The Costs of Admission to the Club October 99 About Subscribe Now October Index Current Issue Current Pieces Back Issues National AFSC NERO Office American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Rooted in Quaker values and informed by AFSC experience and initiatives, Peacework offers a forum for organizers, fostering coalition-building and teaching the methods and strategies that work in the global and local community. The new trade system requires states to divest themselves of any public resources.
Privatization is the rule.
Around the world states put up their utilities, national resources, land, and labor to the highest bidder regardless of origin. Transnational corporations bought up national electric companies, public transportation, forest reserves, and resorts. The ownership of the earth shifted hands dramatically. Indigenous people were pushed off their reserves, out of their cultures, and recruited as a cheap labor force by the new landlords. In the US, public hospitals closed their doors, government financial and research institutions relinquished their control to private corporations, public transport has almost disappeared.