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.
Capitalism is bankrupt.
Globalisation is merely the continuation of colonisation, with the transfer of wealth from the South to the North. Even the call of some, such as Wilson, for institutions of international governance must be carefully evaluated, as such institutions may be simply attempts by the North to control the game by other means. The Jubilee tradition provides an alternative. It requires from governments, corporations and academics a greater responsibility for the global human community, and renewed ethical values, especially in the economic sphere. The discussion revolved mainly around dealing with the negative side of capitalism, and whether this negativity meant that the best strategy was to work within the system, or outside it.