Free trade is not leading to freedom. It is leading to slavery.
Diverse life forms are being enslaved through patents on life, farmers are being enslaved into high-tech slavery,
and countries are being enslaved into debt and dependence and destruction of their domestic economies.
We want a new millennium based on economic democracy, not economic totalitarianism.
The future is possible for humans and other species only
if the principles of competition, organised greed,
commodification of all life, monocultures, monopolies and centralised global corporate control of our daily lives enshrined
in the WTO are replaced by the principles of protection of people and nature, the obligation of giving and sharing diversity,
and the decentralisation and self-organisation enshrined in our diverse cultures and national constitutions.
- Vandana Shiva, The Historic Significance of Seattle
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