Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Globalization coming home to the West?


...In short, “globalization” is coming home to the countries that helped create it. The rich economies of the global north, which long relied on the exploitation of southern peoples and economies, are coming under the same restrictions they once imposed on the rest of the world.

Though many poor people in these countries have long suffered from domestic exploitation, this wave of budgets cuts threatens to expose new, harsher realities for both the poor and middle-classes.

This is where this movement comes from; from Tunis to Wisconsin and back over to Barcelona, similar economic shifts caused by integration into the “global economy” have brought millions into the streets because the economic situations facing them are threatening to put millions more into poverty....
Read the whole post at Even If Your Voice Shakes via TruthOut, “Globalization” Is Coming Home by Ryan Harvey

The message: “We will not pay for their crisis!”

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