QUOTES
Public
opinion polls in the U.S. have shown overwhelmingly for several years that the
vast majority of the public--three-quarters--believes that large corporations
have too much economic and political power.
A
huge part of our power came from our moral authority ... the moral issue of debts
as being killers of millions of poor people around the world...I think our power
is also rooted in our intellectual power. I think there are a lot of strong leaders
around the world who have made very convincing arguments about the weakness of
corporate-led globalization and the compelling nature of alternatives.
The
strength of the movement is still something that you will never see on camera,
because it doesn't happen at the big protests. But the strength of this movement
is rooted in the strength of its components and of the campaigns of its components.
So there are farm movements around the world; there are environmental movements
around the world; labor movements around the world involved in daily struggles
around living wages, around protecting the rights of farmers to their seeds, and
so on. Those struggles continue on a daily basis; they have not gone away.
