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Article: Learn from Gandhi, say anti-globalization activists.(Brief Article)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- March 1, 2004
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MUMBAI, INDIA -- The World Social Forum has ended in Mumbai, India, with a call to use "people's power" to counter the consequences of globalization by learning from Mahatma Gandhi, who used non-violent struggle to lead India to independence from Britain.
"To fight globalization, you need to fight the way Mahatma Gandhi fought with the strength of the masses. People's power is a new factor in international politics," India's former president Kocheril Raman Narayanan told tens of thousands of people at the gathering's closing ceremony. "This ...