za of United Students Against Sweatshops, said that Obama is wrong by saying that G-20 protestors have too abstract ideas in terms of their opposition to G-20.

Another speaker is talking about Burma changing from being the rice bowl of Asia to being a country used for Russia and other countries which use that money to fund their military. She also said we must stand with Honduras. The militarization of our country is something we must address, in terms of our prisons. Our military is used to give our natipn its increasing access to the world's resources. -UN should distribute funds of G-20 to cancel Third World debt

Now Priva Hang ' andu of the organizatipn called Jubilee Zambia is speaking. Poor countries need to be part of decision-making. US has suppoerted repressive regime in the Congo. Why should South Africa service a debt that was used against its people. The developed world must stop extracting resources from poor countries. We must end double standards, in terms of policies toward poor countries. We must stop subsidizing agriculture of rich countries. We need better definitions for development. Stop forcing poor countries into debt.

Helena Wong is now speaking. She is working with a group called , as an acronym , CAAAV. She is telling stories about individuals and families experiencing hardship caused by, according to her, by "corporate and capitalist elites" have denied so many a place at the table.

While in Pittsburgh for the G-20, I have bee hearing about the US Social Forum. Being here for the G-20, I am convinced that meeting with other activists around the nation and around the world , face to face has value. As I type, I am at an event called the People's Tribunal. It is across the river from the down-town area where there is a heavy police presence. This meeting is one of the activist gatherings that did not get shut down by police. I came here to have meaningful interaction. I did not have a sense of what was getting accomplished in the streets of downtown Pittsburgh amidst the shouting and chanting. I invite Free Press readers to give their answer to that question. My guess is that taking better care of each other and of the planet requires a variety of tools, one of them being protest , civil disobedience and other forms of dissenting from the conventional wisdom. But also a valuable tool are get togethers outside the arena of street protests, per se--meetings such as this People's Tribunal.