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"Agribusiness is not sustainable,
it is just another form of concentrating income"
Sebastião Salgado, Brazilian photographer
“We must join political parties.”
Roberto Savio, member of the WSF`s International
Committee
“The movement should not become a political party.”
Susan George, Vice-President of Attac-France.
“What we have not done so well so far is to include
the truly dispossessed in our ranks.”
Susan George, Vice-President of Attac-France.
“The WSF is the world’s most important political
event.”
Hugo Chávez, President of Venezuela
“The World Economic Forum and the World Social Forum
share the obligation to explore their common goals.”
José María Figueres, managing
director of WEF (Davos)
"The most important vision of another possible world
was the Universal Declaration of Human Rights".
Ignácio Saiz, Amnesty International
"I really hate that everybody feels that a war in Iraq
affects our energies to continue to work on poverty issues"
Eveline Hertkens, UN secretary-general's
coordinator for the UN millennium development goals.
"El déficit estadounidense es un poderoso símbolo
de lo que está mal con la ‘globalización’
y con los desequilibrios causados por un atracón de
créditos."
Ann Pettifor, economista británica,
directora de Jubilee Research.
"That is a new global relationship between countries
that promote the weak rather than the strong"
Martin Khor, Third World Network
"Es necesario prestar atención a Africa y a los
países pobres de otros continentes."
Luiz Inácio da Silva, presidente
de Brasil.
"Não tivemos aviso de que iríamos perder
nossa biodiversidade e nossas sementes puras. Não temos
mais sementes orgânicas e estamos destruídos".
Percy Schmeiser, fazendeiro canadense
que luta contra a Monsanto.
"É uma bobagem pautar-se pelo mercado"
Eliezer Pachero, ex Secretario de Educação
do Porto Alegre.
"Richer countries need to fulfill the promise of a Development
Round"
Supachai Panitchpakdi, Director/General
of the World Trade Organisation.
"É hora de fazer um contrato mundial para salvar
o mundo da guerra e da recessão".
Mário Soares, eurodeputado e ex
presidente de Portugal.
"Toda vez que o capitalismo teve crises prolongadas,
sempre apelou para a guerra e para a indústria bélica
como forma de recuperar seu processo de acumulação
de capital".
João Pedro Stedile, dirigente do
MST, da Via Campesina-Brasil e membro do Comitê Organizador
do FSM.
"Religious fundamentalism is the most dangerous evil
we have today".
Sherif Herata, activist from Egypt.
"The global media is to global capitalism what (Christian)
missionaries were to (European) colonialism".
Susanna George, executive director of
ISIS women's information network.
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