arab nationalism

             HARVEY: The global march against child labor was born in
             a conversation that I had with Kailash Satyarthi-- the very
             charismatic leader of the move to bring children out of
             bonded labor in India-- the head of the South Asian
             KAILASH: We have ample proof that the children are
             being used as slaves. They are bought and sold. They are
             tortured. They are confined to workplace. They are not
             HARVEY: These are kids working in brick kilns, working
             in farms as a part of bonded farm labor, working in granite
             quarries; kids in sexual slavery, or being trafficked across
             national or state boundaries for sexual purposes. Those are
             the kinds of kids that this global march is an effort to
             HARVEY: So we decided that the global march was a way
             by which we could bring international pressure to country
             This was not just a simple protest. Along the way,
             organizers met with community groups like this one to
             try to link local concerns with the March's broader
             goals, which resonate with people in Thailand. They're
             still reeling from the collapse of their currency.
             SULAK: Economic growth must take human dignity, human
             rights, environmental balance, into consideration.
             In the wake of Thailand's financial crisis, Buddhist
             Scholar Sulok Sivaraksa, like many activists, sees
             growing poverty in human rights terms.
             SULAK: We have more prostitutes than monks. We have
             child laborers. We destroy our environment. The people in
             Bangkok itself, 20% live in slums. And many people don't
             even live in the slums, they live under the bridges and so on
             and so forth. And yet people feel these are not human rights
             The Global March is just one new cross-border
             tactic--an illustration of how globalization from above
             leads to a globalized resistance from below.
             KAILASH: But in the case of children, in the case of poor
             people, they have no calculations of
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