[governance] “Do we want to be ruled by corporations or ruled democratically?”

[Norbert Klein]

>From the wider context of the Multistakeholder/Democracy discussion.

Interesting – though quite long: “Stop The Fast Track To A Future Of
Global Corporate Rule”

March 11, 2015

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


Some quotes:

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?...

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...

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...

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...

Why we do not want corporations to replace nations as decision makers...

How do we shrink the wealth divide that is impacting almost every
country, creating widespread poverty and strife?

End quotes.

Norbert Klein

Kep/Cambodia
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