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08/05/2004:
"Campaigners for global justice must take a leaf out of Greenpeace's book and consider direct action"
Guardian UK..."We've published a report cataloguing 234 protests in 34 countries in the south. What you see going on in the north is only the tip of the iceberg. Most of the world is opposed to the corporate invasions of their country.
"What is encouraging is that we are living through the birth of the biggest, most unprecedented mass movement in history, the global justice movement.
"A hundred thousand people from around the globe are attending the world social forums and realising that what links our, admittedly smaller, problems in Europe - work insecurity, climate change, privatisation of public services - is the same model of corporate control. They pay a higher price, but we are all victims."
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