September 29, 1999

“Peoples must struggle to protect not just their economy, their rights; they must struggle to defend their very survival.  The environment is being swept away, it’s being destroyed.  Only one year ago, Mitch went through Central America with devastating results, and now we see pictures of colossal floods, a visible climatic change that nobody can deny any more.  Who does this hit before anybody else? The poorest countries, the countries of the Third World.”