The World Social Forum 2004, currently being held in Mumbai, India is turning out to be just a place where people can vent their frustrations against Globalization, Americans, War, and everything else. In particular, the anger is against Globalization.
"The WSF, which believes in the possibility of another world, aims at bringing together organisations and social movements to build alliances to create a just world and to oppose imperialist globalisation that leaves the rich richer and the poor even more impoverished," he said. Rediff
But then I got this article by Johan Norberg by via Abhi nahin to kabhi?. Some exerpts
The contrast is especially clear on the Korean peninsula. It�s the same population, with the same culture, just having two very different political and economic systems. In 50 years, one of them went from hunger and poverty to Southern European living standards. The other one is still starving.
Take the discussion that�s going on now in Saudi Arabia about whether women should be allowed to drive, which they can�t legally do now. While it�s unlikely the situation there will change anytime soon, it�s progress just to have the discussion. People are saying it�s extremely costly to hire drivers, often from other countries, to drive women around. You can see how basic economics, basic capitalism, creates the incentive to give women more rights.
I think WSF should announce what their plan would be to generate employment, uplift people from poverty, create prosperity and the like. Just shouting anti-Bush slogans and assuming that the world will change is basically living in a fool's paradise.
Comments (10)
Glad you brought this up, JK. I've already frisked the Resident Idiot, who has written about this WSF passionately on Rediff. Here's the url:
of the article
BTW, I'm still working on that John Laxmi article.
Posted by Sandeep | January 18, 2004 7:57 PM
Posted on January 18, 2004 19:57
Whoops! I didn't know html code doesn't work in your comment box. Anyway, here it is:http://sandeep.blog-city.com/read/439189.htm
Posted by Sandeep | January 18, 2004 7:58 PM
Posted on January 18, 2004 19:58
Sandeep, you should get an RSS feed for your blog. My Newsreader does not pick it up automatically and so I am missing all these gems from you.
Posted by JK | January 18, 2004 8:18 PM
Posted on January 18, 2004 20:18
Sorry, but I don't know how the RSS feed works. Moreover, I'm using the free service and don't know if I can get the RSS feed. It'd help if you could throw some pointers to lead me on.
Posted by Sandeep | January 19, 2004 9:10 PM
Posted on January 19, 2004 21:10
Sandeep, Try this site http://syndication.php-homepage.de/rssify/
I dont know if it will work well with blog-city which you are using.
Posted by JK | January 19, 2004 9:22 PM
Posted on January 19, 2004 21:22
MAdhu Kishwar seems to have borrowed your ideas. Read about her piece on my blog.
Posted by Yazad | January 19, 2004 10:24 PM
Posted on January 19, 2004 22:24
JK,
Unfortunately, Blog City doesn't support this. Any other alternatives?
Posted by Sandeep | January 20, 2004 8:47 PM
Posted on January 20, 2004 20:47
Yazad: Saw the post. I am following it up with another post soon.
Sandeep: That was the only one I could find. I use MovableType and RSS feed comes with it, so I am clueless on the rest.
Posted by JK | January 20, 2004 9:52 PM
Posted on January 20, 2004 21:52
JK, I got my RSS feed at last: http://sandeep.blog-city.com/rss/default.rss
Let me know if this works for you.
Posted by Sandeep | January 21, 2004 3:02 AM
Posted on January 21, 2004 03:02
sandeep, checkout blogstreet, very simple to operate. I've gotten syndication complete with an xml image.
Posted by Sk | January 21, 2004 6:28 AM
Posted on January 21, 2004 06:28