As Seattle showed, working families do not accept the notion that there is no alternative. There is another vision, another world. Citizens of conscience across the world are beginning to object. Students are organizing against sweatshops. Women are marching against violence.
Children rise to reclaim their childhood.
Sensible economists are dissenting from the conservative catechism. At these meetings, in this moment, at this place, it is vital that we that we lay specific plans to raise the heat. That we share ideas to insure that no one shall divide us, North against South, rich nation against poor nation. The global economy that the corporations have forged can only be tamed by the international solidarity of working families everywhere. For the AFL-CIO, Seattle marked a turning.