This comes down to the question of values, and the need to assert a higher value-system than that of the market. Slavery was abolished because the value-system said this must stop. Child labour in the factories and mines of Britain was stopped because people said no, the value system will not allow it. What happened at the WTO meetings in Seattle are symptoms of what we will see increasingly in response to the global economic system. Jubilee 2000 demonstrates however another way of engaging institutions such as the WTO, IMF and World Bank.
Capitalism creates contradictions in people's experience.
Instead, people experience a great contradiction between their leaders' promises of prosperity and the harsh reality of their daily lives. These realities reflect a failure of those who are in power to be accountable to the deep human desire to care for our brothers and sisters in the human community. So we need to raise our voices, organise, resist, campaign and develop alternatives by mobilising broad people's movements. Globalisation is actually the globalisation of poverty. Two-thirds of the world's people live in poverty, Gabriel said.