The Protest Ethic: How the Anti-globalisation Movement Challenges Social Democracy

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Demos, 2001 - 94 páginas
"Argues that by making small, haphazard concessions to the anti-globalisation protesters, the cause of bringing peace and prosperity to the developing world will actually be hindered." - cover.

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Página 46 - ... corporate obsession with brand identity is waging a war on public and individual space: on public institutions such as schools, on youthful identities, on the concept of nationality and on the possibilities for unmarketed space.
Página 22 - ... in the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th centuries. The most reliable data concerning visual weak shower radiants (about 2000), whose velocities had been determined, were used.
Página 13 - ... faiths; and above all justice and prosperity for the poor and dispossessed, so that people everywhere can see the chance of a better future through the hard work and creative power of the free citizen, not the violence and savagery of the fanatic.
Página 47 - ... amount of production out of this swath of land. Windowless workshops made of cheap plastic and aluminum siding are crammed in next to each other, only feet apart. Racks of time cards bake in the sun, making sure the maximum amount of work is extracted from each worker, the maximum number of working hours extracted from each day. The streets in the zone are eerily empty, and open doors — the ventilation system for most factories — reveal lines of young women hunched in silence over clamoring...
Página 47 - Inside, it's obvious that the row of factories, each with its own gate and guard, has been carefully planned to squeeze the maximum amount of production out of this swath of land. Windowless workshops made of cheap plastic and aluminum siding are crammed in next to each other, only feet apart. Racks of time cards bake in the sun, making sure the maximum amount of work is extracted from each worker, the maximum number of working hours extracted from each day. The streets in the zone are eerily empty,...
Página 63 - Hostility toward America is a religious duty, and we hope to be rewarded for it by God .... I am confident that Muslims will be able to end the legend of the so-called superpower that is America.
Página 64 - No man should be interfered with on account of his religion, and every one should be allowed to change his religion, if he liked. If a Hindu woman falls in love with a Muhammedan, and changes her religion, she should be taken from him by force, and be given back to her family.
Página 47 - ... and isolated inside the zone as if it were toxic waste: pure, 100 percent production at low, low prices. Cavite, like the rest of the zones that compete with it, presents itself as the buy-in-bulk Price Club for multinationals on the lookout for bargains — grab a really big shopping cart. Inside it's obvious that the row of factories, each with its own gate and guard, has been carefully planned to squeeze the maximum amount of production out of this swath of land. Windowless workshops made...
Página 17 - The proposals to fight poverty go against the macro-political rules imposed by institutions such as the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank, the World Trade Organization, and the operational agencies of the United Nations (the FAO, UNDP, etc.).
Página 44 - The strate$es employed by the World Bank to guarantee the hegemony of Its ideology and to deal with dissenters also correspond to those of fundamentalism . . . [The Bank] not only denies the legitimacy of alternatives, but has actively sought, over the past decade, to ensure that all of the options available...

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John Lloyd produced Not the Nine O'Clock New, the Blackadders, and Spitting Image.

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