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Is the trade justice movement any good?

tom | 19.06.2002 17:37

they seem to be quite blairite

It seems that those who protested at parliament today were in favour of removal of all 'barriers to trade' in favour of complete globalisation. personally i think localisation is the way forward for culture, the environmental, and a fairer wealth distribution. the fair trade lobby seem to support blairs dream of a wordlwide trade free-for-all.

tom

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Free trade?

19.06.2002 19:26

The 'Trade Justice Movement' is made up of loads of different NGOs and individuals, so any generalisation is a bit difficult to be honest. They were certainly portrayed today as calling for 'free trade for all', but also have a lot of streams of thought within their movement calling for localisation and sane trade.

Basically, I think the media couldn't be arsed to cover all the points the Trade Justice people were making, and so just assumed they were calling for total free trade.

After all, free trade must be good, innit?

:)

Matt

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