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Thread #33466   Message #448705
Posted By: simon-pierre
24-Apr-01 - 11:12 PM
Thread Name: Quebec City Protest of Free Trade.
Subject: RE: Quebec City Protest of Free Trade.
Yeah, thanks Mick for your thoughts on radicals - and your support. I guess I am one, but I was at the point where I didn't anything, because I was tired to see demonstrations where we were at max two hundred, and often for limitate goals - students who wants more money in education; syndicate who protect their rights, etc. It is noble, but what we saw this weekend is a huge raising of people - mostly youth, as I thought it was impossible only two years ago - with very globals views. It is a struggle for democracy, for the earth, for a global solidarity, against the FTAA, but also and most of all against the merchandizing of the world. This is a little idealist, but we need thoughts that transcends our concretes purposes.

This weekend galvanised me. Now I know I can't stay home - I must return "on the front", to continue the struggle, even if events like this may not reappears. I know we're right.

Yours
Simon-Pierre