Anti-globalists keep tensions high ahead of G8 summit...

[bridgit]

Run time: 03:22 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TnorR0qn9y0   Posted on YouTube: June 06, 2007 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 09, 2007 By DU Member: bridgit Views on DU: 867

 

[StudentsMustUniteNow]

1. All the kooky protesting should stop

It makes the anti-G8 protesters look like idiots. All the artsy demonstrations and walking around naked.

"Rave against the G8?" Yeah right. The guy is just using the G8 as a way of selling his music.

This shit never works.

[purduejake]

3. Some people do it for the experience...

Protests tend to bring about change by Uniting people. And people getting together singing, dancing, dressing up, doing whatever they do is a form of uniting. People say Pride parades make gays look like idiots, but creating some image for others is the least of my concern when I participate. I'm there for the experience as with any protests.

[bridgit]

4. that's true, Abby Hoffman pissed on the pentagon, the war was sooner stopped...

not only for that one act, but an amalgam of words, acts, deeds & yes, artful expression coming together :)

[nolabels]

2. Shouldn't it be Anti-fascists instead of Anti-globalists?

Like most people don't have too much problem with most others when they are from one spot of the globe or the other. It also seems to be that a lot of people are starting to figure out who and what is behind much of the strife in the world today. And of course the corporatist sponsored mouthpiece a.k.a. MSM would be dissing anybody that spoke against them, like what else would one expect :shrug:

[Deja Q]

5. If globalization was about expansion and not migration, I'd be all for it.

But it's hard to complete with another country whose economy makes the wages the US corporations wish to pay viable. More than viable.

Because our economy is shifted higher, the wages they would pay out are not livable in America.

If it is "globalization", how come nobody is vying to equalize the cost of living from nation to nation?

It's not globalization that's the problem. It's the current imbalance, and the imbalance must become balanced. How can that be accomplished?

And having read everything from "H1Bs will give Americans room to do bigger things" to "H1Bs will restore America's tech presence" while more high paying jobs are eliminated, it's weird the reasons for H1Bs keep changing... but I'm probably just missing something... after all, apartments in India cost from 3000-35000 per month. That's $75-$857. In America, it's rather higher... I'm nowhere near a high end neighborhood and it's $700/mo. Sources: http://www.indianrealtynews.com/category/property-prices/ (cost)
http://www.x-rates.com/calculator.html (currency converter)

[bridgit]

6. on a global scale, how is 'expansion' not 'migration', imo it's not even so much...

competing with another country, so much as it is improving the bottom lines of what have already been multi-national corporations for some time; the world is/and has been interconnected for some time, we here in america just presume we are the hinge that makes it all work, and where that may have been the case when we brought lofty poetries to the table i.e. freedom, liberty, justice for all, etc, there is no dispute that the income re-distribution is markedly less fair and that is the great lie of 'globalization' imfo...

making all those tar-paper shack folks across the world a little bit more wealthy :spray: while the upper crust has to hire people to count their money & carry it out in crates,

i mentioned it previous, but caught a number of the radio, the number was $8.75; that is the mean average wage that has been determined by these globalists that will sustain democracy,

too little and the rabble ignites into sheets of revolution creating unscheduled chaos..."unscheduled"? oh yes, chaos at that level is not near as random as one might think witness the cheney/bush/rove admin nd how they are hard pressed to break a sweat while the world burns all around them, but a 100,000 person mass of pitch forks & flaming torches marching behind gated communities is less than preferable, so our minimum wage is argued over some making more some making clearly less, but so long as everyone has access to broadband, and a new pair of Levi's made in china every so often meh...what's the prooobblem,

too much and the oligarchs chafe and that makes them unhappy, and we can't have that cause they want all the rest of the money that is not tacked down, as well they are prepared to legislate around that which is,

so that the mean average between provinces, for instance, in china, pakistan, out-backs elsewhere in the 3rd and soon to be 4th world making .25 ~ .50Ct's/hr; and some Halliburton/Blackwater/Exxon dudes making scads & oodles is supposed to equal $8.75 per hour worldwide = globally, and that will sustain the illusion of democracy, wages having been forced downward starting with Reagan, unions busted, etc...

a matrix/convergence i would think easy to chart, the odd-work of Adam Smith's 'invisible hand'...on a global scale

[idgiehkt]

7. amazing post, bridg

so this is where I have to come to read you at length. :hug: