NP Genoa

[Doug Millison]

http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2001/07/23/genoa/index.html
"[...] Both Bush and Friedman not only deliberately misrepresented the
protesters and their aims but, more important, misrepresented what the
current form of globalization is doing to the world's poor. Indeed, the
global elite would not be making even the modest gestures they offered over
the weekend to the poor if it were not for the pressures from the protesters
in the rich countries (since they find it easier to ignore -- or shoot --
protesters in the poor countries). [...]"