Are Western Protestors Working in the Best Interest of Developing Nations?
INTERVIEWER: We’ve talked to the president of Tanzania, to some senior officials from India, to others in the developing countries. A lot of them have serious problems with the WTO protests and anti-globalization. They say: “These NGOs and these protestors moving against globalization aren’t really speaking for us. We want to be a part of the global economy; we just want to have a level playing field. But we need this to involve our people and our economy.” What’s your sense of that, when they say that people like you, with the best intentions, do not have the interests of these people in developing countries at heart, and that you’re working against their interests? LORI WALLACH: After the WTO’s “Globalization is inevitable” campaign, our public relations started to fail. The next unified campaign [by] the proponents of the status quo was that all critics of this system are against the poor, and they’re all greedy and they’re rich and they’re trying to maintain their happy rich-countr
