Globalization

"Is globalization reversible?" asked Michael Moore, Director-General of the World Trade Organization. "Yes, if we go mad," responded Martin Wolf, former senior economist at the World Bank's division for international trade.
Reversible or not--and I don't think it is in a world of computers--it can be a marvelous thing, but there is something wrong with the way it's going. The trouble is that what we have is corporate globalization. The multinational corporations are in charge, and they have an agenda: maximize profit, deregulate, and privatize. This is making a lot of people miserable. What we should have is what might be called, for want of a better term, "globalization from below." What we want is a worldwide movement for peace and for the welfare of ordinary people.
Young (mostly) people all over the world are on the Internet, and this can be an amazing tool to remake the world. Its potential is mind-boggling. But we'll have to see that it remains free and accessible. Just today I heard a report that the U.S. Congress is trying to find a way to control it. And of course other political leaders have been trying as hard as they can to do that.
So we must get on the Internet and make globalization go the way we want. And we need a name for it that fits our goals.