What Democracy Looks Like.(Brief Article)

Virtually all the leaders who met in Quebec to expand trade were democratically elected, while `the people' in the streets clamoring for `justice' were self-appointed or paid union activists.

--THOMAS FRIEDMAN, New York Times, April 24, 2001

Last month representatives from 34 countries gathered in Quebec City to discuss the Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA), a hemisphere-wide version of NAFTA that if implemented would create the world's largest free trade zone. Somewhere between 30,000 and 40,000 protesters descended on the Canadian City to demonstrate against the ...

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