These past few days have been kind of hard, and sobering but also a real shock to me. I may write on this last experience later.
For now, I've been reading the writings of Naomi Klein on her site -nologo.org. These articles on the globalisation movement that I've recently read are actually written a few years back-2000 the supposed turn of the milennium, and among the oldest in her site's archive. However the information is still relevant as the conditions in the world haven't improved at all but only worsened, regarding globalisation, the continued domination and exploitation of poor countriesby large corporations.
The selected articles are: the growing resistance from different groups and reasons for their strong anger against the WTO, the IMF and the global capitalism they seek to spread, the resistance against the WorldBank and IMF in Prague and the (valid) reasons why ex-communist subjects would feel so much anger against the introduction of free-market capitalism and supposed prosperity,
why the UN is unable to really help in dealing with human-rights, the environment and workers in the world because of its growing involvement with those same corporations that are themselves the cause so much of this injustice,
a case where a supposed good use of genetically-modified crop actually covers up for the exploitation of poor farmers and peasants,
On a local note, this concerns the activists involved in the riot that broke out between homeless protestors and police outside of Queen's Park in 2000, and about the way that OCAP (Ontario Coalition against Poverty) operates and the challenges involved , by considering homeless not as helpness or mere statistics, but actual individuals fully capable of speech and thought.
Naomi Klein is a fine writer and social activist, and wrote for the Globe and Mail (which most of these articles first appeared).
With more like her, people in society might actually become fully aware of how unjust western society is (not for most of those living in it, but for the rest of the world).

Anyhow, moving on to the World Social Forum,a massive meeting involving workshops, lectures and seminars by a diverse range of NGOs and groups and movements on women's rights, anti-corporate, environmental, worker-rights and poor people, which was held early this year January 16-21 in India, here is a critique of the event , with a description of what went on and how the forum can improve on.
Finally, a posting on the blog of noted intellectual, Noam Choamsky on the vast social differences existing in India, especially between the high-tech centers and the surrounding countrysides.