STOP FEEDING THE BEAST: "GLOBAL SPENDING BOYCOTT"

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	• Alternatives to Economic Globalization John Cavanagh, Jerry Mander, ... Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 2002 - 350 pages average customer review:based on 13 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Preaching to the converted

This is a very important book that lays out workable solutions to the worst aspects of globalization. And it's nice to read a book that not only offers hope and solutions, but that goes beyond the 101 primers about globalization that are widely available. This book assumes you already know some of the issues and the problems that they create.

The downside to this is that it's unlikely to be a book read by the people who most need to read it. While the information is laid out clearly, it's not very readable; at times, it's even pretty dry. Personally, I would have found more examples helpful both in terms of illustrating the points and in giving a human face to the problems and their solutions. It's one thing to know how Monsanto is shutting down x-number of family farms; it would be another thing entirely to hear the story of a farmer who lost his livelihood due to a ridiculous Monsanto lawsuit.

So while it's nice to find something on the subject that's more challenging to read, I do wish it's something that the general public would be inclined to pick up and feel inspired by. The Forum has very, very important things to say about the future of work, the environment, and human life, but I'm afraid, given the format and style, that they're likely preaching to the converted.

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Essential reading

The authors of this incisive book issue a timely and essential wake-up call to all those who consider economic globalisation to be a positive, inevitable and irreversible process. The authors' clear and articulate arguments illustrate the extent to which a small rich and powerful corporate elite have pulled the wool over the eyes of the rest of us in selling a corporate model of global trade built on the poverty and suffering of the majority of the world's people. The book outlines a comprehensive and coherent alternative vision of a more just and sustainable world that is hard to argue with. Prepare to be both informed and inspired to campaign for a fairer world!

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STOP FEEDING THE BEAST: "GLOBAL SPENDING BOYCOTT"

The diet for the "beast" is MONEY. Stop feeding the beast MONEY and make your demands. But this is unlikely because even the "ANTI-GLOBALIZATIONITES" that despise "GLOBALIZATION" possess the same inherent GREED of the "beast"; they won't admit it though! By the way MR. GEORGE SOROS has no idea or understanding of economics - But isn't it funny how he just happens to be one of the WORLDS RICHEST PEOPLE and wrote a few books entitled: "The Crisis of Global Capitalism - Open Society Endangered" / "The Bubble of American Supremacy: Correcting the Misuse of American Power". SOLUTION - Short the USD and become RICH!

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Written by a premier group of thinkers from around the world, Alternatives to Economic Globalization is the defining document of the antiglobalization movement. The culmination of a three-year project by the International Forum on Globalization, whose members include Ralph Nader, David Korten, John Cavanagh, Lori Wallach, and Jerry Mander, it presents both a sober critique of globalization as well as practical, thoughtful alternatives. The authors assert ten core requirements for democratic societies, including equality, basic human rights, local decision making, and ecological sustainability, and demonstrate how globalization undermines each. Offering specific strategies for reining in corporate domination, they address alternative systems for energy, agriculture, transportation, and manufacturing; ideas for weakening or dismantling the WTO, World Bank, and IMF; and rebuilding economies that are responsive to human needs.

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