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August 16, 2003

Listen to Vandana Shiva

Vananda Shiva, photographer by Linda WolfThe following keynote address was presented on 10 September, 2000, at the Global Capitalism, Local Responses seminar (hosted by the Stegley Foundation and RMIT University’s School of Social Science and Planning) on the eve of the World Economic Forum’s Asia Pacific Summit.

http://www.abc.net.au/specials/shiva/audio.htm, (you'll need RealPlayer) on ABC radio from Australia.

QUOTE:
"And then the person who’s really won out in this game of globalisation — George Soros — he was there too, and this is what he said.

"He said: “free markets were supposed to have created open societies, free societies, but we cannot speak of the triumph of democracy. Capitalism and political freedom do not go hand in hand. We cannot leave freedom and democracy to market forces. We need to create our own institutions and different institutions from those that serve capitalism to take care of it.

"“And anyone,” this is not my words, it’s not your words, it’s George Soros’, “who thinks they can leave freedom to free markets is a market fundamentalist, that’s not how societies work”.

"So we have gone a long way since Seattle. And on the one hand those who think a little, reflect a little — like Soros and Gorbachev — are saying it turned out different from what it was projected to be. "

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