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Ongoing Struggles Algeria | Argentina | Benin | Bolivia | Burkina Faso | Ecuador | Malawi | Mozambique | India | Indonesia | Niger | Nigeria | Pakistan | Paraguay | Puerto Rico | South Africa | Thailand | Zimbabwe India India,
the WTO and Capitalist Globalization "...In the forceful words of R. Geetha, a union and women’s rights activist based in Madras, 'Who are they [the West] to impose conditions on third-world countries? People are starving here! Why the hell should they tell us what kind of economy we should have?' Meanwhile, Medha Patkar, a leading organizer of the Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA, a more-than-decade long mass movement against destructive development and displacement in the Narmada River Valley of India) is not shy in saying: 'The ultimate goal is to say no to the WTO. We’re against the whole capitalist system...'" Narmada
Dam Campaign "At a point when the Ministry of Environments and Forests in India was unwilling to clear the Sardar Sarovar Project, the World Bank enabled the project to start with a loan of $450 million. After a massive campaign against the Bank's role in the project and its violation of its own guidelines, the Bank appointed an (unprecedented) Independent Commission to review the project. Instead of suggesting minor changes and adjustments, the commission recommended that the Bank withdraw from the project. The Bank finally had to bow to international pressure and quit the project." Read about the story behind the Bank's role in the SSP in the chapter [The Holiest River] on Narmada in Masters of Illusion : The World Bank and the Poverty of Nations by Catherine Caufield. Read Arundhati Roy's article The Greater Common Good (April 1999) |