Winning and Losing the Globalization War
by Michael Tivana ... 4-18-02
Today, this week, this month is as wild as it gets. I just want to point out that in all the fury and flurry of news and events there are some important battles in the war we all face keeping life alive on the planet. The battles are being won and lost on a daily basis.
We the people won this battle....
April 18 - The U.S. Senate today rejected an effort by Alaska's Senators and the oil industry to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska to oil drilling. Strong opposition to oil drilling, including messages from over 70,000 Environmental Defense Action Network activists like you, helped sink this effort. This is a big victory for the environment, the wildlife that call the Arctic Refuge home, and for future generations.
Congratulations. The people do make a difference!
Privatization
There are many battles in the war against Globalization and one theater of engagement is privatization. The goal is to privatize or commercialize all aspects of our lives. Water, utilities, prisons, schools, hospitals, social security, and even out thoughts are privatized as intellectual property. In 2003 we saw DARPA suggest we privatize our intelligence reports by placing them on the stock market so people could bid on them coming ture --- or not. Privatization comes to us as the economic dagger of the Market Economy and displays the corrupt unethical side of captialism run amuck. Here is one story in the march to privatize our lives -- the book - "Surviving Globalization" has more.
Then we lost this ---
42 Philadelphia Schools Privatized
Forty-two of the city's low-performing middle and elementary schools are to be turned over to for-profit companies and universities as part of the nation's largest school privatization plan. This is an experiment, will it work? What are the goals? Make more money for the privateers?
Andrew Hopkins, a 16-year-old student at Simon Gratz High School, said he was willing to go to jail.
"It's worth it. We are talking about our education here. They shouldn't be giving these schools to private companies that care mostly about their own profits," he said. "We want a parent vote in every school they want to take over."
Privatization is a second level weapon being wielded in the bigger war of globalizing the world with the New World Order Market Ecomony while the people are being distracted by war. The new 'free market' economic system is what we are going to live with for decades if we let it occur. The NEw World Order of privatizing everything and eliminating government is taking away our democracy. The government is the voice of the people, without it how can the people expect to have any power to fight corrupt corporations?
Say NO! to privatizing the American Dream
Say NO! to the BUSH New World Order
Say No! to globalization
Say No! to corporate corruption
Say No! to frenkenfood
Say Yes! To organic farming
Say Yes! To Fair Trade
Say Yes! To a prosperous global community
More on the intentions of Edision - http://www.wsws.org/articles/2001/nov2001/phil-n29.shtml
Enough for now,
Tivana
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 excerpt from the book -
Beyond Iraq, Surviving Globalization
Privatizing
the American Dream
Privatization is the commercialization of our lives. The short definition of Privatization is: control of public property leased or licensed to private ‘for profit’ corporations. All around the world, the power holders are forcing privatization upon the people. They are deciding what corporations will own our public services. Who will run the water and other utilities, who will teach our schools, what corporation will our parks be named after, who will sell fast food at our swimming pools, collect our money at transportation tollbooths, run our ports, control our natural resources, operate our health services and any other public domains.
... Selling off public services to private industry doesn’t save the public money. It costs more to privatize and corporations aren’t libel when they go bankrupt. Privatization leaves taxpayers bearing the costs should the venture fail or be sued. Democracy is when the people take care of themselves instead of hiring out services that often deliver a poorer product for our schools, prisons (Corrections Corporation of America), and hospitals (Columbia) and utilities (Enron). Thus instead of supporting well-run, efficient government services, our tax dollars now subsidize the profit margins of multinational corporations; the stock options, investors interests, CEO salaries, law suit insurance etc.
- from the book
"Beyond Iraq, Surviving Globalization"
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