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World Economic Forum in Big Apple |
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by Robert Kendall
Email: aword (nospam) somethingorother.com (unverified!)
Address: Bloomington |
24 Jan 2002
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The World Economic Forum is coming to party in the destruction they caused. |
The last week of January and the first week of February will prove to be a test for New York City. Where capitalists are concerned, New York has not suffered enough in the past year, as they have now planned to hold the meeting of their most exclusive and elite club there. Many New Yorkers have accused the World Economic Forum of coming to party on the rubble, opportunistically exploiting the city for sanctity against the mass demonstrations that have coincided with the club's meeting for years.
The World Economic Forum is comprised of 3000 or so of the richest people in the world, with affiliates paying $30,000 dollars a year to be included. The club’s roster includes such influential names as Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and recently elected NYC Mayor, Michael Bloomberg. Companies being represented at the forum include such perennial favorites as Nike, General Electric, Monsanto and McDonalds.
The WEF has been gaining power and momentum since its formation in the 1970s, and some consider it to be more powerful and influential than the United Nations. Frighteningly, this may be true, as the most devastating treaty of the modern age; the World Trade Organization was spawned through this meeting. The World Economic Forum, unlike the U.N., is not legally held responsible to anyone and not a single member was elected to represent the populations they have effected with their decisions.
For a variety of reasons, it cannot be argued that the members who hold elected positions were chosen to represent the people in the WEF. For one, a very small portion of the voting public even knows of this elite club. Two, most of the members that are in elected positions were members, holding the agenda of the Forum in mind, before and while they were being elected. And three, some nations' leaders, the U.S. included, were by no legal means elected.
It comes as no surprise to the WEF that mass protests are planned for the week they are to be hobnobbing in the rubble. Every meeting they have held in recent years has been met by thousands of well-informed demonstrators who have various issues with the elitist group. Issues in the past have ranged from environmental concerns, to human rights. But the WEFs $30,000 membership price tag has kept them safe from actually being face to face with the opposition. This year, war, racism, and unemployment compensation rather than corporate bailouts are to be on the list of issues to be raised, as well as the lingering environmental and human rights concerns. And the cowering elitists will hide behind the NYPD Blue in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, as they go about bragging and tallying the profits they have incurred from their latest joint investment, the 'War On Terrorism'.
As they come together to celebrate atop the graves of thousands, again at the expense of taxpayers, will they consider how they are responsible for those graves? For if the attacks of September 11 were indeed perpetrated by foreigners, then was it not the WEFs policies of putting profits before populations that raised the ire of third world nations? Was it not these people, who have sought to rob the resources of poorer nations and have funded armies to enact violence on their own people that motivated the attack on the international symbol of capitalism?
By having the audacity to come and celebrate where innocents so recently suffered vengeance that was directed at them, I’d say they couldn't care less. |
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