MetaFilter posts tagged with globalization and worldeconomicforum

A blog for everyone in Davos

nyterrant — Fri, 06 Jan 2006 23:21:12 -0800

A blog for everyone in Davos. "Every participant of the Annual Meeting – ranging from business leaders to political leaders, heads of NGOs, religious leaders academics and journalists – will be asked to join the Forum blog...All of the more than 2,000 participants, including presidents and prime ministers, will be asked to provide at least one posting for the blog."

lagado — Mon, 02 Oct 2000 18:56:55 -0800

Here is an interesting account of S11 written by a journalist who went to protest on his day off. More inside...

murray_kester — Sun, 10 Sep 2000 15:53:30 -0800

It's odd that people reacting against globalisation should try to stop the forum meeting in Melbourne this week. It is working to solve the problems they are protesting against, warns the Swiss intellectual who is founder and president of the World Economic Forum.

johnb — Thu, 07 Sep 2000 02:25:02 -0800

What's wrong with corporate globalization? And why protest on s11? -- "If that is the future the World Economic Forum is pushing us towards, it's not a future we want to go to. There are no unions, the working conditions are appalling, the living conditions are appalling and there is an appalling environmental situation."