For social movements, this means
less hierarchy, public participation, transparency, democracy and
governments listening to the people at the bottom, rather than
taking
their cue from the elites at the top...
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">The WEF promotes a
philosophy couched in the concept of “multi-stakeholderism,”
another idea consistent with the view of social movements that the
world is not unipolar, it has many actors. The WEF uses this
concept
to give transnational corporations, undemocratic non-state actors,
decision-making power, while social movements see big business
already having too much influence...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Why we do not want
corporations to replace nations as decision makers...</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">How do we shrink
the
wealth divide that is impacting almost every country, creating
widespread poverty and strife?</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">End quotes.<br>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; line-height: 100%">Norbert Klein</p>
Kep/Cambodia
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