SDF:
: I have to wonder if the site I suggested isn't a little too monochromatic in its suggestion of union organizing as the main solution to the problems of globalization. I myself was more interested in the site's discussion of global elites as a great list of the big figures in the New World Order, as an elaboration on who exactly is behind this ruling power structure that is so deserving of a divorce.: The people behind this group suggest a different, yet not exclusive, way of fighting globalization -- sustainable agriculture.
: One of the most powerful ways the New World Order exercises power over us all is in arranging a divorce between our livelihoods and the way our food is grown. If we are rendered powerless to grow our own food, we can be starved out, and when one-sixth of the world's population suffers from chronic malnutrition, this isn't so distant a possibility, is it?
EC:
I, too, envision a world of agrarian sustainability. But too few people in western capitalist countries are even aware that food comes from the ground instead of the supermarket. In "third world countries" (I hate that phrase) many people can remember that the land was their subsistence (and is the source of all of our subsistence), in the days before the factory and urban blight. Most of the factories get favorable water 'rights' and choice lands to pollute. But until the working people of the world unite and take back what rightly belongs to them, it will be difficult or impossible to have sustainable agriculture. You cannot grow much food in the parking lot of the factory, or in contaminated soil.
Unfortunately this is the reality of too much of the planet, and it is my feeling that the union organizing must precede any agrarian society.
So lets keep our vision of the future even as we concentrate on the job at hand today, and we will truly build a new society in the ashes of the old!
Mike, The Everett Citizen
