"THE GLOBALIZATION DIVIDE is a special videobridge, an interactive television program linking Davos, Switzerland and Porto Alegre, Brazil, during the World Economic and the World Social Forums (January 25-30, 2001). The two events, planned in parallel, will be articulating two different visions of globalization and its effects:/" http://www.attac.org/live/indexen.htm "The new century is starting in Porto Alegre. All kinds of people, each in their own ways, have been contesting and critiquing neo-liberal globalisation, and many of them will be gathering in this southern Brazilian city on 25-30 January for the first World Social Forum (1). This time they won't just be protesting - as they were in Seattle, Washington, Prague and elsewhere - against the world-wide injustices, inequalities and disasters created by the excesses of capitalism (see the article by Bernard Cassen). This time, in a positive and constructive spirit, they will be working towards creating a practical and theoretical framework for a new kind of globalisation. They are fired by a belief in the possibility of a new world that is less inhumane, more inclined to solidarity." http://www.monde-diplomatique.fr/en/2001/01/01portoalegre "For decades, these international financial institutions have been making decisions that affect the lives of people all over the world, without being subject to any sort of democratic control. People in Third World countries, as well as the poor and excluded sectors of industrialized countries suffer the devastating effects of economic globalization and the dictatorship of international institutions such as the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and the governments that serve their interests. We need to continue pressuring these institutions to be accountable to our societies. Similarly, our governments must be made aware that this oversight will be exercised with increasing intensity over their actions. Many of us have struggled in our own countries, regions, or cities, thinking that we were isolated. Recently, we have begun to realize that together we can constitute a planetary archipelago of resistance. The World Social Forum represents a new opportunity toward the construction of an international counter-power." http://attac.org/geneve2000/textes/doc/fsmen.htm Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana. I, myself, like Butterflies flapping their wings.