since large-scale co-op alliances are about the only hope people in the global poverty zone have of standing up to multinational corporate extortion(extortion that is used to force people in those countries to accept the lowest possible prices for their export goods and crops, and the lowest wages, and the fewest number of people being employed to earn those low wages).

We also need to work for a democratic takeover of decisions involving global finance...because as long as the international credit agencies are controlled by forces demanding short-term massive rate of return on credit and investment, no form of humane economics or socially responsible corporate culture will have any chance of prevailing on any level but that of the cosmetic and the advertised.