Last Monday Globalise Resistance was a loose but small coalition. We started a petition against GlaxoSmithKline, and by the end of the week the group had grown into a list of over 200 people. This movement is massive. We must tap into it, mould it and benefit from it, but we must not attempt to dominate it. We discussed our upcoming protests against the GlaxoSmithKline drugs company and the Gap clothes store.
People are really keen to do big stunts.
The meeting split into smaller groups to organise the protests and our travelling arrangements to Genoa. Everyone agreed that we want to establish Globalise Resistance as a group and begin fundraising. Things are rolling. GSK has refused to allow local manufacturers to make cheap copies of its drugs. Its sales of AIDS drugs rose to 1.15 billion last year.