S11: This is what democracy Looks Like
Channel: Green Left
Date: 2015-04-10

On September 11, 12 & 13, 2000 in Melbourne Australia, 20,000 progressive activists surrounded and blockaded the Crown Casino where the World Economic Forum (WEF) was being held. The WEF is made up of more than 960 government and financial organisations making it the wealthiest, most powerful transnational corporation on the planet. It sets the political, economic and social agenda for Neo Liberalism's policy which is about maximising their ability to make as much profit as they see fit by getting governments to remove any barriers that inhibits this greed. This impacts on the lives of billions of people keeping them in poverty while the corporations enrich themselves even further. A severe case of corporate greed.
It is with this in mind that 20,000 political and progressive Australian activists converged on Melbourne's Casino and spent three days attempting to prevent the smooth proceedings from going ahead. here's what happened...

"You have the right to protest if it doesn't fringe on my right to exploit the earth and its people."
Human Need Not Corporate Greed

This documentary was produced by Actively Radical TV in 2000 and is published by GLTV for historical purposes and is part of a range of documentaries we will be hosting from our radical past.